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Published inJul 2016
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Darren Schreiber
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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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Support, redundancy, high availability, and number portability


In this last section we accumulate all the "oh so obvious" issues that can make your life as an ITSP customer very unpleasant.

What is the support policy of your candidate ITSP? How long does it take to be connected with a knowledgeable person? How knowledgeable is that person? What about nights, weekends, holidays?

And also, what kind of monitoring and operation system do they have? Are they able to immediately come up with the SIP trace of the call you have a problem with? Or do they want you to provide the trace?

How are non-critical tickets serviced, like feature request or reconfiguration of features?

How does your potential ITSP handle their own infrastructure failure? What kind of High Availability architecture have they implemented? What if its datacenter got cut out from you or destroyed? Do they have a parallel datacenter? Do they depend on a single upstream provider for their connectivity? In case of an outage, you'll...

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Published in: Jul 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781784398880

Authors (8)

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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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