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Can anyone recommend a good quality US-based SIP provider? (twilio is OK, but I need to connect physical Cisco phones) I'd like to port my phone numbers from g

by csdvrx 4y ago

Can anyone recommend a good quality US-based SIP provider? (twilio is OK, but I need to connect physical Cisco phones) I'd like to port my phone numbers from google, as I'm afraid the migration of the free domain may cost me my phone number in case of shenanigans (like google voice being considered separate of google mail etc)

js2 4y ago
I've been happy with Anveo for years now.
mandrill 4y ago
twilio has a few competitors--telnyx, bandwidth, plivo, vonage just name a few that you can port a number to for SIP.
anderiv 4y ago
10-year business customer of https://voip.ms/ https://voip.ms/ here. I have nothing but great things to say about their service itself, its reliability, and their support. It's also very inexpensive for what you get.
- toast0 4y ago
  Technically, voip.ms is CA based, not US based. But they've got a lot of US infrastructure.
  - anderiv 4y ago
    You’re absolutely right. Thanks for the correction!
F00Fbug 4y ago
Callcentric provides a bunch of features for a great price. I ported over my two landlines over 10 years ago and love it. When my mom moved to a new state, I ported her number first so she could keep that number in her new place. If you're actively managing a large number of users and devices, I had great luck with OnSIP. They're not the cheapest game in town, but their management interface is top notch. They were always innovating and the architecture they disclosed was impressive; very focused on HA and performance.
leitess 4y ago
I've had success with anveo.com, using softphone zoiper.
michael_michael 4y ago
I hate to be that guy, but if you don't mind being a Linux sysadmin you might consider running your own Asterisk server. I do that for my SMB with about a dozen physical sets, and use Twilio for SIP trunking. I followed the first 10 chapters or so of the O'Reilly Asterisk book making a few changes here and there to suit my preferences (different Linux flavor, different DB). I run a $10/month Digital Ocean droplet that hosts the Asterisk server. If you can deal with config files, you can have a rock-solid PBX with Enterprise-grade features for the cost of the server + Twilio's SIP trunking features. It ends up costing about $25 every 1.5 months or so. I barely ever think about it, except when I need to tweak a greeting for holiday hours or something.
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  Asterisk is a huge pile of C code with lots of legacy crap. I wouldn't trust having it exposed to the Internet.
  - catherd 4y ago
    Linux kernel, apache, nginx, redis... better get off the internet.
csharpminor 4y ago
FYI Twilio has a few guides on how to connect their SIP trunking product to Cisco SBCs: CUCM: https://twilio-cms-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/InteropGuide_Twilio_vCiscoUBE_CiscoUCM_Final_1.1.pdf https://twilio-cms-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/InteropGu... ISR: https://www.twilio.com/docs/sip-trunking/sample-configuration#cisco https://www.twilio.com/docs/sip-trunking/sample-configuratio... They also have a porting process you can use to migrate your numbers from GV/Bandwidth (or you can just buy a Twilio number for $1).
- csdvrx 4y ago
  Very interesting, thanks a lot!
somat 4y ago
I run an asterisk server trunking out to the outside world via a unitel trunk and I am pretty happy with the setup. unitel has so far provided a no nonsense straight forward service(it is ~ 3 dollars a month for regulatory fees and fractional cents per minute for calls), I just needed to figure out how to set up asterisk(and I enjoy that sort of thing) https://www.unitelvoice.com/sip-trunking https://www.unitelvoice.com/sip-trunking

by csdvrx 4y ago

js2 4y ago

I've been happy with Anveo for years now.

mandrill 4y ago

twilio has a few competitors--telnyx, bandwidth, plivo, vonage just name a few that you can port a number to for SIP.

anderiv 4y ago

10-year business customer of https://voip.ms/ https://voip.ms/ here. I have nothing but great things to say about their service itself, its reliability, and their support. It's also very inexpensive for what you get.

toast0 4y ago
Technically, voip.ms is CA based, not US based. But they've got a lot of US infrastructure.
- anderiv 4y ago
  You’re absolutely right. Thanks for the correction!

F00Fbug 4y ago

Callcentric provides a bunch of features for a great price. I ported over my two landlines over 10 years ago and love it. When my mom moved to a new state, I ported her number first so she could keep that number in her new place. If you're actively managing a large number of users and devices, I had great luck with OnSIP. They're not the cheapest game in town, but their management interface is top notch. They were always innovating and the architecture they disclosed was impressive; very focused on HA and performance.

leitess 4y ago

I've had success with anveo.com, using softphone zoiper.

michael_michael 4y ago

I hate to be that guy, but if you don't mind being a Linux sysadmin you might consider running your own Asterisk server. I do that for my SMB with about a dozen physical sets, and use Twilio for SIP trunking. I followed the first 10 chapters or so of the O'Reilly Asterisk book making a few changes here and there to suit my preferences (different Linux flavor, different DB). I run a $10/month Digital Ocean droplet that hosts the Asterisk server. If you can deal with config files, you can have a rock-solid PBX with Enterprise-grade features for the cost of the server + Twilio's SIP trunking features. It ends up costing about $25 every 1.5 months or so. I barely ever think about it, except when I need to tweak a greeting for holiday hours or something.

Nextgrid 4y ago
Asterisk is a huge pile of C code with lots of legacy crap. I wouldn't trust having it exposed to the Internet.
- catherd 4y ago
  Linux kernel, apache, nginx, redis... better get off the internet.

csharpminor 4y ago

FYI Twilio has a few guides on how to connect their SIP trunking product to Cisco SBCs: CUCM: https://twilio-cms-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/InteropGuide_Twilio_vCiscoUBE_CiscoUCM_Final_1.1.pdf https://twilio-cms-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/InteropGu... ISR: https://www.twilio.com/docs/sip-trunking/sample-configuration#cisco https://www.twilio.com/docs/sip-trunking/sample-configuratio... They also have a porting process you can use to migrate your numbers from GV/Bandwidth (or you can just buy a Twilio number for $1).

csdvrx 4y ago
Very interesting, thanks a lot!

somat 4y ago

I run an asterisk server trunking out to the outside world via a unitel trunk and I am pretty happy with the setup. unitel has so far provided a no nonsense straight forward service(it is ~ 3 dollars a month for regulatory fees and fractional cents per minute for calls), I just needed to figure out how to set up asterisk(and I enjoy that sort of thing) https://www.unitelvoice.com/sip-trunking https://www.unitelvoice.com/sip-trunking