[Serusers] VoIP Server's Phone Number Range

[Felipe Martins]

Please, forgive me if I'm making a dumb question, but for what I understood is that every client that has to dial to a number that is not configured at my SER routing Logics, i must be told what it is and the server in order to route the call at SER routing logics. I thought that every voip provider had a certain range ... like Global PSTN network around the world.


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:06:26 +0200
Daniel-Constantin Mierla <daniel at voice-system.ro> wrote:

> On 04/12/05 17:36, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> 
> > Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> >
> >> There is a list with some VoIP service providers, but for sure it is 
> >> not complete:
> >> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Service+Providers
> >>
> >> Anyhow, some of them may not accept calls from foreign networks so 
> >> you should check if you can interconnect. Prefix routing is your 
> >> solution and I guess each provider implements its own numbering and 
> >> prefix allocation policy - I have not heard about any standardization 
> >> in this direction.
> >
> >
> > The routing protocol is ENUM, but only few service providers have ENUM 
> > entries for their number ranges. The problem is that most countries 
> > are still in a "trial" state. There are also private ENUM trees to 
> > benefit from ENUM without paying for the ENUM domains (like e164.info...)
> 
> That will be sometime in future, if ever -- depending on who and how is 
> going to control it -- there are VoIP communities across many countries 
> and would be rather complicated/expensive for the provider to buy 
> numbers from each country. Anyhow, I was talking about current 
> interconnection method, based on prefix, that none has regulated and 
> nobody had tried (afaik) to make kind of agreements to use same prefix 
> for same domain. The bad things is that the business cannot wait until 
> ENUM is adopted in all countries, so you have to live without for a 
> while and then will be pretty hard to teach your customers to adopt new 
> contact numbers and so on.
> 
> >
> >
> > IMO using prefixes is PITA. You need a prefix for every SIP domain 
> > (there will be thousands soon). User has to remember all the prefixes. 
> > That does not scale. This remembers the beginning of the Internet 
> > without DNS where you had to edit the hosts file of your PC.
> >
> > Their are also other mechanisms (like Dundi for asterisk). But ENUM is 
> > the only method where the association between Internet phone numbers 
> > and E.164 phone numbers is validated by a public authority.
> 
> Of course ENUM would be an ideal solution to this, let's see when it 
> will be globally adopted.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> >
> > regards,
> > klaus
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >>
> >>
> >> On 04/12/05 14:58, Felipe Martins wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi guys,
> >>>
> >>> I've made my first full operational SER Server, in fact there are 
> >>> too server talking to each other. When the call is not to another 
> >>> SER server, it forwards to another external server, when the 
> >>> requested number belongs to my other SER Server it go there and 
> >>> close the voip tunnel, just as usual. So, at the moment, I'm 
> >>> implementing my routing logic, in order to implement it well, i need 
> >>> all the phone ranges and their server names or IP to route all the 
> >>> calls to the right server, for example, if a user calls a "1213..." 
> >>> begging phone number, it goes to Go2Call, and so on the all other 
> >>> Phone numbers. Do anybody know where can I find a list of phone 
> >>> number ranges all over the world, I mean, every VoIP server has a 
> >>> certain range, without it my calls will be lost, and they will not 
> >>> end where they were meant to.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in Advance.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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> >
> >
> 


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