Twilio as a SIP provider
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@EddieJennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@JaredBusch Thanks for checking, and I have. I'll do one more check of all of my numbers before it's all presented to my bosses.
I would not show specific names and totals to them. It should be presented in terms of % saved per month or $ saved per month. With a generic "SIP Provider" noted.
Because as soon as you show specific names and numbers, you will be stuck with that no matter what you find out after more testing.
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@JaredBusch said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@EddieJennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@JaredBusch Thanks for checking, and I have. I'll do one more check of all of my numbers before it's all presented to my bosses.
I would not show specific names and totals to them. It should be presented in terms of % saved per month or $ saved per month. With a generic "SIP Provider" noted.
Because as soon as you show specific names and numbers, you will be stuck with that no matter what you find out after more testing.
100% agree. Said spreadsheets are for my own calculations.
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@EddieJennings 6/6 is about 7% savings on average, it's not as simple as the way your calcing it.
I have to apologize but Telnyx being outbound at the rights I described above is at over a million minutes per month of usage, which is the last number I paid attention to. So it's on par with voip.ms
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@bigbear said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@EddieJennings 6/6 is about 7% savings on average, it's not as simple as the way your calcing it.
I have to apologize but Telnyx being outbound at the rights I described above is at over a million minutes per month of usage, which is the last number I paid attention to. So it's on par with voip.ms
How ought I calculate it? I took my CDR, which has the actual time of the calls and created two new columns. One column rounded up anything starting at 1 second over the minute to the next minute. The other column took the time and rounded it up to the next 1/10 of a minute. Taking a sum of each column seems like it would give me the total minutes calculated for 60/60 and the total minutes calculated 6/6, which I can then multiply by the rate for the SIP service.
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@EddieJennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@bigbear said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@EddieJennings 6/6 is about 7% savings on average, it's not as simple as the way your calcing it.
I have to apologize but Telnyx being outbound at the rights I described above is at over a million minutes per month of usage, which is the last number I paid attention to. So it's on par with voip.ms
How ought I calculate it? I took my CDR, which has the actual time of the calls and created two new columns. One column rounded up anything starting at 1 second over the minute to the next minute. The other column took the time and rounded it up to the next 1/10 of a minute. Taking a sum of each column seems like it would give me the total minutes calculated for 60/60 and the total minutes calculated 6/6, which I can then multiply by the rate for the SIP service.
That is exactly how you calculate it.
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Unless @bigbear is talking about my "normal" month estimate. I don't have CDR before the toll fraud started, so I made an estimate based on the proportion of 60/60 and 6/6 minutes from my last bill.
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@EddieJennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
Unless @bigbear is talking about my "normal" month estimate. I don't have CDR before the toll fraud started, so I made an estimate based on the proportion of 60/60 and 6/6 minutes from my last bill.
Most likely he assumed you did not calculate as you did. Most people cannot figure it out even once explained. I cannot count how many times I have done this.
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@EddieJennings you did it correctly then
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Debated on making a new topic, but I figure since I enjoy playing necromancers in D&D, I'd resurrect this.
After much gnashing of teeth and the kind @JaredBusch taking the time to help verify that, in fact, you really can terminate calls with Twilio and FreePBX, I figured out the problem:
Credentials.
Bloody credentials.
To those who play with Twilio, know that the username used for trunk authentication is case-sensitive. Though, I'm still blown away that this was even a problem, as I was copying / pasting credentials with my test; however, I confirmed that calls can be terminated and verified that the username is case-sensitive. Oh well, my pride will recover, and as a result my company will probably save an additional $10 / month on SIP service.
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I live in UNIX, I assume everything is case sensitive
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@eddiejennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
Debated on making a new topic, but I figure since I enjoy playing necromancers in D&D, I'd resurrect this.
After much gnashing of teeth and the kind @JaredBusch taking the time to help verify that, in fact, you really can terminate calls with Twilio and FreePBX, I figured out the problem:
Credentials.
Bloody credentials.
To those who play with Twilio, know that the username used for trunk authentication is case-sensitive. Though, I'm still blown away that this was even a problem, as I was copying / pasting credentials with my test; however, I confirmed that calls can be terminated and verified that the username is case-sensitive. Oh well, my pride will recover, and as a result my company will probably save an additional $10 / month on SIP service.
I learned this lesson in SSIDs a few years ago - I feel your pain!
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@eddiejennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
Debated on making a new topic, but I figure since I enjoy playing necromancers in D&D, I'd resurrect this.
After much gnashing of teeth and the kind @JaredBusch taking the time to help verify that, in fact, you really can terminate calls with Twilio and FreePBX, I figured out the problem:
Credentials.
Bloody credentials.
To those who play with Twilio, know that the username used for trunk authentication is case-sensitive. Though, I'm still blown away that this was even a problem, as I was copying / pasting credentials with my test; however, I confirmed that calls can be terminated and verified that the username is case-sensitive. Oh well, my pride will recover, and as a result my company will probably save an additional $10 / month on SIP service.
Terminating calls with FreePBX was weird to figure out, even weirder if you make sub accounts.
There is also the need to have auth but twilio doesn't want you to maintain a registration. Just auth and IP combined. In FusionPBX it was easier to figure out. Took maybe 10 mins of trial and error. I had to get developer support from Twilio.
The one cool thing is you will see in your Twilio console a bug icon at the top right light up whenever a call is denied for termination, along with a bug report that contains SIP details.
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@bigbear said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@eddiejennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
Debated on making a new topic, but I figure since I enjoy playing necromancers in D&D, I'd resurrect this.
After much gnashing of teeth and the kind @JaredBusch taking the time to help verify that, in fact, you really can terminate calls with Twilio and FreePBX, I figured out the problem:
Credentials.
Bloody credentials.
To those who play with Twilio, know that the username used for trunk authentication is case-sensitive. Though, I'm still blown away that this was even a problem, as I was copying / pasting credentials with my test; however, I confirmed that calls can be terminated and verified that the username is case-sensitive. Oh well, my pride will recover, and as a result my company will probably save an additional $10 / month on SIP service.
Terminating calls with FreePBX was weird to figure out, even weirder if you make sub accounts.
There is also the need to have auth but twilio doesn't want you to maintain a registration. Just auth and IP combined. In FusionPBX it was easier to figure out. Took maybe 10 mins of trial and error. I had to get developer support from Twilio.
The one cool thing is you will see in your Twilio console a bug icon at the top right light up whenever a call is denied for termination, along with a bug report that contains SIP details.
It took me less than 10 minutes to setup his trunk on my PBX and make an outbound call. That included reading the Twilio document first and not just winging it.
I set it up once. Did not have to edit. It worked on the first try. So yeah. If you know what you are doing with FreePBX (which you don't or dont' want to) it is trivial.
I used a PJSIP trunk. worked flawlessly.
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Who all is using Twilio as their SIP provider?
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@fateknollogee said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
Who all is using Twilio as their SIP provider?
I have not migrated any clients, because the savings verus the cost to swithc is jsut not worth it.
But I have recommended them to a number of people. -
@jaredbusch said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
I have not migrated any clients, because the savings verus the cost to swithc is jsut not worth it.
But I have recommended them to a number of people.This^^ I have thought about changing a few times, but ultimately our $30/month bill with VoicePulse might shrink to $15 on Twilio? That puts it pretty low on my priority list.
If I were to setup a new service somewhere I'd likely go with Twilio.
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@jaredbusch said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@fateknollogee said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
Who all is using Twilio as their SIP provider?
I have not migrated any clients, because the savings verus the cost to swithc is jsut not worth it.
But I have recommended them to a number of people.How about new clients?
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@fateknollogee said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@jaredbusch said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
@fateknollogee said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
Who all is using Twilio as their SIP provider?
I have not migrated any clients, because the savings verus the cost to swithc is jsut not worth it.
But I have recommended them to a number of people.How about new clients?
I recommend it.
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@fateknollogee said in Twilio as a SIP provider:
Who all is using Twilio as their SIP provider?
We are now, for one client.
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I def like some the available features in the Dashboard.
