What Is VoIP Peering?

I use to play a simulation called Falcon 4.0 in the late nineties and I use to play it online with friends and we would fly missions together. We would stay in touch with each other in the virtual skies using a little comms program called Roger Wilco. It would allow us to stay in touch with each other and coordinate attacks and such. unbeknownst to me I was using VoIP peering and didn't even know it. Peering is when two or more VoIP products gets together and 'talks' with each other. It could be a SIP based phone-to-phone call, a phone-to-computer running MSN Messenger, or a computer-to-computer using Skype for example. It is also when the telephone system is bypassed to complete the call. So to be VoIP peering you need two things in place. First you have to bypass the traditional phone system and second the call needs to be placed between two VoIP devices.

DIDX.net is poised to offer VoIP peering with ALL its numbers that are in use. DIDX.net is able to do this because all of its DIDs terminate on SIP (or AIX2) phones, devices, or other computers running the required software.

Buying DIDs 1-2-3

Buying DID numbers just got easier with the help of VoipSwitch's VSPortal. They have incorporated the DIDX API into their VSPortal making the buying of DID numbers that much simpler, I've embedded the video of it above for those who wish to watch it. It is a short video that get to the point.

Like most sites it starts off with you submitting you user name and password. You then choose a location and the portal will give you availability by area code and price. You pick the numbers you want from the inventory listed and they show in your local inventory ready to use. It really can't be much easier than that.

Vertical Or Horizontal?

Today I was asked if didx.net was in a vertical or horizontal market and I was not sure of the answer. One hand we will buy and sell phone numbers through the thousands of CLEC's and independent businesses we deal with daily. That would be the vertical market. The horizontal market , on the other hand consists of the variety of customers we have, i.e. a steel fabricator or small hotel. Since I'm not sure, I''ll just look up the differences and decide for myself.

According to the Wikipedia a vertical market is " a group of similar businesses and customers which engage in trade based on specific and specialized needs." While we have a wide range of customers they do have one thing in common. They all have a softswitch in place.

On the other side is the horizontal market and here is what Wikipedia says."A horizontal market is a market which meets a given need of a wide variety of industries, rather than a specific one." I just don't see didx.net as falling into this catagory. Given we do have a wide range of customers to work with they all need that 'softswitch' to buy and sell from us so I have to go with didx.net is in a vertical market.

A Good Post

An article I read titled "Defensively Installing A VoIP Telephone Adapter" makes for a good, quick read. If you are looking at getting a Vonage type of service I would give this article a look-see first