2 SIP providers for 1 Vicidial

[chill_master]

Is it possible to have two sip providers for one vicidial server? Like if I have 20 agents doing blended calling, 10 of them pass thru SIP A and then the other 10 pass thru SIP B.

This way, I can minimize my VOIP charges.

[mflorell]

There are ways of doing this, but you need to do some customizations to make that possible.

How exactly would just using two SIP providers lower your VOIP costs?

[chill_master]

Each account in my VOIP provider had max mins of 5100, where I don't need to pay extra charges aside from what I paid for the account setup every time I exceed the max. But on average I get 10,000 mins. So If I have two accounts, I don't have to pay for extra charges. Right now I'm paying $100 on average per month for extra charges.

[mflorell]

The easiest way is actually to send all of the bottom ending numbers[0-4] to one account and the top half ending numbers[5-9] to the other account. You can do this through some pretty simple dialplan logic:

; put this in the first carriers dialplan entry
exten => _91NXXNXXXXX[0-4],1,AGI(agi://127.0.0.1:4577/call_log)
exten => _91NXXNXXXXX[0-4],2,Dial(${TESTSIPTRUNKX}/${EXTEN:2},,tTor)
exten => _91NXXNXXXXX[0-4],3,Hangup

; put this in the second carriers dialplan entry
exten => _91NXXNXXXXX[5-9],1,AGI(agi://127.0.0.1:4577/call_log)
exten => _91NXXNXXXXX[5-9],2,Dial(${TESTSIPTRUNKY}/${EXTEN:2},,tTor)
exten => _91NXXNXXXXX[5-9],3,Hangup

[chill_master]

Gee, I've never thought of that.

This was so easy than I've thought it will be.

Thanks Matt.