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Davesnothere
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Re: Where are the SERVERS ? - Summary

 
Thank You for the additions !

AFAIK, Failover for VOIP.MS can be done manually by the customer by changing the setups in the web portal and customer's ATA, and apparently also manually by DNS 'A' reassignment of individual server locations' traffic by the company if required, such as during the recent Sandystorm which hit NYC, and they have a diesel generator and UPS backup at least in the NYC data centre.

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CallWithUs (link added Nov 3)

CWU is apparently based in Florida, but servers are :

»Re: WHO is UP-DOWN during Sandy

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ANVEO is apparently based in Philadelphia, PA - SIP Servers are in Dallas TX USA, Montreal Canada, and Nuremberg Germany.

Automatic Failover is done by DNS SRV - You choose your Primary SIP Server both in your ATA (server names) as well as in their portal in a tab called 'Geo POP', which is found when you go : Phone Numbers > Manage Phone Numbers > Edit (configurable for each phone number)

Not sure of their power protections, but if the DNS SRV is enabled at your device and it functions as stated, then that is a large part of a working solution.

The most recently revised device setup screenshot on their website is for PAP2T, which shows the DNS SRV settings, and a link back to a DSLR thread for explanation.

Anveo has just added (Oct 30th) a STATUS UPDATE BAR inside of their portal, including a link to a further page for more details.

Thanks Arne, for the extra info immediately below.

Arne Bolen
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ANVEO

Anveo provides Geo. Redundant SIP Servers (POPs) in USA, Canada and Germany.

Anveo infrastructure is hosted in 4 Tier-1 data centers:

• Softlayer, Dallas, USA
• Colo4, Dallas, USA
• Cologix, Montreal, Canada
• Hetzner, Nuremberg, Germany

All data centers are equipped with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units and generator backup.

Anveo infrastructure was designed from the beginning to support failover. That allows Anveo to effectively load balance/failover resources across the World.

Their carrier has automated SIP Monitoring in place which provides automatic failover at carrier level as well.

Anveo users can register their ATAs/IP Phones with ANY Anveo POP (Point of Presence) while routing their Anveo phone numbers through a different Anveo POP and still be able to make/receive calls.

Anveo Voicemail is not tied to any particular POP and users will NOT lose access to their voicemails when switching between Anveo POPs.

Plus Anveo supports DNS_SRV which allow ATAs to automatically failover between POPs without loosing any service.
w1ve
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Re: Where are the SERVERS ? - Summary

said by Davesnothere:

 
Thank You for the additions !

AFAIK, Failover for VOIP.MS can be done manually by the customer by changing the setups in the web portal and customer's ATA, and apparently also manually by DNS 'A' reassignment of individual server locations' traffic by the company if required, such as during the recent Sandystorm which hit NYC, and they have a diesel generator and UPS backup at least in the NYC data centre.

Thanks Arne, for the further details immediately below.

Actually, voip.ms keeps images of each site, and can bring any site up anywhere by using BGP. So, newyork.voip.ms can be rerouted to come up in a server in LA -- without DNS changes.

SpaethCo
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said by w1ve:

Actually, voip.ms keeps images of each site, and can bring any site up anywhere by using BGP. So, newyork.voip.ms can be rerouted to come up in a server in LA -- without DNS changes.

At the risk of being labeled a voip.ms hater for correcting this, actually what you've stated here isn't true for them.

Their servers are in the middle of shared address space advertised by their hosting suppliers. The smallest route that will be accepted on the public Internet is a /24, so for that to ever happen all other server customers on those subnets would have to move facilities with them.

They can recover using DNS as was originally stated, and that is a perfectly valid recovery method that is used by nearly every company in the industry from Amazon to Zappos. While maintaining the IP address does present benefits for things like firewall rules, it presents complications with concurrent operations and testing failover scenarios that ultimately make the option LESS reliable than simple DNS failover.
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Well, I'm NOT a networking expert, so excuse my ignorance on my statement -- it was based on what some of the voip.ms team has stated. But I do know VoIP well. 3+ years with voip.ms without any real issues. 99% of the time on the NYC server, the rest on the LA server.