Maxroam (aka Roam4Free V2)

[ygeffens]

Originally Posted by bbob

As for the quality. When they as ygeffens said have direct sim without number. Still they will have incoming did numbers through the internet connect to their system, that they would have to connect to the sim on whichever network.
In case of say a USA did number the call goes through the interent fro the USA to their server, than their server connect to the server of the sim providers that routes the call to the network on which the sim is logged in.
I don't really see a difference here with the pbxes solution.
USA DID connects to pbxes sever, pbxes calls the number and gets connected.

MAXroam
Call USA DID -> internet (from USA LEX to MAXroam-servers) -> SIM

PBXes
Call USA DID -> internet (from USA LEX to pbxes.org) -> use VSP (over internet) to forward to UK Cellphone number (eg UM+) = SIM

MAXroam's call travels over the internet once, the other example twice. Right? Correct me if I'm wrong.

PBXes has a different setup. It has a failover system, but then it becomes very slow. When something goes wrong with the uplink that MAXroam is using their ISP will automatically switch to another route, without changing anything in the configuration of the servers. That way the chance that a DID becomes unavailable is rather small, and the speed of the server is not affected (unlike what happens with PBXes because all users are transferred from one server to another).

Anyway. Every system has it's pro's and it's con's.
Professionally, I'll use MAXroam, for other things I might use PBXes (or it's equivalents).
I'm saying this without knowing MAXroams call quality, so actually I'm talking about the setup, not the specific service (MAXroam in this example).