Getting Started -> Setting up your first provider

There are 2 types of providers when you are a VSP, these are "Termination Providers" and "Online VSP's":

1) "Termination Providers" - Termination providers are providers who have their own equipment physically connected to the PSTN (POTS) network through a provider such as Verizon, Bell, Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, Etc. These providers generally provide Online VSP's with the ability to wholesale their termination points (where the phone network connects to their equipemnt).

2) "Online VSPs" - Online VSPs are VSP's which have a presnce online only. Such as a server or server cluster hosted in a data center which they intend the general public to access. Online VSPs do not have equipment connected to the PSTN (POTS) network and thus rely on termination providers to take their customers call that final leg into the public telephone network.

What am I?

vspPanel allows you to be either. If you are intent on setting up your own terminations you will however need more knowledge of core asterisk and the Digium hardware available to make the connections. Once you have made your termination points vspPanel will allow you to connect to them and start routing your customers as if you were an online vsp.

The most common use of vspPanel is to manage online vsp's however as these can be setup quickly and usually present a saving on terminating your own traffic unless you have at least several million minutes of voice traffic to pass through a month.

  Lets setup my first provider, who can I use?

Setting up your first provider is really easy in vspPanel. you can use ANY SIP or IAX based provider which means you really have your pick of them. Since vspPanel was designed by FaktorTel lets use them as an example. Here's the steps:

 1) Go to: www.faktortel.com.au

2) Signup for a FREE account from the main page, using the option which says you have your own phone and only want a username / password.

3) Once you receive your username and password open your vspPanel and click on "Modify Providers"

4) Click on the big world with the plus symbol on it to add a new provider.

5) As FaktorTel Uses IAX choose the IAX protocol. (For SIP providers you would choose SIP) and click on Next

6)  Now, you should have been provided with a Username and Password and SIP / IAX address for the provider. Enter these in the appropriate fields. For FaktorTel these would be:

Provider Name: FaktorTel

Host: iax.faktortel.com.au

Username: Your Username

Password: Your Password

Now Leave the rest as per default....

6) Press "Add New Provider"

 7) Your provider should be added and working. At the moment you can only check if you are registered through the Asterisk Console. However as long as you have entered in the correct information you should be connected to the provider immediately. (No reloads necessary).