OK, hopefully this a good forum to post my questions in. I've been a long-time SIP user (over 12 years), but generally have been fairly close to the servers I register on. Currently contemplating changing things around.
I live in Western Canada. Some of the providers I might begin to use are located on East Coast of US or in Europe. Ping times to their registration servers are 80-120ms for US, 200-220ms for European. Typical ping to my nearest
voip.ms server is 25ms.
Let's say I have a European DID and register to a European server on my OBI to receive the calls, I have that 205ms latency.
If I forward the European DID to a
Voip.ms SIP URI, will I still have the 205ms latency, or is the calling party sent directly to my closer
Voip.ms server? Ways I could see it working.
1) Forwarding the SIP increases latency. It has a hop to the Euro server, then a hop to the
Voip.ms server. Therefore 205ms+25ms = 230ms.
2) Forwarding decreases latency. Upon arriving at POP, all traffic is redirected to the
Voip.ms server bypassing the Euro server and going direct to my
Voip.ms feed.
I could forward directly to OBI I'm sure and reduce latency, but I am wanting to make use of the
voip.ms IVR systems on these external DIDs.
Perhaps there are other options I haven't thought of and neither of my theories are correct.
If someone could shed some light, or point me in the direction of a helpful article, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks!
Rob