I was finally able to have a meeting with a local ISP that I think will be able to provide the enhanced bandwidth we’re looking for to ramp up the Phase I voice broadcast campaign. We’re preparing to have the ability to scale our call volume up and down to meet whatever need exists among those of you AMG members who need leads. Everyone is going to have different needs, so we have to be able to fill whatever legitimate and approved requests are set before us. This means on some days, we may only run one or two dozen channels (phone lines) concurrently. But other days, or blocks of time during a work day, we may need to scale up to several hundred lines simultaneously making calls. We’re putting together the software to make this happen right now, and should be testing certain parts of it this week. I haven’t yet decided which ISP should carry the traffic, though.
For the past 2 months I have wanted to meet with a local ISP who recently installed a sizeable fiber optic network. I had a good meeting with them and discovered they can provide everything we need. They are currently preparing a proposal for us to consider. Something very unique about them is that they also have a strong microwave facility and could shoot a signal right here to the office where all these servers are currently set up. They tell me download microwave bandwidth would typically be 50 meg, and upload is usually the same or greater. I was surprised to learn that they can often achieve higher UPLOAD wireless bandwidth than download. That’s the opposite of most services. But it’s exactly what we’re looking for since outbound telephone traffic “IS” upload bandwidth. The bottom line here is that it looks like I would be able to make over 100,000 calls a day from my home office.
We’re also considering a co-location of equipment and/or virtualizing their existing servers. If you don’t know what all that means, don’t worry. Virtualized servers are common. Essentially it just means that one computer can have the same look and feel as 100 computers (i.e."virtual” computers). Depending on the expense, we’ll likely do business with them despite having a commercial grade Comcast connection here in the home office.
An additional major benefit is the fact that they don’t impose any upper limits on the number of emails we can deliver. The email server I just installed has the ability to send emails on 512 concurrent threads. In short, that means we can send emails 512-at-a-time. Thus, sending to our current database of about 1,500 GTM members would take …..oh … about 15 seconds. Not bad! The enhancements we’re making these days are great! You can expect to start seeing more emails from GlobalTmail in the coming weeks and months.
One more thing, if you want an email address ending in “xxxxxx@globaltmailusa.com” for FREE, please put a comment requesting the email at the end of this article (unless you’ve already done it). Tell me what name and password you prefer and I’ll set it up for you. You’ll need to use Outlook or Outlook Express to use the free email account. You could also use a different email Client, but you’ll have to set up the POP3 and SMTP settings yourself (or get somebody to help you; don’t worry, it’s pretty easy). Stay tuned, today (Wednesday) is really busy so I’ll get a report out to you tomorrow.
Rich
I would like porterdr53@globaltmailusa.com
Password: t136cox123
Thanks
David
Posted by: David Porter | March 02, 2011 at 07:18 PM