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F07Carriers & SIPStart here · foundationsNetworking basics for VoIP: IP, DNS, ports and NATTrace a connection from a hostname to an address and port before diagnosing SIP or browser audio.F08Carriers & SIPStart here · foundationsVoIP and telephony basics: how a call path fits togetherLearn the plain-language pieces of a phone call before configuring a carrier, DID or campaign.F09Carriers & SIPStart here · foundationsSIP basics for beginners: registration, calls and responsesRead the basic SIP conversation, then check your host's registered SIP ports, before configuring PJSIP, a carrier trunk or WebRTC.86Carriers & SIPStage 6 · VoIP foundationsVoIP and SIP recap before your first VICIdial carrierA recap, not a re-teaching: confirm — on your own build — which SIP transport and port Asterisk is actually using before you touch a real carrier or a firewall rule, since this curriculum's earlier VoIP and SIP lessons already define the vocabulary.FB4Carriers & SIPSIP security · incident evidenceSIP attack traffic reaches Asterisk: verify the boundary before blocking moreA single blocked IP only ever answers the address a rotating source last used, and this build runs two independent SIP listeners at once. Confirm both stacks and the real firewalld state before deciding a rule has failed.FB5Carriers & SIPCarrier quality · call outcomesDead air and fake answers: collect carrier evidence before changing AMDVICIdial logs a call as picked up the instant a carrier signals Answer, before an agent is ever involved, and AMD listens against that same window. A carrier that signals Answer early starts the clock on nothing; separate that from list quality and genuine AMD misclassification before changing any AMD setting.35Carriers & SIPCarrier setupConnect your first SIP carrier so calls can leave the serverGather the right facts from your provider, create one database-managed carrier in Admin, verify PJSIP registration, and place one test call, all without hand-editing a single Asterisk file.45Carriers & SIPCarrier redundancyConfigure multi-carrier redundancy in VICIdial before downtime forces you toAdd a second carrier that stays active next to your first, learn exactly how a campaign's dial prefix chooses between them, detect a dead carrier from the same Asterisk and VICIdial logs you already have, and fail traffic over and back without waiting on a config rebuild, because VICIdial will not do any of this for you and every minute of dialer downtime is agents sitting idle.48Carriers & SIPCarrier cost controlVICIdial least-cost routing: cut carrier costs with dial prefixes, not a rate engineVICIdial has no built-in rate-table engine that shops carriers for you: least-cost routing here means a campaign's dial prefix, a carrier's stored dialplan entry, and Asterisk's own pattern matching, ordered deliberately and measured with real call data instead of a rate sheet.50Carriers & SIPOutbound caller ID reputationStopping “Scam Likely” labels on VICIdial outbound callsCarriers, not VICIdial, decide whether a call earns full attestation. Get the caller ID, DID registration, and dial pacing right and Scam Likely labeling drops; get them wrong and no dialer setting fixes it.55Carriers & SIPTwilio carrier setupConfigure Twilio Elastic SIP Trunking with VICIdialCreate an Elastic SIP Trunk in the Twilio console, configure Termination with a Credential List and Origination with your server's own address, add Twilio as a database-managed VICIdial carrier, open exactly the right ports on the server and the cloud firewall, and prove both directions with one test call before troubleshooting the three failures that cause nearly every problem.56Carriers & SIPCarrier comparison frameworkTelnyx vs Twilio for high-volume outbound dialingCompare Telnyx and Twilio by authentication model, signalling reach, transports, codecs, SRTP ciphers, and media port ranges from each vendor's own documentation, then test both against your traffic and measure the result from vicidial_carrier_log yourself.57Carriers & SIPElastic trunk capacityElastic SIP trunking for predictive dialers: why your own media path is the real ceilingElastic SIP trunking removes the fixed channel count a predictive dialer used to be provisioned against, but dial level multiplies concurrent calls faster than agent headcount suggests, and your own server's configured RTP port range - not either vendor's much wider published range - is what you actually have to size against that arithmetic.30Carriers & SIPProcurement test planA 12-point SIP trunk evaluation matrix for VICIdialChoose a SIP provider only after a documented route test matrix; this is an evaluation framework, not a made-up winner or ranking.05Carriers & SIPSBC architectureOpenSIPS in front of VICIdial: registration and dialog ownershipUnderstand registration ownership, topology hiding and dialog routing before placing an SBC in the VICIdial call path.06Carriers & SIPTroubleshootingWhen a carrier hostname suddenly stops resolvingRead the resolver directly on a ViciBox build where Asterisk is not a confined systemd service, then prove A, AAAA and SRV answers separately before treating a missing subscriber as a carrier outage.