Migrate from Self-Hosted

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What Telnyx replaces

• LiveKit SFU server
• SIP service / Otel SIP
• TURN/STUN servers
• Container orchestration / autoscaling
• TLS termination and load balancing
• Monitoring infrastructure

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What stays the same

• Your agent code
• SDK calls
• Room management logic
• Dispatch rules

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Steps

1. Create a Telnyx account at portal.telnyx.com
2. Generate a Telnyx API key in the portal
3. Register with the platform (one-time):
   curl -s -X POST "https://<region>.livekit-telnyx.com/provision" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "name": "my-project",
       "api_key": "'$TELNYX_API_KEY'",
       "api_secret": "'$LIVEKIT_API_SECRET'"
     }'
   
4. Update your agent to point at https://nyc1.livekit-telnyx.com (or your preferred region)
5. Move secrets to the platform:
   lk agent deploy . --secrets TELNYX_API_KEY=<your-key>,OTHER_SECRET=<value>
   
6. Re-create dispatch rules on the Telnyx platform
7. Update SIP configuration to point at Telnyx SIP endpoints
8. Verify your agent is running: lk room list
9. Decommission your self-hosted infrastructure

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What you gain

• No infra management — No Kubernetes, no TURN, no Redis for multi-region.
• Built-in SIP, no third-party SIP fees — On other platforms, you pay third-party SIP fees on top of your usage. On Telnyx, those are gone entirely.
• Managed autoscaling — Platform handles container lifecycle.
• Ultra-low latency AI on Telnyx GPUs — STT, TTS, and LLM colocated in every region ~2ms from your agents. No round-trips to external APIs.