[VoiceOps] Inbound Redundancy

[David Hiers]

Correct, failing over from one carrier to another for inbound calls is
a provisioning action, not a routing action.  Now, there's nothing to
say that market pressures could not force the adoption of some
administrative protocol that would permit a pre-configured,
hair-trigger port or RCF transaction that would be fired off by a
blurry-eyed customer engineer at 2am.

Inter-carrier, inbound failover doesn't exist in the PSTN either, so
architecturally the SIP network not lacking.  The PSTN simply assumes
that carriers as a whole do not fail, so in actual realization parts
of the SIP network might be a bit behind the PSTN.

Intra-carrier, inbound failover is a different matter.  If your
carrier has multiple proxies in multiple locations, its more likely
that you'll be able to cut a deal to get your inbound calls from NY
when LA slides into the sea.

David






On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Alex Balashov<abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
> Insofar as numbers can be ported only to one LRN per OCN per LATA at a time,
> there is no "provider redundancy" -- SS7 is not like BGP. Whatever
> redundancy exists must exist within your carrier's network architecture.
>
> J. Oquendo wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all who've answered I guess I could have been more specific so
>> apologies.
>>
>> What are some options for inbound redundancy. Outbound is not an issue
>> as I can swap off from my end on my routes out however, what does one do
>> for inbound failures. I *heard* from my carrier that an option would be
>> designed (sales talk mainly) for inbound redundancy. I would think a top
>> level carrier (don't want to get into definitions of Tier1, etc.) - I
>> would think they'd have a back-out change management plan on hand, but
>> that to me has proven to be non-existent. (Replacing an entire switch to
>> notice it failed 5 hours later at the start of a business day is not
>> cool).
>>
>> My thoughts, review the SLA's and come up with a MTD (Maximum Tolerable
>> Downtime) and the whole shtick of wording, payments, etc in which they'd
>> likely shrug at - at the end of the day. From my standpoint (engineered):
>>
>> Redundant connectivity (check)
>> Redundant equipment on hand (check)
>> Redundant outbound links (check)
>> Redundant inbound links (sort of checked)
>>
>> On my inbound links, I've DID's across carriers, but this does not (as
>> we know) provide redundancy for me when one inbound carrier does fail.
>>
>> "Hi Global?, can you take these L3 DID's for me. I have their engineers
>> ready to shoot you 4 million minutes in traffic until they get their act
>> together. k thanks!"
>>
>> Wish it worked that way.
>>
>
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