[VoiceOps] Connecting to Remote Tandems

[Mike Hammett]

That's the first I've heard of Wide Voice. Their network looks little sparse at the moment. I wonder if it's on-demand, as in once you inquire about a LATA, they build it out. 




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----- Original Message -----

From: "Mary Lou Carey" <marylou at backuptelecom.com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <voiceops at ics-il.net> 
Cc: "VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 5:33:19 PM 
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Connecting to Remote Tandems 

You can get a PSTN Connection Service from Peerless or Wide Voice. 
Inteliquent used to offer that service but they have backed away from it 
recently. 

To make it simple, you have to get certified as an Interconnected VOIP 
carrier and then set up SIP trunks with your PSTN Connection provider. 
You order a POI CLLI and LRN NXX for every LATA that you want to enter 
and point your traffic to the PSTN Connection provider's switch in the 
LERG. You still have all your own NXXs and LRNs, but you can get rid of 
your SS7 network because the PSTN Connection Service Provider handles 
that piece. You still do all your own porting and maintain all your 
connections with 911, LD, VOIP providers. If you want more information 
on how it all works, just message me privately. 

MARY LOU CAREY 
BackUP Telecom Consulting 
Office: 615-791-9969 
Cell: 615-796-1111 

On 2021-02-08 03:35 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: 
> Due to receiving several offlist e-mails about this point, I wanted to 
> point out that I'm not looking to do SIP directly to an ILEC tandem. I 
> assume there would be some abstraction layer happening by a third 
> party. 
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> From: "Mike Hammett" <voiceops at ics-il.net> 
> To: "VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org> 
> Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 9:24:57 AM 
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Connecting to Remote Tandems 
> 
> I did want to circle back on this. 
> 
> I am currently a CLEC with traditional voice services in a single LATA 
> on a single set of tandems. We have SS7, do our own porting, etc. 
> I understand that going interconnected VoIP (instead of CLEC) may be 
> easier for my expansions. 
> 
> So that I don't have to drag T1s all over the place, what options do I 
> have in front of me? To be clear, I am looking for specific providers 
> and products, even off-list solicitations. 
> 
> I'm not afraid of T1s, they're just expensive. I got a quote for a 
> single T1 to the facility where the other tandem in our LATA is, and 
> it was far more expensive than just sending the calls out our 
> termination providers. If I need more than one T1 (one for each 
> tandem), then I'm really priced out of the market. Obviously that 
> course of action wouldn't help me for my own number blocks. 
> 
> I looked at straight DID\minute services, but as some of our past (and 
> potential future) customers have several hundreds of DIDs compared to 
> the amount of traffic they'd have, that gets a difficult to operate 
> in. 
> 
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> Mike Hammett 
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> Midwest Internet Exchange 
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> 
> From: "Mike Hammett" <voiceops at ics-il.net> 
> To: "VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org> 
> Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 2:42:37 PM 
> Subject: [VoiceOps] Connecting to Remote Tandems 
> 
> I'm evaluating methods of extending our footprint. I purposely left 
> out company names. 
> 
> One of the companies we talked to was really only interested in 
> getting us the inbound long distance calls, not the local ones. Well, 
> they would, but the terms were vastly different. 
> 
> Given that I still need to build out to connect to the local tandem, 
> what's the point in using a third party to connect to long distance? 
> 
> Are the terms for connecting to the local tandems different because 
> the access tandem is simpler, whereas the local tandem could 
> potentially involve connections to a bunch of other switches, once 
> volume dictated I needed direct connections... and they don't want to 
> deal with that? 
> 
> Are there third parties that don't have vastly different terms for 
> local tandem services? 
> 
> Also, is it likely that I just don't understand what's going on? I 
> went circles with the sales rep to make sure I understood what he was 
> saying, but I could be wrong. 
> 
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