[VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

[Mary Lou Carey]

You can connect without SS7 through Inteliquent, Peerless, and Wide 
Voice but they aren't in the smaller LATAs so if you're covering a more 
rural area it won't help you.

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

On 2022-01-22 03:34 PM, Shawn L wrote:
> I don't see that happening anytime soon for the average teclo.  We
> have SIP trunks to a lot of places, but I don't see the ISUP trunks
> going away any time soon.  In fact, I just received an order to turn
> up an ISUP trunk last week.  Wish we could get rid of them, but I
> don't see it happening.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 2:54 PM Paul Timmins <paul at timmins.net> wrote:
> 
>> Reduce your reliance on it more and more. Switch to IP tandems
>> (Inteliquent/Peerless/etc) and ip interconnect. The people who make
>> and support SS7 equipment are in a dying market, the brain drain on
>> it is immense as people retire, and the longer you rely on it, the
>> worse it's gonna get.
>> 
>> TNS is a big dog in the space. But that's not saying much anymore.
>> 
>>> On Jan 22, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Mike Hammett <voiceops at ics-il.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We currently get our SS7 via TNS. I (maybe incorrectly) understand
>>> them to be a big dog in that space.
>>> 
>>> I've had two major problems with them in six months.
>>> 
>>> What are my alternatives? Are they less pleasant?
>>> 
>>> -----
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
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>>> 
>>> Midwest Internet Exchange
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