[VoiceOps] STI-CA average pricing

[Paul Timmins]

Transnexus also has a CA they sell separately. 

https://transnexus.com/sti-ca/ <https://transnexus.com/sti-ca/>



> On Jun 4, 2022, at 2:05 PM, Mary Lou Carey <marylou at backuptelecom.com> wrote:
> 
> As far as I know, NEUSTAR is the only CA that will allow you to get a token without using their STIR/SHAKEN services.I know that there are multiple options for the STIR/SHAKEN products so make sure to ask about the various products / price ranges.
> 
> MARY LOU CAREY
> BackUP Telecom Consulting
> Office: 615-791-9969
> Cell: 615-796-1111
> 
> On 2022-06-03 10:22 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote:
>> Starting to collect quotes for SHAKEN cert signing from STI-CAs, and
>> got our first response back.
>> I also got whiplash at the same time.
>> Although I didn't have to sign an NDA or agree to any kind of
>> confidentiality in order to get this response, since nobody seemingly
>> wants to publish their pricing, I will (at least for the time being)
>> keep both the quote itself as well as the vendor name close to my
>> chest.  But...dang.
>> Though I'm hoping to be surprised, I'm guessing that there isn't a
>> wide difference in pricing between various STI-CAs.  Can people here
>> confirm that I'm likely to mostly hear same-y figures from others?  Or
>> if there are options that are significantly cheaper than others, who
>> do y'all recommend that I should be talking to?
>> Note that I'm only talking about the CA component as a standalone
>> offering, though I'll observe that with very few exceptions, it also
>> doesn't seem like too many vendors are either willing to unbundle the
>> CA service from their overall "end-to-end cloud-based SHAKEN"
>> products, or if they are, they seemingly don't like to publicize it.
>> To put my response to this pricing in context, we are a relatively
>> small regional broadband provider, and voice is a fraction of a
>> fraction of our business.  I'd wager just about everyone else here has
>> a larger voice subscriber base than we do, and most of you probably
>> didn't blink when you saw the price-tag on what it would take to
>> become part of the STIR/SHAKEN ecosystem...just the cost of doing
>> business, right?
>> We do have effective CLID anti-spoof already & have since the
>> beginning, and as a small provider, we also were *supposed* to have
>> another 12 months to get up to speed on all of this and start signing
>> calls...at least, that was the case until the FCC moved that timetable
>> up in what I can only describe as a Darth Vader-esque "altering [of]
>> the deal".  We didn't get that memo in December but only about 3ish
>> months ago, and it's not like I don't have plenty of other things to
>> do, so I'm already coming into this project plenty pissed off...
>> *sigh* Anyway, I can see that the gate-keepery-ness of this industry
>> is still alive and well.  Though I can understand wanting to keep out
>> the riff-raff, you would think that all of the hurdles that one needs
>> to clear in order to get this far -- getting an OCN, on-boarding with
>> the STI-PA, etc. -- would be enough without also throwing yet another
>> huge mandatory & ongoing expense on top of the pile as well.
>> Sorry.  Didn't mean for this to turn into a rant, but...ugh.
>> --
>> Nathan Anderson
>> First Step Internet, LLC
>> nathana at fsr.com
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