[VoiceOps] STI-CA average pricing

[Carlos Perez]

Sansay provides the standalone CA solution as well if that’s what’s needed.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 11:06 AM 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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Carlos Perez
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