<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I did want to circle back on this.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>I understand that going interconnected VoIP (instead of CLEC) may be easier for my expansions.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net><br><b>To: </b>"VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, August 9, 2019 2:42:37 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[VoiceOps] Connecting to Remote Tandems<br><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000">I'm evaluating methods of extending our footprint. I purposely left out company names.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Are there third parties that don't have vastly different terms for local tandem services?</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br><div><br><div><span></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span></span><br></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>VoiceOps mailing list<br>VoiceOps@voiceops.org<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>