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