There is no money in the one off elevator or fire alarm circuit to even touch the perceived liability. Let them use cellular if they cannot get POTS from the ILEC. I know of a “very large – very very large” data center that is located in a city that is 100% FTTH. The local ILEC had to go dig some old DLC out of the trash because they absolutely had to have 16 POTS lines. and could not have the POTS that came out of an ONT.
From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 8:11 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] POTS for "life safety" - MFVN Many VoIP providers won't touch elevators or fire alarm circuits. We don't mind but many municipalities require permitting, acceptance, etc. It wouldn't be difficult if you are willing to work with us and if the opportunity is worth the trouble. We (or someone else) would need to install at least 2 machines in your NOC or data center. That would be used as the primary softswitch within your network with our other clusters as backups. You should contact your municipalities and state to see what exactly would have to be done for your areas. Most I have seen don't have specific state regs, they leave it up to the cities but every place is different. On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:58 AM Brough Turner <[email protected]> wrote: Is there a way to "white label" Managed Facilites-based Voice Network (MFVN) services? I recognize MFVN service requires the softswitch and gateway be in the network (our network), but that would be ok if we could out-source configuration and operation to someone else and, for this service, be a subcontractor to that service provider. We provide high speed Internet connections, nothing else. Customers who want other services like VoIP, are referred to 3rd parties. But we have a few prospective customers whose fire alarm / security systems require a POTS analog telephone line or an MFVN equivalent, as the NFPA accepts MFVN services as adequate "for fire and life safety signaling between a protected premises and a central monitoring station." The phone service provided by the major cable companies qualifies as an MFVN service and we compete against Comcast for business customers in the greater Boston area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_facilities-based_voice_network#/media/File:MFVN_Diagram.PNG Thanks, Brough Brough Turner netBlazr Inc. – Free your Broadband! Mobile: 617-285-0433 Skype: brough netBlazr Inc. | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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