Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

2022-01-22 Thread Paul Timmins
Even without IPES you can switch your feature group D to voip through these aggregators and get rid of basically everything that isn't the local LEC's legacy network. > On Jan 22, 2022, at 7:03 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Sure, but then I just transfer the problem to someone else, until the

Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

2022-01-22 Thread Mary Lou Carey
You can connect without SS7 through Inteliquent, Peerless, and Wide Voice but they aren't in the smaller LATAs so if you're covering a more rural area it won't help you. MARY LOU CAREY BackUP Telecom Consulting Office: 615-791-9969 Cell: 615-796- On 2022-01-22 03:34 PM, Shawn L wrote: I

Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

2022-01-22 Thread Mike Hammett
Sure, but then I just transfer the problem to someone else, until the traditional PSTN goes away or modernizes. I am working on IPES for expansion markets, though. Also, for my home LATA, I'm needing to be in the same building as the primary tandem, so it's kind of a selling point for large

Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

2022-01-22 Thread Shawn L
I don't see that happening anytime soon for the average teclo. We have SIP trunks to a lot of places, but I don't see the ISUP trunks going away any time soon. In fact, I just received an order to turn up an ISUP trunk last week. Wish we could get rid of them, but I don't see it happening. On

Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

2022-01-22 Thread Paul Timmins
Reduce your reliance on it more and more. Switch to IP tandems (Inteliquent/Peerless/etc) and ip interconnect. The people who make and support SS7 equipment are in a dying market, the brain drain on it is immense as people retire, and the longer you rely on it, the worse it's gonna get. TNS is

[VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

2022-01-22 Thread Mike Hammett
We currently get our SS7 via TNS. I (maybe incorrectly) understand them to be a big dog in that space. I've had two major problems with them in six months. What are my alternatives? Are they less pleasant? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: [VoiceOps] TNS SS7 Outage

2022-01-22 Thread Mike Hammett
Our investigation determined that a router in our Ashburn data center where the STP is located was incorrectly learning the route back to our Ashburn VPN site via the IPX core in Chicago ( though Chicago was not actually in the path). The power issue in Chicago that took down an IPX switch,

[VoiceOps] Verizon Call Completion Issues

2022-01-22 Thread Mike Hammett
I was having call completion issues with Verizon Wireless, so I routed around them and put in a ticket with Frontier (tandem operator). Instead of the usual snarky responses, I got back activity. They actually dispatched someone to the CO. They saw issues and escalated with Verizon. They