I wanted to note that I am still interested in working with competitive tandem
providers for "on-net" calls... calls among their customers, without ever
hitting an ILEC tandem.
Also, now that I look at their web page... it says it allows me to receive both
local and long distance calls using
*nods* I suspect we'll be keeping our own SS7 for a while. We're already in the
CO for other reasons and there are more points of failure than a circuit from
one room to the other. As you alluded to, if I'm already there, it's hard for
them to do it any cheaper than I am.
*sigh* The world
*nods* If I'm not using a third party tandem provider for the local tandem,
then I have to build it myself (whether it's actual collocation or just
dropping trunks on some transport provider). Since I already did all of that
work, why have that third party do the access tandem... since I'm
In our home turf, the same entity is operating local and long distance tandems
(I hear it's even the same chassis, just a different blade), so locally, I
wouldn't really be avoiding dealing with the ILEC. I understand that may not
always be the case. I'd assume it would be fairly common,
I forgot to mention one more thing..if the third party tandem
provider is handling the local and intraLATA traffic for you as well as
the FGD traffic, then you don't have to mess with managing your own SS7
network or programming your switch for the PSTN routing.
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP
There are a couple differences for various reasons. In the LERG there
are actually 3 tandems listed: One for Local, One for IntraLATA, and one
for FGD traffic. When you interconnect with only the ILEC, they only
have you establish 2 trunk groups. A local tandem trunk group that
handles the
I'm sure I know which one you're talking about. It's because they exist
in entirely different regulatory domains. The upside of inbound feature
group D is that you get to cut out a terrible ILEC tandem, and at least
the vendor I'm thinking of doesn't charge for the trunks themselves, so
you're
I'm evaluating methods of extending our footprint. I purposely left out company
names.
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.
Given that I still
