Has anyone in here done this with Frontier? They're our ILEC and tandem
operator.
Is that aspect of Frontier reliable?
Is that aspect of Frontier any less money than what I'd be paying now?
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Anyone in here using Syniverse for these services and can speak to their
reliability?
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From: "Mary Lou Carey"
To: "Mike
Apparently, Frontier just use TNS and Syniverse and don't have their own
infrastructure.
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From: Mike Hammett
To: Matthew Crocker
Cc:
My assumption is that I have to just put up with it.
I have a customer that, per Facebook chatter, is closing up shop. We got a port
out request from a local competitor.
I forget the reasoning, but we called the customer to verify and they
confirmed.
Then it was canceled. The other carrier
ut if not, yes, since you hold the number, and someone is paying you for
the number, you must deal with Port Out requests, even if they keep doing
annoying and inconceivable things.
Beckman
On Thu, 19 Oct 2023, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
> My assumption is that I have to just put up
My current vendor has a similar setup. One VPN endpoint and STP are in the same
market. The other are 1k miles apart. No idea why they'd do that. It seems like
it would introduce extra opportunities for failure.
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From: "Mike Johnston via VoiceOps"
To: "voiceops"
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 3:05:40 PM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape
Yes. Any particular questions?
On 2023-10-24 08:18, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
Any experience with Inteliq
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On 2023-10-24 03:11 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
> Recommend\don't recommend?
> Anything to watch out for?
>
> The offer I got was attractive, but not everything that's attractive
> is what it seem
een at the company. But plenty of issues with the
transport providers to reach them. Luckily never both at the same time.
Including a number of instances of flapping. Note, these are A-Links over TDM,
not SIGTRAN at this time.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:22 PM Mike Hammett via VoiceOps <
voiceops
We recently received a CSR request. I was asked how we're supposed to respond.
Looking through what we had sent out in the past was... less than satisfactory
to me. It seemed too simplistic.
Unfortunately, when I Googled for additional input, I got a range of:
"Ask your provider, they'll
This was in another thread, but I broke it out into it's own conversation.
Someone had asked:
---
Hi,
I am joining this thread late, but, would anyone out there be interested in
exchanging traffic with other carriers directly over SIP?
The service would just look like a carrier, except
Trying to learn, not be snippy.
If I have to maintain any of the old way, what's the advantage in moving any of
it elsewhere?
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- Original Message
Any experience with Inteliquent for SS7\SIGTRAN services?
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From: "Mike Hammett"
To: "voiceops"
Sent: Saturday, January 22,
xchange has been proclaimed every year since the early
2000s"
3) "This is quietly happening for years now anyway, just not in the way you've
got in mind."
-- Alex
> On 24 Oct 2023, at 08:49, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org >
> wrote:
>
> Th
We've come across some legacy customers that have directory listings through us
(or, well, at least we're paying Frontier for them).
1. Are those a thing in the VoIP space? Can I go to {insert SIP provider
here} and they can place directory listings, unpublish numbers, etc.?
2. Are
always been submitted through the LECs LSR
system, but I don't believe you can submit an order unless you're
leasing or reselling one of their lines.
MARY LOU CAREY
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Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2023-08-21 05:16 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
&
Going through a migration from E911 to NG911, I've been peering into what and
how we do 911, both old and new.
A) Not all services have a web UI for you to make changes. Intrado does, but
the new one does not. Only way is to upload SOI files. I guess we gotta figure
out how to do that.
B)
;-)
We let go an employee that handled most (maybe even all) of our ordering,
porting, etc. Getting knowledge out of them was impossible. Whatever knowledge
they did have wasn't usually maintained.
So far about half of the entities I've reached out to are unable to determine
what users are
orks with circuit-switched/SS7,
but at least with SIP I think the endpoint just transmits it as an XML payload
in the SIP INVITE, or something along those lines.)
-- Nathan
From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
via VoiceOps
Sent: Tuesday
Aaron Cooper
Account Manager
IPPay
2001 Broadway, Suite 600, Riviera Beach, FL 33404
Tel: (561) 210-3504 | Cell: 417-483-4651 | Fax: 847-346-0991
acoo...@ippay.com
Let him know I sent you.
IP Pay specializes in recurring transactions for ISPs, so VoIP shouldn't be
much different.
Say I have a phone number (or an LRN). How do I find out what tandem switch
it's actually homed to?
I know that the phone number (or LRN) should be homed to whatever tandem switch
the ILEC in that rate center is homed to, but A) that doesn't always happen and
B) you can't always easily
as a silly garbage in\garbage out problem.
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From: "Mike Hammett via VoiceOps"
To: "Mark Timm"
Cc: "VoiceOps
Great idea.
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- Original Message -
From: "Mary Lou Carey via VoiceOps"
To: "Mike Johnston"
Cc: voiceops@voiceops.org
Sent: Wednesday, October
Does anyone have an Intrado 911 support contact? I've tried, but their web
sites don't work, emails bounce, etc.
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I've received a few responses, thanks. Hopefully some of them pan out.
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From: "Mike Hammett via VoiceOps"
To
How common is it for an upstream provider (in this case someone that manages
911 networks) to not have a sandbox, testing number, or anything of any kind to
allow you to test that you've done everything right, short of just sending 911
calls in production? Most of my third-party DID providers
the first
place.
Frontier's online troubleshooting chat link
https://frontier.com/login?target=2f6163636f756e74#/troubleshooting
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2022-10-03 10:34 AM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
> Calls through Ban
pt liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this
message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is
required please request a hard-copy version.
From: VoiceOps On Behalf Of Mike Hammett via
VoiceOps
Sent: Monday, October 3, 2022 10:34 AM
To: Nick Olsen
, Different
results? Maybe the end user is subscribed to some service that is blocking the
call..etc.
Best of luck!
From: VoiceOps on behalf of Mike Hammett via
VoiceOps
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 2:35 PM
To: VoiceOps
Subject: [VoiceOps] Tandem Dropping Calls
We have a new custo
How would the original carrier know? I've never seen anything about numbers
being returned to us. Maybe my employees are ignoring them, maybe the emails
are lost, maybe we have to fetch it from somewhere.
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From: "Mike Hammett via VoiceOps"
To: voiceops@voiceops.org
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2022 10:38:11 AM
Subject:
How does that work?
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- Original Message -
From: "Greg Stone via VoiceOps"
To: "Mike Johnston" , voiceops@voiceops.org
Sent: Friday, October 14,
We have a new customer that has an increasing number of TNs they can't call.
I've traced them all down to going through our local Frontier tandem. Calls
from other phone numbers on our network are fine. Two of the numbers are with
Frontier, just another ratecenter off of that tandem. The third
I have two conflicting opinions in my head (origin unknown) of what to do with
the subscriber's service when they port away. In the absence of requirements,
what are people generally doing?
1) They've ported a given number away, so clearly they don't want our service.
Terminate the service
Is there any advantage to us doing a full port? I figured partial port always
left room for the losing carrier to still have numbers the customer forgot
about.
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nday, December 11, 2022 at 1:13 PM
To: VoiceOps
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Empty Calls
Are they coming in via your carrier(s), or are they coming from random IPs?
On Dec 11, 2022 at 1:09:28 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps <
voiceops@voiceops.org > wrote:
Didn't even realize I
: voiceops@voiceops.org
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2022 5:14:58 PM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Empty Calls
On 12/11/22 12:07, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
> We've been getting "empty" calls for years. BY empty, I mean there's no
> audio there at all.
Often this is a predictive dialer
Didn't even realize I had sent it already...
We've been getting "empty" calls for years. BY empty, I mean there's no audio
there at all. They're calls from all over the place (I don't think I've traced
them all down). We've had them sit on the line for hours (back when our IVR
permitted
We've been getting "empty" calls for years. BY empty, I mean there's no audio
there at all.
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2022 2:12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Empty Calls
Are they coming in via your carrier(s), or are they coming from random IPs?
On Dec 11, 2022 at 1:09:28 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps <
voiceops@voiceops.org > wrote:
Didn't even realize I had sen
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From: "Peter Beckman"
To: "Mike Hammett"
Cc: "Richard Jobson" , "VoiceOps"
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 5:03:37 PM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Empty Calls
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022, Mike
I was going to reach out to Jared Mauch, but it looks like he's already hosting
mailman as it is. :-)
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From: "David via
the toll free in as the called number in
the UCON Forward?
Greg Stone
Senior Voice Network Engineer
Race Communications
E : greg.st...@race.com
P : 415-376-3306
Web : Visit Race.com
From: VoiceOps on behalf of Mike Hammett via
VoiceOps
Sent: Tuesday, November 8,
: "Markus via VoiceOps"
To: voiceops@voiceops.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 10:18:29 AM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Metaswitch Loopback
Am 08.11.2022 um 16:38 schrieb Mike Hammett via VoiceOps:
> I'm working a situation where I need to rewrite my called number to a
> toll-free
I'm working a situation where I need to rewrite my called number to a toll-free
number. Because the rewriting happens after Metaswitch does the toll-free
lookup, the tandem rejects the call as there's no dip.
Metaswitch support had me route the call to a SIP loopback trunk, but that also
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- Original Message -
From: "Mike Hammett via VoiceOps"
To: voiceops@voiceops.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 5:21:39 PM
Subject: [VoiceOps] 911 Database Stuff
Going through a migration from E911 to NG911, I've been peering into what and
how
to help sort out one set of records from
another. It wasn't pretty, but it worked for what we needed and it was better
than nothing.
Andy
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 16:57 Mike Hammett via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org >
wrote:
Does anyone have a better way of generating the NEN
sday, February 22, 2023 5:28:06 PM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Neustar SOA Archives
Ask to get a BDD set up from the NPAC and you'll have a copy of the regional
LNP database every morning, piping fresh. You'l want to write a script or
something because the files are a lot too big for somethin
: "Ross Tajvar"
To: "Mike Hammett"
Cc: "VoiceOps"
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 3:32:53 PM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Off-Net Numbers
Surely you have commercial relationships with these entities, and can work
backward from "who am I paying?"?
On Fri
Historically, we used multiple entities to get us off-net numbers. Who, what,
when, I don't know.
I have off-net numbers configured in my Metaswitch where I don't know who our
upstream was, if we still have them, who they belonged to, etc. I can easily
figure out what CLEC has them now, but
Are you setting up 911 records for all numbers assigned to customers or just
ones that would be dialing out?
We pull customer numbers all of the time that served no original purpose other
than for a legacy operator that needed to put a phone number on every line a
customer had. We keep them
We have been using 3CX for our hosted PBX platform. It's come time for us to
find something else. I chose 3CX at the time because it had the best
user-facing UI.
I've had a lot of platforms suggested to me by other ISPs, but I thought I'd
come here to see what you all have to say.
3CX
lot too big for something like excel, but a
comparison is easy at that point.
On Feb 22, 2023, at 6:18 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps
wrote:
How many of you are still using Neustar SOA? Any better ways of getting this
information?
After some personnel changes, we're cleaning up our
How many of you are still using Neustar SOA? Any better ways of getting this
information?
After some personnel changes, we're cleaning up our systems. Things haven't
been maintained properly over the years.
We're going through disabled (but not ported away or deleted) numbers in
Ask to get a BDD set up from the NPAC and you'll have a copy of the regional
LNP database every morning, piping fresh. You'l want to write a script or
something because the files are a lot too big for something like excel, but a
comparison is easy at that point.
On Feb 22, 2023, at 6:18 PM,
g because the files are a lot too big for something like excel, but a
comparison is easy at that point.
On Feb 22, 2023, at 6:18 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps
wrote:
How many of you are still using Neustar SOA? Any better ways of getting this
information?
After some personnel ch
I have a debt collector looking for TN reputation tools or services. Any
recommendations?
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Is there a better place to look up toll-free number information than
https://www.800forall.com/SearchWhoOwns.aspx ? My only connection to that is a
Google search.
As we're auditing our invoices, I'm finding services we're being billed for
that don't match current customers. I think I can get
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On 2024-01-22 06:11 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
> I'm just learning about NRUF 502.
>
> As I read the documentation (and some Googling):
>
> Every phone number in the blocks I have are either Assigne
I'm just learning about NRUF 502.
As I read the documentation (and some Googling):
Every phone number in the blocks I have are either Assigned, Intermediate,
Reserved, Aging, or Administrative.
Ported out numbers count as assigned.
Returned ported numbers are available.
I do this for
Are you a Frontier customer and have access to VFO?
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- Original Message -
From: "Collin Rose via VoiceOps"
To: "VoiceOps"
Sent: Sunday, February
In my experience, they will investigate and let you know what's going on. For
us, usually, it's a problem with a Verizon Wireless circuit causing Verizon
Wireless reachability issues.
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Some PBXes have integrations with the property management systems to solve a
lot of that daily hassle.
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- Original Message -
From: "Nate Burke via
Do you have the ability to look up in NPAC the contact information for that
SPID?
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- Original Message -
From: "Nick Garrett via VoiceOps"
To:
As we look to modernize parts of our Metaswitch deployment, we're looking to
replace our VP3510 gateways with TelcoBridges gear. That gear ended up being
way more expensive than I had anticipated. What have you used in these
environments? We currently run 2x DS3s and 9x DS1s split across two
During a conversation between one of my staff and our Frontier rep with the
context of moving our TDM tandem connections to IP (which I thought was on par
with a cold day in hell), our Frontier rep said they were investigating SIP
trunking for a possible early 2025 introduction. Given that they
With all of the changes happening at VMWare, are there any going concerns about
Metaswitch relying on VMWare for deployments?
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We ended up replacing the SP4200 via Metaswitch and were back in business.
We're back into issues again that my guy is still working with Metaswitch
support on, but as you're all well aware, that chassis was end of support last
year, so our options are slim.
Upgrading to something new is a
mm (Los Angeles area)
> On 8 Mar 2024, at 08:32, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps
> wrote:
>
> I don't trust last mile networks to reliably deliver SIP calls. I usually end
> up putting them into VPNs, TLS, etc.
VPNs and TLS make last-mile networks more reliable? :-)
-- Alex
--
I don't trust last mile networks to reliably deliver SIP calls. I usually end
up putting them into VPNs, TLS, etc.
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- Original Message -
From: "Jim
I haven't been able to attribute it to malice or ignorance yet, just that it
happens.
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- Original Message -
From: "Alex Balashov via VoiceOps"
: "Mike Hammett via VoiceOps"
To: "voiceops"
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 6:11:06 PM
Subject: [VoiceOps] NRUF 502
I'm just learning about NRUF 502.
As I read the documentation (and some Googling):
Every phone number in the blocks I have are either Assigned, Intermedia
What are some examples of when someone would report intermediate numbers? The
documentation gives a technical answer, but not a real-world example.
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On 2024-03-24 07:25 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
> https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf/NRUF/GeoJobAid.pdf
>
> “Resold” services should also be treated like ported numbers,
> meaning the carrier transfer
er had is
the same as porting. You only need to file U1 and leave any numbers
ported or donated to another carrier due to a customer move in the
assigned column.
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2024-03-24 07:25 PM, M
Please correct me if my new position is wrong.
I believe we weren't creating SVs properly. We created SVs for port-ins only.
We did that and that alone and ports in and out worked.
We had someone ask us for concurrence. What's that? Digging through the Neustar
SOA documentation and what I
I pulled an NPAC Porting Transactions Report today and noticed a group (74) of
ports of numbers from our SPID to AT Mobility's SPID. I don't show anything
in our LSR mailbox from that timeframe. The TNs ported aren't in our NANPA
allocations. I don't show any record of them in our system
Are FaxBack and similar solutions standards-based or are they proprietary? I
swore they were proprietary, but a friend of mine swears they are t.37.
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