AIUI, Viper was their custom switch based off of Lucent/Ascend TNT/APX
platform. As David Hiers said, they went off of this ages ago.
-Aaron
On 4/22/2014 4:49 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote:
Hello all,
We are using an origination aggregator, and one of the underlying carriers that they use is Level 3. I have
seen "Vector" and "Viper" mentioned in the context of Level 3 both on their (the
aggregator's) customer portal as well as seen those terms thrown about in e-mail exchanges we have had with
them, but nobody that I've talked to over there so far can seem to tell me what exactly these terms mean.
From a brief Google search, I take it from a handful of posts I found in the VoiceOps archive that these are
separate network "platforms" that apparently L3 runs concurrently? (And it sounds like maybe
Vector is Sonus-based, and Viper something else?) But I've never found anybody offer an explanation of what
the differences are, why you might be provisioned on one instead of the other, what the advantages and
disadvantages are to each, etc., because any discussion of it already seems to assume some general knowledge
on the part of the participants. Some things I read sugge!
st!
that perhaps Viper is being sunsetted and people are gradually being
migrated over to Vector, but these posts are several years old, so you'd think
that would have been accomplished by this point?
Since we aren't L3 customers directly, I can't ask them. There isn't some kind
of NDA restricting dissemination of this information, is there?
Thanks,
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