Are you ignoring the position Intelliquent has in the market?
> On Dec 5, 2015, at 14:26, Alex Balashov <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems to me that even now, the central preoccupation of any VoIP ITSP is > connection to the PSTN, and that the ILEC tandem is still the anchor of that > supply chain. > > Not a year has gone by since ~2000 or so that some grandiose, cosmological > reduced/free pure-IP peering/clearinghouse proposal hasn't appeared, but all > of these are hollow when the PSTN is still the common denominator. > > Moreover, there are powerful inertial forces that aim to incentivise the > continuation of the incumbent transit model - measured usage over SS7 - for > as long as possible. There is a fairly large number of private interconnects > that are technologically IP, of course, but they operate in a conceptually > similar way. The next-generation walled gardens cropping up around VoLTE and > mobile are conceptually similar, too; IMS is just a different kind of > transport for the same old thing. > > So, the right question to ask isn't: "Is the PSTN dead yet?" It's more like, > "Are you on PSTN 2.0 yet"? :-) > > -- Alex > > -- > Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC > 303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300 > Atlanta, GA 30346 > United States > > Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct) > Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
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