When there are multiple ILECs in a LATA like in LA - LATA 730, you would set up an interconnection point with each ILEC. So you'd have one for the AT&T areas and one for the old Verizon areas. When you have trunks to both carriers in the LATA, you can use your own network to switch traffic from the one LATA to the other LATA, but you can't deliver it to the ILEC and expect them to hand it off to the other ILEC. It would work the same with the third party providers.......as long as they have a connection in both ILEC areas, then they can use their own network to deliver the traffic from the one ILEC area to the other ILEC area.

Mary Lou Carey

BackUP Telecom Consulting

Office: 615-771-7868 (temporary)

Cell: 615-796-1111

On 2018-08-28 08:18 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
I thought everyone connected to the ILEC-hosted tandem responsible for
the rate centers where the number blocks were assigned, but that seems
to not always be the case when there are multiple ILEC-hosted tandems
in a LATA.

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FROM: "Erik" <e...@eespro.com>
TO: "Mike Hammett" <voice...@ics-il.net>
CC: voiceops@voiceops.org
SENT: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 7:25:40 PM
SUBJECT: Re: [VoiceOps] LNP, tandems, etc.

Most providers simply connect to the tandem at the ILEC. The end
office transit termination and origination cost is SO LOW that it
doesn't make since to have a switch or access point at the end office.
Since most things are ILEC if not all are VOIP everything is coming
from a centralize switch point. Hopefully all the 1970's billing
methods will disappear.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Mike Hammett <voice...@ics-il.net>
wrote:

Meaning if I thought were true? I had just assumed that Inteliquent
did have the connections to every tandem in the LATAs they serve,
given that (my thought) that you could only port numbers on the same
tandem, so universal coverage would require connections to every
tandem. We're actually looking at someone like Inteliquent to expand
our footprint.

So I'm supposed to be connected to every tandem in my LATA? In my
LATA, there are only two (I believe), but some LATAs (like Chicago)
have several. I'm supposed to drag a DS1 (or use Inteliquent, etc.
if available) to connect to each one, even if I don't provide
service in the rate centers traditionally served by that tandem? It
seems like Comcast threw a dart at a dart board in choosing which
tandem to connect to vs. going with the one that everyone else in
that town uses.

So then I could port a number from any rate center in my LATA (say
Savanna) and point it to my LRN, living off of a tandem switch that
the Savanna ILEC isn't connected to (from my outside world
perspective)? Is there even the LATA constraint? Given the porting
limitations I had experienced in the VoIP world, I assumed it was a
tandem-by-tandem basis.

So the LERG shows which tandem I need to send traffic to if I want
to talk to them, but they could send their outbound calls to a
different tandem? My current customer complaint is for calls that
we're sending to Comcast, apparently homed off of the other tandem.

If everyone is supposed to be on every tandem, then why can't the
tandem I'm on just accept the calls I'm sending to Comcast, since
Comcast should be there? Obviously me not being on the other tandem
would affect inbound traffic to me.

Is there another service I should be paying Frontier for to get me
to the other tandem with some value-add service? I know CenturyLink
hops through almost every town going that way (former LightCore and
others before route). Frontier or CenturyLink may be able to get me
a DS1 to the other tandem if I need that.

I'm aware that I could still be completely missing the mark.

BTW: Thanks for TelcoData. I subscribed a long time ago, but haven't
for many ages.

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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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Midwest Internet Exchange
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FROM: "Paul Timmins" <ptimm...@clearrate.com>
TO: "Mike Hammett" <voice...@ics-il.net>
CC: voiceops@voiceops.org
SENT: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 5:19:11 PM
SUBJECT: Re: [VoiceOps] LNP, tandems, etc.

If that were true, you wouldn't be able to use inteliquent (et al)
as your access tandem. Everyone is supposed to be directly or
indirectly connected to every tandem in the LATA (which you can't
independently verify, as telcodata and the LERG both show
terminating tandem information to reach that end office, not what
tandems the end office is hooked to to terminate calls.

On Aug 28, 2018 17:47, Mike Hammett <voice...@ics-il.net> wrote:

I thought you had to be on the same tandem to port a number, but
with what our tandem operator (Frontier) is telling me, this isn't
the case.

Comcast ported a number from us in town A. The LRN they pointed to
is based in town B (per TelcoData). The tandem generally used by
carriers in both towns is based in town B. Naturally, we send
traffic to that tandem.

The operator of that tandem is telling us that the LRN is actually
homed off of a different tandem in our LATA (operated by
CenturyLink) in town C. Unfortunately, I can't corroborate this
information with TelcoData the only rate center I see off of that
tandem in TelcoData is an AT&T town next door.

Where can I read up authoritatively on the porting requirements that
would apply to this and related bits of info I should know?

I'm checking on our LERG access as I know that has the authoritative
information, but I don't have that access at the moment. Maybe we're
not subscribed to it.

Number NPA-NXX in town A:

https://www.telcodata.us/search-area-code-exchange-detail?npa=815&exchange=991

LRN NPA-NXX in town B:

https://www.telcodata.us/search-area-code-exchange-detail?npa=815&exchange=901

Tandem in town B:

https://www.telcodata.us/search-switches-by-tandem-clli?cllicode=DKLBILXA50T
Tandem in town C:

https://www.telcodata.us/search-switches-by-tandem-clli?cllicode=DIXNILXA50T

Thanks.

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