At the suggestion of this mailing list, I started pursuing the IVP/IPES route
instead of trying to do my expansions via CLEC authority.
I've had conversations with a few companies to enable the IPES services,
Verizon, Inteliquent, Intrado (West), and Peerless. I haven't talked to Wide
Voice because their stated coverage is inadequate. I haven't talked to Level 3
because they never answered me.
* One of the conversations went nowhere because while they knew what I was
talking about, they didn't think they had a product for that. Their rates for
adjacent services were actually reasonable.
* One had it productized, but had a 5 figure minimum monthly commit. The
stated reason was that the LECs are a pain and they wanted to make sure they
had a decent return before they committed resources.
* One had only part of the solution, still requiring me to build out the
tandems myself for the ILEC interconnection.
* One had it productized and had no monthly minimum.
Okay, so four very different responses from four companies. The one seems like
the a slam dunk, but being a slam drunk in the face of such difficulty, I
become skeptical. We're coming from a TDM, voice CLEC background, not a retail
SIP provider background. Is there something I'm underestimating in this
process?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
To: "VoiceOps" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 2:42:37 PM
Subject: [VoiceOps] Connecting to Remote Tandems
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 need to build out to connect to the local tandem, what's the
point in using a third party to connect to long distance?
Are the terms for connecting to the local tandems different because the access
tandem is simpler, whereas the local tandem could potentially involve
connections to a bunch of other switches, once volume dictated I needed direct
connections... and they don't want to deal with that?
Are there third parties that don't have vastly different terms for local tandem
services?
Also, is it likely that I just don't understand what's going on? I went circles
with the sales rep to make sure I understood what he was saying, but I could be
wrong.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com
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