At 2/17/2012 08:53 AM, John Scrivner wrote:
If I am not mistaken, WISPA has a couple of Vendor Members who
already sell a turnkey solution to this, Ipiphony and NetSapiens
both sell complete switch solutions to provide full-blown CLEC level
services via VoIP I believe. It may be that I am not understanding
what you are proposing though. Any help along these lines is much
appreciated. I am certainly no telco specialist so don't let me stop
the ideas from coming.Â
John Scrivner
I'm not talking about buying your own VoIP call agent ("softswitch"),
but about obtaining it as a service. The vast majority of VoIP
platforms, including the ones you site, are basically PBXs. They do
not directly interface to ILEC tandem switches or the SS7
network. Rather, they assume that you can buy PRIs or SIP trunks
from a legacy CLEC in your area, probably off of that DMS-500 first
installed in 1998 to serve modems. So that company is the CLEC and
you're a value-added VoIP retailer. That's a perfectly okay model if
you have a good CLEC in your area. But you might not.
The rent-a-call-agent model I'm talking about is to take the place of
that old DMS, not the PBX/Centrex function. So it would take
InterMachine Trunks from the ILEC, who sends the signaling across the
SS7 network to the call agent (remotely). You'd then get SIP off of
your own local media gateway, and could feed that into a feature
server or your choice of VoIP platform, or just feed the VoIP
POTS-type lines (what you need ot be an "unsubsidized competitor")
directly from the gateway into your network. You're the CLEC, not
the company who bought the company that bought a DMS-500. But your
"switch" is just a local gateway, like an Audiocodes Mediant 2000,
and it's managed as a service.
Does that clarify things?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Fred R. Goldstein
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
The current FCC rules per November's CAF order allow ILECs to be
subsidized to provide "broadband" unless there is an "unsubsidized
competitor" who provides both voice and data service. Â Jack Unger has
written an excellent petition to the FCC to change that to allow it
to be "unsubsidized competition", wherein the data provider needn't
be the voice provider. Â But there's no guarantee that the FCC
(currently down to three seated Commissioners) will take such action.
A WISP can provide the needed voice service via VoIP. Â It need not be
a certificated CLEC. Â However, to get the VoIP service and local
numbers, it still needs a CLEC with a connection to (at minimum) the
tandem switch serving its area. Â In some rural areas, this might not
be available. Â So the WISP might need to create a CLEC, or at least
get one to serve its area.
While the traditional approach to starting a CLEC requires a
"switch", that rather costly item, which a lot of ISPs don't want to
have to manage, can be finessed by using a remote gateway. Â At least
one CLEC I'm working with offers a remote "rent a call agent"
service, where there Class 4/5 call agent, which is equipped with
Signaling System 7 (a big expense), can serve gateways anywhere,
passing signaling (H.248) across the Internet or, ideally, a VPN. Â So
the rural CLEC just has a media gateway and SBC, and orders trunks
into the local central office. Â The VoIP side of the gateway then
feeds the subscribers.
I'm trying to assess whether it's worth anyone's pursuing to set this
up as an offering for WISPs. Does anyone see a market for this type
of service? Â Would it help anyone meet the "unsubsidized competitor"
requirement? Â Thanks...
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