At 2/17/2012 10:59 AM, John Scrivener wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Mike Hammett
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
They just resell a national provider. Rarely do these national
providers cover areas where broadband is not already available.
 Actually Net Sapiens and Ipifony are not in the business of
"reselling a national provider". They sell hardware and managed
services for getting into the VoIP business. That is not to say they
would not help you connect with a national provider if that is the
path that one chose to get there. That is one piece of a large
puzzle they help you complete. I have talked to both companies
extensively. What I did not know was that there is more to being a
facilities based ETC than buying the gear that NetSapiens and
Ipifony sell. I wish those companies would come on here and discuss
this with you guys more but I know for a fact they are more than
just resellers of national player services as Mike has said here.
Scriv
Those are equipment vendors, not resellers. But at least from their
web site descriptions of the product, they don't talk about SS7
connectivity and IMTs, which are the heart of "Class 4" operation,
and needed to be a CLEC. So if you're in a place that has CLECs
(Level 3, Widnstream/Paetec, Earthlink, and who ever else hasn't been
rolled up yet) selling SIP trunks of PRIs, great. But if you're in
the rural areas where broadband=WISP and backhaul to a NAP = $$$$$,
then you may need to create your own CLEC switching.
FWIW, current rules (this is open in the pending FNPRM, Comments due
next Friday) are that, in general, local trunks are exchanged with
ILECs at no charge, provided you meet them inside any of their
central offices (via collocation, mid-span fiber meet, or by paying
them for the entrance facility). But toll (inter-LATA) traffic
arrives on trunks into the regional access tandem, and you usually
have to pay for that mileage at fairly high (switched access
transport) rates. Fortuantely, most trunks are local.
--
Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com
ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/
+1 617 795 2701
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