The question was (essentially) about mitigating the impact of an SS7 outage (disguised as a question about who provides SS7 these days (nobody, if they can avoid it)). If the SS7 links go down and you only have a small amount of your traffic affected, I call that a huge win.
> On Jan 23, 2022, at 6:33 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well right, but wouldn't I still need all of the same stuff (perhaps a few > less trunks to specific switches, only now I have fewer minutes to spread the > costs over? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com <http://www.ics-il.com/> > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > > > > From: "Paul Timmins" <[email protected]> > To: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> > Cc: "voiceops" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 12:01:01 AM > Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape > > Even without IPES you can switch your feature group D to voip through these > aggregators and get rid of basically everything that isn't the local LEC's > legacy network. > > > On Jan 22, 2022, at 7:03 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Sure, but then I just transfer the problem to someone else, until the > traditional PSTN goes away or modernizes. I am working on IPES for expansion > markets, though. > > Also, for my home LATA, I'm needing to be in the same building as the primary > tandem, so it's kind of a selling point for large customers in that area that > I would have fewer opportunities for failures. I don't have to go to Chicago > and back to get to the operator in the next row of racks over. Though, I > suppose my SS7 diversity and availability is the weakness, not the actual > call path. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com <http://www.ics-il.com/> > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > > > > From: "Paul Timmins" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Cc: "voiceops" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2022 1:46:46 PM > Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape > > Reduce your reliance on it more and more. Switch to IP tandems > (Inteliquent/Peerless/etc) and ip interconnect. The people who make and > support SS7 equipment are in a dying market, the brain drain on it is immense > as people retire, and the longer you rely on it, the worse it's gonna get. > > TNS is a big dog in the space. But that's not saying much anymore. > > > On Jan 22, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > We currently get our SS7 via TNS. I (maybe incorrectly) understand them to be > a big dog in that space. > > I've had two major problems with them in six months. > > What are my alternatives? Are they less pleasant? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com <http://www.ics-il.com/> > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > <https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops> > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > <https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops>
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