There are pros and cons to everything. It sounds like in your case you
may just want to keep your ISUP trunks and SS7 links, but maybe look at
another provider for SS7. Syniverse is also an option but I'm not sure
if their service has gone downhill like TNS' apparently has.
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2022-01-25 10:38 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
Right, but as I said earlier, I'm already in the same building as the
tandem, so I'm just adding points of failure for moving an existing
operation somewhere else.
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Intelligent Computing Solutions
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From: "Mary Lou Carey" <[email protected]>
To: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul Timmins" <[email protected]>, "voiceops"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 10:42:22 PM
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape
When you use a PSTN connection provider you route your traffic to them
via SIP and they handle all the SS7 so you can eliminate your direct
LIS
trunks with the LEC and your SS7 Links.
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2022-01-23 05:33 AM, Mike Hammett 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?
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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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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]>
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.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com [1]
Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com [2]
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From: "Paul Timmins" <[email protected]>
To: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
Cc: "voiceops" <[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]>
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?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com [1]
Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com [2]
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