As far as I know, NEUSTAR is the only CA that will allow you to get a
token without using their STIR/SHAKEN services.I know that there are
multiple options for the STIR/SHAKEN products so make sure to ask about
the various products / price ranges.
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2022-06-03 10:22 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote:
Starting to collect quotes for SHAKEN cert signing from STI-CAs, and
got our first response back.
I also got whiplash at the same time.
Although I didn't have to sign an NDA or agree to any kind of
confidentiality in order to get this response, since nobody seemingly
wants to publish their pricing, I will (at least for the time being)
keep both the quote itself as well as the vendor name close to my
chest. But...dang.
Though I'm hoping to be surprised, I'm guessing that there isn't a
wide difference in pricing between various STI-CAs. Can people here
confirm that I'm likely to mostly hear same-y figures from others? Or
if there are options that are significantly cheaper than others, who
do y'all recommend that I should be talking to?
Note that I'm only talking about the CA component as a standalone
offering, though I'll observe that with very few exceptions, it also
doesn't seem like too many vendors are either willing to unbundle the
CA service from their overall "end-to-end cloud-based SHAKEN"
products, or if they are, they seemingly don't like to publicize it.
To put my response to this pricing in context, we are a relatively
small regional broadband provider, and voice is a fraction of a
fraction of our business. I'd wager just about everyone else here has
a larger voice subscriber base than we do, and most of you probably
didn't blink when you saw the price-tag on what it would take to
become part of the STIR/SHAKEN ecosystem...just the cost of doing
business, right?
We do have effective CLID anti-spoof already & have since the
beginning, and as a small provider, we also were *supposed* to have
another 12 months to get up to speed on all of this and start signing
calls...at least, that was the case until the FCC moved that timetable
up in what I can only describe as a Darth Vader-esque "altering [of]
the deal". We didn't get that memo in December but only about 3ish
months ago, and it's not like I don't have plenty of other things to
do, so I'm already coming into this project plenty pissed off...
*sigh* Anyway, I can see that the gate-keepery-ness of this industry
is still alive and well. Though I can understand wanting to keep out
the riff-raff, you would think that all of the hurdles that one needs
to clear in order to get this far -- getting an OCN, on-boarding with
the STI-PA, etc. -- would be enough without also throwing yet another
huge mandatory & ongoing expense on top of the pile as well.
Sorry. Didn't mean for this to turn into a rant, but...ugh.
--
Nathan Anderson
First Step Internet, LLC
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