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American Idol 800 Numbers
by carlos＠race.com May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

So last night I was looking around our calls flowing thru our switch noticed a big spike in calls going to toll free numbers figured out it was American idol. I started digging deeper and I noticed that none of these calls where getting a connected status back from American idol. I did some random test to the different numbers and confirmed was never getting a connection status back. I also went ahead and tested from an att / Verizon cell phones and in both cases the cell phone still saying calling while it was playing back the American idol msg. so if I'm reading everything that I have collected correctly American idol is basically using our resources without having to compensate all the different carries for the calls. Anyone else seeing this? Carlos Alcantar Race Telecommunications, Inc. 101 Haskins Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 P: 650.649.3550 x143 F: 650.649.3551 E: carlos *@* race.com

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Transnexus LCR
by tdonahue＠theaeonsolution.com May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

Hi all, We are looking LCR packages to deploy as we plan the replacement our existing Netrake SBCs. The current front-runner for the replacement SBC is AcmePacket. We found the LCR software from Transnexus, which according to their website, should be able to work with both our existing infrastructure and our future upgrade. I was wondering if anyone has any experience (good, bad or other) with Transnexus LCR or SDReporter packages they would be willing to share (on or off-list relpies are welcome) with us. Tim

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American Idol 800 Numbers
by carlos＠race.com May 6, 2010

May 6, 2010

We do have choke trunks but at the end of the day we have to pay the lec for the choke trunks so I would consider that being our resource if idol isn?t compensating for the calls, I guess what it really comes down to is what we charge the customer upfront isn?t the true value of a customer as there are other things such as res comp and 800 billing ect that make up the true value of a customer. Can anyone else confirm they are seeing the same thing where idol is not sending a connect status. Carlos Alcantar Race Telecommunications, Inc. 101 Haskins Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 P: 650.649.3550 x143 F: 650.649.3551 E: carlos *@* race.com From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of cololiberty at comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 6:15 PM To: VoiceOps at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] American Idol 800 Numbers I can't speak for most other carriers, but from what I've found from personal experience is that most carriers will set up a "choke trunk group" to a ss7 TDM for the toll free routing. This choke group will probably only have 10 cic's associated with it and then set up a method of overflow for the inevitable excess. In previous call traces I have made during American idol times, I do not see an ACM coming back, mostly it's a ANM due to no ringing and immediate answer. Having delt with customers in the past with choke groups, cell phones always seem to be able to complete calls to heavily dialed numbers in the past. It's usually an issue of the originating carriers capacity and not an issue of the terminating end's capacity. I would not say that american idol terminating end is "using resources" as we are being compensated from our customers for being able to place calls and the american idol numbers are compensated from american idol for opening and running the toll free numbers and the influx of calls. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Alcantar" <carlos at race.com> To: "VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 5:50:17 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: [VoiceOps] American Idol 800 Numbers So last night I was looking around our calls flowing thru our switch noticed a big spike in calls going to toll free numbers figured out it was American idol. I started digging deeper and I noticed that none of these calls where getting a connected status back from American idol. I did some random test to the different numbers and confirmed was never getting a connection status back. I also went ahead and tested from an att / Verizon cell phones and in both cases the cell phone still saying calling while it was playing back the American idol msg. so if I?m reading everything that I have collected correctly American idol is basically using our resources without having to compensate all the different carries for the calls. Anyone else seeing this? Carlos Alcantar Race Telecommunications, Inc. 101 Haskins Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 P: 650.649.3550 x143 F: 650.649.3551 E: carlos *@* race.com _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

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American Idol 800 Numbers
by carlos＠race.com May 6, 2010

May 6, 2010

8664365706 8664365707 8664365708 8664365709 8664365710 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Timmins [mailto:paul at timmins.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:54 PM To: Carlos Alcantar Cc: VoiceOps Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] American Idol 800 Numbers Do you have the numbers handy?

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Difference between ITP and ITP-L
by Albert.Etsebeth＠is.co.za May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010

Hi All Can anyone explain to me what the operational difference is between Cisco ITP and Cisco ITP-L Thanks Albert Please note: This email and its content are subject to the disclaimer as displayed at the following link http://www.is.co.za/legal/E-mail+Confidentiality+Notice+and+Disclaimer.htm. Should you not have Web access, send a mail to disclaimers at is.co.za and a copy will be emailed to you.

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Issues Terminating to Comcast
by cpena＠ststelecom.com May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010

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PGW 2200 (9.8.1) and ITP configuration assistance
by Albert.Etsebeth＠is.co.za May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010

Hi All Is there anyone currently using PGW2200 and ITP for SS7 signaling that can assist me with some design and configuration examples. Thanks Albert Please note: This email and its content are subject to the disclaimer as displayed at the following link http://www.is.co.za/legal/E-mail+Confidentiality+Notice+and+Disclaimer.htm. Should you not have Web access, send a mail to disclaimers at is.co.za and a copy will be emailed to you.

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Trouble calling 212 areacode
by ujjval＠simplesignal.com May 4, 2010

May 4, 2010

Anyone having problems completing calls to 212 areacode? Ujjval Karihaloo

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DIDww Outage, Problems
by beckman＠angryox.com May 4, 2010

May 4, 2010

Folks -- Just saw on Asterisk-biz that DIDww is suffering some issues. I noticed this morning that we had trouble getting to their API starting sometime between 2-3am EDT. Their website is currently non-functional with this message (as of 11:42am EDT): http://www.didww.com/ DIDWW is experiencing a severe attack on its USA servers. As a result, some of our services are suffering from intermittent outages. We are working intensively to resolve these issues and apologize to our customers for the inconvenience. Our customer care staff is of course available for all your needs by email and phone 24 hours a day at the following contact details: support at didww.com +44-20-80-99-76-99 It seems this has been going on for about 9 hours now. Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman at angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Switches being flooded by unwanted calls
by cololiberty＠comcast.net May 3, 2010

May 3, 2010

Unfortunately, I've never had luck with doing that. Mostly because the preceding carriers do not want to disclose their network connections due to proprietary information. Even with carriers you have good relations with, eventually you get stonewalled. I've only been able to go back 1 hop ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com> To: cololiberty at comcast.net Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2010 7:51:04 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: RE: [VoiceOps] Switches being flooded by unwanted calls Perhaps this is a really dumb question ? why not work with whoever operates the other side of the trunk and have them trace it back, and repeat until you?re back at the source? Frank From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of cololiberty at comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:09 PM To: VoiceOps at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Switches being flooded by unwanted calls we're interested in trying to track down the source of the calls and where they are entering the PSTN network. We have no problems seeing the trunks where it is handed off to us. especially due to the large amounts of traffic we are seeing from it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin" <zavoid at gmail.com> To: cololiberty at comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:43:11 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Switches being flooded by unwanted calls Just curious. How are you having issues tracking the trunks(virtual or real) that it is coming from? Sent from my iPhone. On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:35 PM, cololiberty at comcast.net wrote: I have a question to pose. If it's not appropriate, please let me know. My switches are currently taking in a large amount of traffic from one particular number destine for multiple terminating numbers across my CLEC users. We're having trouble tracking it down. It's coming into us via SIP and SS7 and I was wondering if anyone else was seeing anything with it as well. We have already confirmed a few other carriers seeing it as well. Originating number is 3074591039. The originating introductory messages appear sculpted and carry no originating info. Internet searches on this number brings up allot of people being bothered by this, chances may be good others out here my have users affected as well. _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

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