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SBCs - Ribbon and AudioCodes
by ryan＠finnesey.com Aug. 9, 2018

Aug. 9, 2018

I am going to have to install a series of SBCs for a? voice offering connected to Microsoft Teams.? We are going to pass the SIP traffic off to a large number of SIP providers.? I would like? to get some feedback from the group on SBCs from Ribbon and AudioCodes . I am leaning towards a software based SBC over an appliance. Would be helpful to get the other members feedback on Ribbon or AudioCodes deployments within their networks. Cheers Ryan

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Phone auth for incoming calls?
by caalvarez＠gmail.com Aug. 8, 2018

Aug. 8, 2018

You're right, most phones have both options also. However I'm not sure how the "same server" is applied for a phone behind NAT. Would the phone actually know where the call came from? I've never tried it. Alex, it does work fine with Asterisk, at least on a small scale test. But the fear of changing something so drastic on thousands of phones lead me to asking about it here. On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:48 AM David Knell <david.knell at telng.com> wrote: > Been there, had that :-) Auth works; you might also find an option to > only accept calls from the server to which the phone's registered. > > --Dave > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:43 PM, Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Do most of you have the phones authenticate incoming calls? We haven't >> been, but occasionally find a router that has unfiltered full cone NAT >> (Cisco) or that puts one phone on 5060 with no filtering by IP. The result >> is that the phone will start ringing at random as script kiddies hit the IP >> and port 5060 trying to find servers to exploit. I don't see a downside to >> changing to auth, but not having done it outside of a few tests of a small >> number of phones, I figured I would ask. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> VoiceOps at voiceops.org >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >> >> > > > -- > > David Knell, Director, TelNG > T: +44 1223 797979 / +1 970-315-4721 > W: http://www.telng.com > H: http://www.daveknell.com > >

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Ribbon Communions formally Sonus
by ryan＠finnesey.com Aug. 3, 2018

Aug. 3, 2018

I am looking to have a conversation with someone at Ribbon Communions formally Sonus that works with CLECs and Service Providers. I am hoping someone on the list may be able to make an introduction.

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NPAC Transition
by voiceops＠ics-il.net July 25, 2018

July 25, 2018

So NPAC recently moved from NeuStar to iconectiv. As far as I was aware, my client just used them for a portal to do number ports. I see all kinds of things about costs of VPNs, DS1s, 100 meg Ethernet, etc. All of that seems awfully ancillary to being a portal for entering port requests. What else do they do? Should I be interested in it? Neustar still thinks that they're the ones handling our porting, but as far as I can tell, the running of that transferred from Neustar to iconectiv. If iconectiv is running the system now, why would I want to use someone else for port order entry? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

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CABS\Intercarrier Compensation Billing
by voiceops＠ics-il.net July 5, 2018

July 5, 2018

My client is asking me to setup CABS billing for them. I only really see this being relevant to inter-carrier compensation. Where can I find more resources about how that works? Is inter-carrier compensation is something we'd be billing the tandem operator or each company sending us calls? Note: I'm primarily a data\SIP guy, but I've been thrown into telco hell. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

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CABS\Intercarrier Compensation Billing
by matthew＠corp.crocker.com July 5, 2018

July 5, 2018

We used to bill CABS through Mid American Computer corp. They would eat up our CDRs and the data feed from the Verizon tandem. Generate CABS invoice and mail to the carrier. They would also act as an aggregator for the smaller carriers so we wouldn?t spend $1 to generate a $0.3 invoice https://maccnet.com/ -Matt -- Matthew Crocker Crocker Communications, Inc. President From: VoiceOps <voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org> on behalf of Mike Hammett <voiceops at ics-il.net> Date: Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 2:26 PM To: Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> Cc: "voiceops at voiceops.org" <voiceops at voiceops.org> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] CABSIntercarrier Compensation Billing Right. I got the 30k foot view (apparently short of who receives the bill). Looking to get a bit deeper. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ________________________________ From: "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com> To: "Mike Hammett" <voiceops at ics-il.net> Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 2:21:43 PM Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] CABS\Intercarrier Compensation Billing Intercarrier compensation of the CABS variety is where a LEC bills the IXC for inter-LATA calls terminated to them by that IXC. On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 02:19:57PM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > > My client is asking me to setup CABS billing for them. I only really see this being relevant to inter-carrier compensation. Where can I find more resources about how that works? > > Is inter-carrier compensation is something we'd be billing the tandem operator or each company sending us calls? > > Note: I'm primarily a data\SIP guy, but I've been thrown into telco hell. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > VoiceOps at voiceops.org > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/

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Cisco/Broadsoft PaaS
by matthew＠corp.crocker.com June 29, 2018

June 29, 2018

Is anyone on the list using BroadCloud / Broadsoft PaaS? If so can you send me your impression/reliability, etc? I?m currently running an inhouse broadworks switch, thinking about moving to PaaS. Broadsoft is pushing hard but I want to make sure it is something that will work -Matt -- Matthew Crocker Crocker Communications, Inc. President

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Vonage Port Department
by voiceops＠ics-il.net June 28, 2018

June 28, 2018

Could I get a contact in Vonage's port department? Level 3 is the underlying CLEC, but obviously, there's some relationship there being managed. We've been getting the run-around for a month trying to complete a port out. We've been working with our mutual customer and regular Vonage customer support, but that's often contradictory and thus far unsuccessful. The customer service rep said that the porting department only works via email and wouldn't give us anyone's email. Our last instruction was, "Angela from Vonage said to resubmit the port request again due to the numbers being in migration and that cleared today." which is the same thing they told us about 10 days ago, but apparently, that didn't work. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

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Vonage Port Department
by caalvarez＠gmail.com June 28, 2018

June 28, 2018

I'm thinking it's not malicious, but probably just stupid. Then again, Telesphere was rather sleazy-feeling, and Vonage doesn't seem to have changed them. The pending order issue has hit us a few times. They seem to have been internal orders between Telesphere and Vonage. When we pressed with a statement from the customer saying they had not placed any orders, the ports completed a short time later. Most of our Telesphere ports were handled by Intelliquent, some by thinQ. Of the two, thinQ was far better at handling them when something went wrong. On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:31 AM Mike Hammett <voiceops at ics-il.net> wrote: > We did verify the CSR information. All but one phone number was correct. > There other phone number had the correct address, but a zip code of > something like 1 2 3 4 5. Seems like something intentionally set up to > cause ports to fail. > > The problems that we've been having lately have ranged from there's a > pending order, which there was not. We got that one a few times. Now this > is the second time they tell us that they have everything cleared and that > it should be good to go. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com> > To: voiceops at ics-il.net > Sent: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:23:06 -0500 (CDT) > Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Vonage Port Department > > I don't know that I can help much, but we certainly have had a LOT of > issues with Vonage. They seem to be mostly on numbers that were previously > with Telesphere, who they bought out. Many of them failed because > Telesphere had their own address on them. So you might ask your provider > "is the billing address this?" In a few cases, that worked, they said yes, > and completed the ports. > > This is the Telesphere address: 9237 East V?a de Ventura, Scottsdale, AZ > 85258 > > Another partial success has been telling the customer to call Vonage and > get a CSR. Partial because their idea of a CSR is a spreadsheet that may > or may not be correct, but when it is, voil?. And even when it's not, it > shows our porting provider that we tried, and the customer clearly does > have a proper relationship with Vonage. > > Good luck. > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:17 AM Mike Hammett <voiceops at ics-il.net> wrote: > > > Could I get a contact in Vonage's port department? Level 3 is the > > underlying CLEC, but obviously, there's some relationship there being > > managed. We've been getting the run-around for a month trying to > complete a > > port out. We've been working with our mutual customer and regular Vonage > > customer support, but that's often contradictory and thus far > unsuccessful. > > > > The customer service rep said that the porting department only works via > > email and wouldn't give us anyone's email. > > > > Our last instruction was, "Angela from Vonage said to resubmit the port > > request again due to the numbers being in migration and that cleared > > today." which is the same thing they told us about 10 days ago, but > > apparently, that didn't work. > > > > > > > > ----- > > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > VoiceOps mailing list > > VoiceOps at voiceops.org > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > > >

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New blog article: Kamailio as an SBC - five years on
by abalashov＠evaristesys.com June 20, 2018

June 20, 2018

This is an update to my 2013-era article on the subject, and thought it might be of interest to some of you: http://www.evaristesys.com/blog/kamailio-as-an-sbc-five-years-on/ -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/

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