I only have direct experience with the Host Switch offering from Inteliquent. They can provide IP handoff from their CLEC to VoIP carriers, or to other CLECs depending on the LEC. CLECs lose any CABS revenue, but that's nearly as dead a Betamax anyway. You may still need to sign an ICA with the LEC even if you aren't directly connected to them. We've had a mostly positive experience moving one of our CLEC markets to this. It's much more cost-effective for us to have a single private IP interconnect with Inteliquent than to keep our own LEC interconnects, cross connects, SS7 links, etc. They can also failover traffic to our public networks, in multiple data centers. The biggest problem we had was not Inteliquent's fault. We changed the SHA on our existing CLLI and many carriers failed to update routing on the effective date. In hindsight, we probably should have used brand new POI instead of migrating existing ones. I'd love to hear from you all if there was any other way to have avoided that disruption. Regards, *Calvin Ellison* Voice Operations Engineer calvin.ellison at voxox.com +1 (213) 285-0555 ----------------------------------------------- *voxox.com <http://www.voxox.com/> * 5825 Oberlin Drive, Suite 5 San Diego, CA 92121 [image: Voxox] On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Ryan Finnesey <ryan at finnesey.com> wrote:
How many LECs are capable of providing an IP handoff so I don?t have to connect with them via TDM?
*From:* VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] *On Behalf Of *Calvin Ellison *Sent:* Thursday, March 9, 2017 4:27 PM *To:* Pete Eisengrein <peeip989 at gmail.com> *Cc:* voiceops at voiceops.org *Subject:* Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP Providers and direct NANP access
Take a look here:
https://www.nationalnanpa.com/tools/trainGuides/getting- started-for-interconnected-voip-providers.pdf
1. FCC waiver 2. File notice with States 3. OCN for IP-Enabled Services 4. Interconnect agreement with a CLEC or LEC capable of providing the IP handoff 5. POI CLLI to use as your switch in BIRRDS/LERG, SHA uses your interconnect provider's actual switch.
Contact Inteliquent about their Host Switch product for VoIP carriers. It's real and it's already happening.
Regards,
*Calvin Ellison* Voice Operations Engineer calvin.ellison at voxox.com +1 (213) 285-0555 <(213)%20285-0555>
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On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Pete Eisengrein <peeip989 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello VoiceOp'rs
In 2015 the FCC released an order which allows non-CLEC VoIP providers to get numbers directly from the NANP:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-voip-direct- access-numbering-report-and-order
This document describes in great detail, well, not much; it doesn?t really get to the heart of the matter ? the *how*. I can think of several ways it **could** be done, but don't know how it actually **is** done,
Is anyone out there doing this today or was part of the trial and willing to discuss and/or maybe point me toward more engineering-y documentation or maybe even (*gasp*) a reference architecture?
Thanks,
Pete
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