Yes, number of Tandem trunks and/or PRIs. Remember that Level 3's voice service was born out of their managed modem service. As the modem business (especially that of their really large wholesale customers) started declining, that capacity was converted to (or shared with) IP media gateways. Therefore areas that didn't have a large capacity in the modem world didn't have a large capacity for calls. Since the voice services have grown rapidly, lots of capacity has been added as needed in different areas, but like all carriers there are cost analysis's that go into where to add capacity and when. We have had a few issues recently with customer complaints on this very topic, and when I opened a Level 3 ticket for intermittent completion issues, I was told that they have a capacity issue based on the fact that for the given NPA-NXX, the capacity being requested far exceeds the population and expected population growth of the area. Based on that, Level 3 was not planning on adding a lot of capacity into that area any time soon. I passed this response on to the customer and recommended they bring this up with their conferencing provider. I believe that eventually the carriers that are offering these free conferencing services will see that they are losing business based on their practices and make appropriate changes, but we'll see how long that takes. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:23 PM To: Ujjval Karihaloo Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Conferencing NPAs Ujjval Karihaloo wrote:
Level 3 reported that they have less bandwidth to those LECs to carriers
That doesn't make any sense. Bandwidth in what respect? Size of trunk groups in access tandem links? Those places are in low-populated areas; it is logical to expect their facilities to be less dense there than in metro markets. That's not really "bandwidth" in the conventional sense, either way. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops