On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:56:59AM -0500, BackUP Telecom Consulting wrote:
However, if you have more than 24 DS0s worth of traffic to that small ILEC area, the small ILEC can force you to install a direct connection to them. That doesn't happen very often but I've seen it happen a few times.
Ah, you've reignited my nostalgia for flying-under-the-DEOTs adventures of the managed modem boom... Picking inbound up at the tandem from Tier 3+ / rural rate centres was commonly done by CLECs providing managed modem. These were the kinds of rate centres where the Level3s, Grandecoms, etc. of the world would not go because there aren't enough ports, but there was enough traffic there to constitute more than just the occasional call. Not coincidentally, when broadband appeared, these places were the last to get it and represented most of the lingering demand for dial-up, triggering a spike in DEOT-related disputes. -- 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/