Re: [VoiceOps] Fax

2024-04-18 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
If you must use SIP, try using T.38 (make sure your upstream provider supports it). If for some reason you can't, use G.711 (and not any compressed codec). You could also replace your ATAs with something like this: https://www.voipsupply.com/manufacturer/sangoma/sangoma-fax-station-applliances

Re: [VoiceOps] One Way Audio - Frontier Comm (Los Angeles area)

2024-03-07 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
You could try emailing noc@ftr.com or asking on NANOG. On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, 12:16 PM Jim Rodgers via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote: > Beginning early yesterday, we're seeing dropped voice rtp traffic to some > of our business customers in the Los Angeles metro area on Frontier Comm

Re: [VoiceOps] Sales contacts at Ribbon, Audiocodes

2023-11-14 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
Thanks to everyone who responded! I received several contacts at Ribbon (and I was able to connect with someone today), but none at Audiocodes. If anyone has an Audiocodes sales contact I'd appreciate it. :) On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 6:24 PM Ross Tajvar wrote: > Does anyone have sales conta

[VoiceOps] Sales contacts at Ribbon, Audiocodes

2023-11-07 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
Does anyone have sales contacts at Ribbon or Audiocodes (for SBCs) they could share with me? I'm allergic to filling out "contact us" forms, and apparently my old contacts have moved on. ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org

Re: [VoiceOps] Voice Peering

2023-10-25 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
, and with no motivation > by NANPA or the larger carriers to make calls less expensive for the > reseller or end user, I see this going nowhere. Until there is some value > in NANPA (plus all the other country telephony organizations) and the > direct carriers leasing numbers to do s

Re: [VoiceOps] Voice Peering

2023-10-24 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
We need BGP for VoIP! Wait no that's worse... /s Jokes aside, my understanding of the way people do VoIP routing for private peer interconnection is by looking up the OCN at call time and routing on that. That way you don't have to worry about verifying individual numbers, or keeping

Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

2023-10-17 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
This sounds like a carrier with a lot of SIP peers, which is already a thing that exists today. It also requires a lot of time and work to build, because you need some traffic for the other side to justify the cost to interconnect with you. On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 5:05 PM Jawaid Bazyar via VoiceOps

Re: [VoiceOps] No-commit international calling

2023-07-13 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
GSM >> gateway option that costs them 0.02 per minute they will issue you a rate >> of say 0.3 per minute and if the GW is busy simply reject your calls. This >> they they win whatever traffic you have going to them based on your A-Z >> routing. I would tell you to look at

[VoiceOps] No-commit international calling

2023-07-13 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
Hi all, I have an asterisk PBX for personal/business use. I use Flowroute for both origination and termination. Recently I've started needing to make some international calls (specifically mostly to the UK, but also some other places in Europe and Australia). There've been a few numbers where

Re: [VoiceOps] dynect oracle end of life

2023-05-23 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
Depending on your use-case, you may have success with DIY: https://github.com/crazy-max/ddns-route53 On Tue, May 23, 2023, 4:29 PM Dovid Bender via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote: > We have been using dnsmadeeasy and it's been great. Not sure if they offer > a migration tool. > > On

Re: [VoiceOps] Off-Net Numbers

2023-03-17 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
Surely you have commercial relationships with these entities, and can work backward from "who am I paying?"? On Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 4:26 PM Mike Hammett via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote: > Historically, we used multiple entities to get us off-net numbers. Who, > what, when, I don't

Re: [VoiceOps] onvoy contacts?

2022-12-02 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
Are youasking for advice on how to stalk people? On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 6:54 PM jd via VoiceOps wrote: > Can anyone from onvoy contact me off list? > > > > Also, what is the best path for cyber stalking using sms from a voip > provider? > > > > thanks >

Re: [VoiceOps] Splitting voice and SMS

2022-08-17 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
SMS routing is generally handled by NetNumber's routing database (the name escapes me at the moment). NNIDs are the routing identifiers that they use - perhaps they meant NNID vs SSID? Twilio has a "hosted messaging" service, I think, which is where they SMS-enable your number on their platform

Re: [VoiceOps] [External] Re: 9-8-8 dialing when an outside line access code (9) is being used

2022-07-18 Thread Ross Tajvar
> > If you still want to allow 7-digit dialing and have a local 88X prefix, > or if your dialplan allows 10-digit calls without a leading 1, then yes, > you'll need a timeout. Or make it 9-988 until they pass another law. > I think they already did:

Re: [VoiceOps] [External] Re: 9-8-8 dialing when an outside line access code (9) is being used

2022-07-18 Thread Ross Tajvar
re: dialing 9 - I understand the plight of having to deal with legacy expectations, but what's the point of sticking with this particular one? What makes it not-useless? On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 12:29 AM Hunter Fuller wrote: > > We operate a system with the "dial 9" scheme (apparently "useless" >

Re: [VoiceOps] Comcast rejecting port requests for 4 months

2022-06-16 Thread Ross Tajvar
> On 6/16/2022 5:21 PM, Ross Tajvar wrote: > > At Comcast, when you file an FCC complaint, it goes to these people (as of > a couple years ago, might be different people now): > > William Landis | Engineer 3, Business Escalations > 1415 West Diehl Road, Naperville, IL 60563 > Off

Re: [VoiceOps] Comcast rejecting port requests for 4 months

2022-06-16 Thread Ross Tajvar
At Comcast, when you file an FCC complaint, it goes to these people (as of a couple years ago, might be different people now): William Landis | Engineer 3, Business Escalations 1415 West Diehl Road, Naperville, IL 60563 Office: (331) 814-3041 william_lan...@comcast.com his boss: Jeff Cox |

Re: [VoiceOps] Vitelity Inbound SMS Outage March 27, 2022 0150 to 1720 UTC

2022-03-27 Thread Ross Tajvar
Sounds like you need to find another provider...? On Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 7:10 PM Peter Beckman wrote: > Vitelity hasn't posted anything about this, so I will for those that care. > > Short Version: Inbound SMS to all Vitelity DIDs failed between 0150 UTC and > 1720 UTC on March 27, 2022 > > Long

[VoiceOps] BackUP Telecom Consulting Contact

2022-03-16 Thread Ross Tajvar
Anyone know how to get in touch with Mary Lou Carey? I've sent her a few emails but haven't gotten a response. ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Re: [VoiceOps] NetNumber CarrierID Access, Indirect / Reseller

2022-02-02 Thread Ross Tajvar
I would be interested in this. On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 2:29 AM Peter Beckman wrote: > I'd like access to NetNumber CarrierID API to ensure that NNIDs (SMS > Routing) for our DIDs are correct and do not change unexpectedly, with or > without authorization. NetNumber charges $500 per month minimum,

Re: [VoiceOps] thinQ is making hay while Bandwidth is down

2021-09-27 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
Windstream and Lumen are terrible for that on wireline. On Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 6:35 PM Carlos Alvarez wrote: > Additionally, I've experienced a number of these cellular ports that > seemed hung in mid-port, where some calls flowed to the wrong carrier and > would die there. The most amusing

Re: [VoiceOps] Bandwidth East Coast Issues

2021-09-27 Thread Ross Tajvar via VoiceOps
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 5:24 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > I have IXes in areas where Inteliquent and Peerless have POPs. They > haven't had any interest. > > I don't understand. > I understand. Serious customers will pay for a PNI. Industry partners (other large telcos with whom they exchange a

Re: [VoiceOps] Wholesale Platforms - 2021 Edition

2021-08-26 Thread Ross Tajvar
I've used 2600hz and found it immature. Lots of bugs and design issues. When it worked it was nice, but when it didn't work you were out of luck. Support wasn't very good either. This was about a year ago - maybe it's better now. On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 10:07 PM Chris Wallace wrote: > Metaswitch

Re: [VoiceOps] Wholesale Platforms - 2021 Edition

2021-08-25 Thread Ross Tajvar
I wish more people would reply-all to the list instead of going unicast. I am interested in the answer, but I don't think it makes sense for every interested party to respond "please email me too" when that's what the list is for. On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 3:57 PM Mary Lou Carey wrote: > I got

Re: [VoiceOps] Bandwidth vs Inteliquent

2021-07-07 Thread Ross Tajvar
> I don't know of any resellers of Bandwidth that would allow you direct access to the Bandwidth API. The API is based on Account and you'd have access to the full reseller account. I believe Bandwidth allows subaccounts. On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 10:08 PM Peter Beckman wrote: > I've been happy

Re: [VoiceOps] AT Verizon to block text messaging

2021-03-04 Thread Ross Tajvar
Is ther a reference on this? Or a news article or something? On Thu, Mar 4, 2021, 11:42 AM Alex Balashov wrote: > Sounds pretty dark and dystopian. > > On 3/4/21 11:29 AM, Oren Yehezkely wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone have some deep knowledge about AT and Verizon's move to > > create

Re: [VoiceOps] Voice peering

2021-01-05 Thread Ross Tajvar
et Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > > -- > *From: *"Ross Tajvar" > *To: *"VoiceOps" > *Sent: *Tuesday, January 5, 2021 7:57:12 AM > *Subject: *[VoiceOps] Voice peering > > Based on this presentation [0] from Comcast, they are interconnecting w

[VoiceOps] Voice peering

2021-01-05 Thread Ross Tajvar
Based on this presentation [0] from Comcast, they are interconnecting with their biggest voice peers via SIP rather than SS7. They appear to use ENUM for route selection. I'm sure others are doing this too, though I can't find anything public. I'm interested if anyone has more info on how this

Re: [VoiceOps] Question about SS7 routing

2020-09-02 Thread Ross Tajvar
uit, > and you would send it to the point code of the switch you're connected to > that is the appropriate next hop for the call. > > > -- > *From:* VoiceOps on behalf of Ross Tajvar > > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 2, 2020 5:46 PM > *To:* VoiceOp

[VoiceOps] Question about SS7 routing

2020-09-02 Thread Ross Tajvar
Hi all, I'm trying to understand how routing works in SS7-land. I am familiar with portability, and I know (at least in the US) the first step in routing a call is doing an LNP dip to get the LRN. However, it looks like addresses in MTP3 are "point codes" (PCs) which are assigned to switches.

Re: [VoiceOps] Comcast - Data Side?

2020-08-14 Thread Ross Tajvar
Traceroutes in both directions during the problem period will make this much easier to address. On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 1:48 PM Mark Wiles wrote: > Anyone from Comcast monitoring here? > > > > I know it’s a long shot; but, we have a wholesale partner in GA that > resells our hosted services. > >

Re: [VoiceOps] Mobile numbers for SMS

2020-07-19 Thread Ross Tajvar
I'm also interested in this. On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 4:22 PM Dovid Bender wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have access to true mobile numbers for SMS (numbers that when > a lookup is done, it will show the numbers as being truly mobile and not a > regular number that can get SMS)? I am working on a

Re: [VoiceOps] Get ready for a weird dialplan change. 9-8-8 suicide hotline.

2020-07-18 Thread Ross Tajvar
This is very cool! Should we (as a VoIP reseller/not a CLEC) be doing this forward or should we expect our upstreams to do it? On Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 10:53 PM Mark R Lindsey, ECG wrote: > Fortunately, all we have to do is setup call forwarding for 988 calls to > go to +1-800-273-8255 > > If

Re: [VoiceOps] Charter/Spectrum Port Out?

2020-07-15 Thread Ross Tajvar
I've done the same thing with Bandwidth before. A capable porting team makes a big difference. On Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 2:51 PM chris wrote: > > Glad we could help you sort through this. We know how painful these > situations can be sometimes :) > > chris > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:33 PM Aaron

Re: [VoiceOps] Charter/Spectrum Port Out?

2020-06-17 Thread Ross Tajvar
Sounds like they're jerking you around, and it's time to file a complaint with the FCC. On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 4:20 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote: > Someone messaged me off-list. I should have been clearer. > We *have* included a copy of the bill and their

Re: [VoiceOps] Outages - T-Mobile?

2020-06-17 Thread Ross Tajvar
"The trigger event is known to be a leased fiber circuit failure from a third party provider in the Southeast." Wonder who the carrier is? They have some poor redundancy if one circuit failure caused a national outage. On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 3:53 PM Jared Geiger wrote: >

Re: [VoiceOps] Multi-tenant Fax Server

2020-04-20 Thread Ross Tajvar
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 10:01 PM Ball, Jared wrote: > Many customers still send faxes. I know that this angers some people and > they don't see the point. It does take 30 seconds to train someone on how > to send a fax and it takes a lot longer to teach someone who is not > computer savvy to

Re: [VoiceOps] Multi-tenant Fax Server

2020-04-17 Thread Ross Tajvar
FreePBX has a commercial module that has worked for me in the past, though their software release quality and support often leaves something to be desired. On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 3:05 PM Ryan Delgrosso wrote: > My first suggestion is its not so hard to roll your own on top of > freeswitch but if

Re: [VoiceOps] PSTN Info

2020-02-26 Thread Ross Tajvar
twork Engineer that is > like > >>> the walking "Encyclopedia of Telecom"! I've brought him in on numerous > jobs > >>> when my needed help with picking equipment or the best method for > operations > >>> and he's always been helpful. &

[VoiceOps] PSTN Info

2020-02-25 Thread Ross Tajvar
Hi all, I am looking for some resources to help me understand how to interact with the PSTN more directly. I have worked for companies which offered VoIP service, but we've always used other carriers upstream (e.g. Bandwidth, Flowroute, etc.). I've found a few references to the regulatory process

[VoiceOps] Visible Wireless security contact

2019-12-19 Thread Ross Tajvar
I'm looking to get in touch with someone on the Visible Wireless security team. If you have a contact please shoot me their info. Thanks, Ross ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Re: [VoiceOps] Who do we call - 3rd plus party carrier issues affecting local customers

2019-08-20 Thread Ross Tajvar
In my experience, filing an FCC complaint does a lot to motivate someone (usually someone with some away) from the carrier in question to speak to you. On Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 10:45 PM Jamie Montgomery < jamie.montgom...@comporium.com> wrote: > Greetings.. > > > > Looking for the proper way to

Re: [VoiceOps] looking for IVR PBX Workflow template

2019-07-29 Thread Ross Tajvar
I don't know of any special purpose software that does this. I just use regular diagramming software. I'm partial to draw.io. On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 9:47 AM Izzy Goldstein - TeleGo wrote: > i need something that will draw the call flow > lets say it will start by a DID, and go thru clauses to

Re: [VoiceOps] Windstream Translations?

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Tajvar
Here's what I have regarding porting out. Hopefully something here will help you. Good luck, my experience with them has been terrible. Port Out - Taking #s from Windstream to other companies. (PON#) Toll Free: 8008651498 Email: wci.scsc.ls...@windstream.com Escalation Process: 1st Level: