So meeting the switch at each rate center is free, but meeting at the
tandem costs money?
I had always thought that you built to a tandem for $X and if your
traffic with a given switch exceeded a certain amount, you then
connected to that tandem and then each switch at $X*Y where Y is the
number of switches you connect to.
Then again, I'm not a CLEC.
-----
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
On 2/17/2012 10:21 AM, Fred Goldstein wrote:
At 2/17/2012 10:59 AM, John Scrivener wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Mike Hammett
<wispawirel...@ics-il.net <mailto:wispawirel...@ics-il.net> > wrote:
They just resell a national provider. Rarely do these national
providers cover areas where broadband is not already available.
 Actually Net Sapiens and Ipifony are not in the business of
"reselling a national provider". They sell hardware and managed
services for getting into the VoIP business. That is not to say they
would not help you connect with a national provider if that is the
path that one chose to get there. That is one piece of a large puzzle
they help you complete. I have talked to both companies extensively.
What I did not know was that there is more to being a facilities
based ETC than buying the gear that NetSapiens and Ipifony sell. I
wish those companies would come on here and discuss this with you
guys more but I know for a fact they are more than just resellers of
national player services as Mike has said here.
Scriv
Those are equipment vendors, not resellers. But at least from their
web site descriptions of the product, they don't talk about SS7
connectivity and IMTs, which are the heart of "Class 4" operation, and
needed to be a CLEC. So if you're in a place that has CLECs (Level 3,
Widnstream/Paetec, Earthlink, and who ever else hasn't been rolled up
yet) selling SIP trunks of PRIs, great. But if you're in the rural
areas where broadband=WISP and backhaul to a NAP = $$$$$, then you may
need to create your own CLEC switching.
FWIW, current rules (this is open in the pending FNPRM, Comments due
next Friday) are that, in general, local trunks are exchanged with
ILECs at no charge, provided you meet them inside any of their central
offices (via collocation, mid-span fiber meet, or by paying them for
the entrance facility). But toll (inter-LATA) traffic arrives on
trunks into the regional access tandem, and you usually have to pay
for that mileage at fairly high (switched access transport) rates.
Fortuantely, most trunks are local.
--
Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com
ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/
+1 617 795 2701
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