Twisted

Having Multible CLEC providers isn't a problem unless they use the same facilities...

For example. If your local telco is Verizon and you order a circuit fron AT&T the circuit is still being deliver by Verizon on Verizon's equipment. ALL YOUR EGGS ARE IN THE VERIZON BASKET. Unless the third party provider is suppling services from there Central office.....STILL the last Mile is the local TELCO.

Confusing isn't it?

glehman

Hey twisted, thanks for the response!

TelCove will be running fiber into our building on their own network. They don't use the last mile of BellSouth, everything is theirs. For BellSouth obviously everything will be part of BellSouth, and use the existing equipment that's there.

How would the 3000 DID numbers we have with TelCove work in conjunction with BellSouth? Would we have to separate some DIDs to one group of PRIs and some to the other? etc...

Does anyone out there have 2 phone carriers for redundancy?

jack

G,

This is very doable with the following caveats;

1) You will need to avail your self to number portability, the DID's will need to moved from BS to TelC, they can not coexist on both carriers.

2) If your looking at a completly different DID range you will have no issues.

We used a combination of Ameritech/SBC and Winstar/IDC lines since Y2K running into several switches without any issues.

Jack

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glehman

Hey Jack, thanks for your reply!

We will be porting all the DIDs over to TelCove. What I am curious about is how we utilize the BellSouth PRI if all the DIDs have been ported to the TelCove switch?

As far as what I have been told the BS PRI will be used for backup but we would like for some calls to come into it so that we know it is "working," how would that work?

Maybe I am making it more complex than it is?

rhack

If you port all of your DID's over to Telcove, then the only thing you can use your Bellsouth PRI for is backup for outbound. Since you have it, keep it as a secondary choice in your RLI's. I am not familiar with Telcove, so I do not know if they offer any advanced AIN services. You may want to ask to see what they can do to utilize the Bell South PRI. For example, Verizon has an excellent AIN offering called Custom Redirect, you can create a plan that contains all of your DID's or selected numbers. In the event of a PBX or trunk group outage, you can either have the plan set to automatically terminate to another termination or invoke it yourself. So... in your case, lets say you keep a portion of your DID range on Bellsouth or a new range altogether. In the event of an outage, you can repoint your COO's and other important numbers to new or retained DID's on the old Bell South PRI. Then just have LSC's reated for the new DID's, and have the LSC's mapped to the "real" DID. If going from a Verizon to Verizon facility, they have the capability of sending any digits you want, very flexible. AIN services will cost you, butt it may be well worth it. Bellsouth offers a similiar service called Crisis Link. It is very expensive and offers less functionality in comparison to the Verizon offering.

Twisted

For building a better backup plan look into "switch redirect" where if one of your providers goes down you can redirect the numbers to the other provider...this can be expensive so you would probably setup the redirect on chosen numbers.

It's Kinda like Call forward from the Central office level.