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Re: Verizon PSTN continued
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:55:44 +0000
"Centralised switching guarantees QOS!" Keep saying it and it might be true! On 11/9/06, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Chris L. Morrow wrote: >> Working with 2 other carriers on a similar issue, response I rec'd was >> congestion due to automated political dialers. Not sure if I believe >> that or not... > > you'd think they'd have systems monitoring that and trimming down the > 'fat'? or can they do that? (legally I mean, sorta like QOS for the phone > network I suppose) They can, and do. But SS7 interconnect battles between carriers are about as much fun as peering battles between ISPs, lots of finger pointing and blustering and more lawyers. If you lose SS7 links between carriers, and there is not enough SS7 capacity remaining, the SS7 systems start "flapping" (the SS7 folks probably use a different term, but it gives the IP folks some idea of what happens). It has happened a few times. I expect the SS7 vendors and protocol wizards are thinking up more clever ways to address it. It has nothing (essentially) to do with the type of calls being made, although high call volumes always make any problem worse. Another time it happened was just before Christmas a few years ago, during peak shopping time and the dialup credit card authorization numbers (and lots of other types of numbers) got jammed up during a SS7 incident as I found out doing my Christmas shopping that afternoon.
Current thread:
- Re: Verizon PSTN continued, (continued)
- Re: Verizon PSTN continued Jared Mauch (Nov 07)
- Re: Verizon PSTN continued Steve Sobol (Nov 07)
- Re: Verizon PSTN continued Greg Boehnlein (Nov 07)
- Re: Verizon PSTN continued Thomas Beecher (Nov 08)
- RE: Verizon PSTN continued Wallace Keith (Nov 07)
- RE: Verizon PSTN continued Chris L. Morrow (Nov 07)
- Re: Verizon PSTN continued virendra rode // (Nov 07)
- RE: Verizon PSTN continued Sean Donelan (Nov 09)
- SprintLink peering issue in Chicago? Olsen, Jason (Nov 09)
- Re: SprintLink peering issue in Chicago? Matthew Petach (Nov 09)
- Re: Verizon PSTN continued Alexander Harrowell (Nov 10)
- RE: Verizon PSTN continued Chris L. Morrow (Nov 07)
- Re: Verizon PSTN continued Jared Mauch (Nov 07)