Fit wholesale voice into your switching estate.
Evaluate termination, origination and numbering alongside your telecom operations.
Defined originating traffic
Accepted technical profile
Destination-specific evaluation
Connect wholesale services to established telecom operations.
The operating model
A telco or CLEC evaluates an interconnect alongside an existing switching and numbering estate. Define the precise role of the proposed service: destination expansion, origination, termination or a specific traffic group. Keep ownership of number normalization, subscriber treatment and operational records explicit.
Technical review should follow actual call scenarios through the existing network boundary. Compare identity presentation, called-number handling and response behavior with the required service. Record portability and other operational dependencies with the responsible teams rather than leaving them implicit in a trunk configuration.
Where VirPhone fits
Define the role of wholesale services within your network. Keep numbering responsibilities, identity treatment and ownership explicit.
Define the handoff
Maintain a clear interconnect boundary between the existing switching estate and wholesale services. Document responsibility for normalization and subscriber features.
- 01Your applications
- 02Your voice infrastructure
- 03VirPhone service
- 04PSTN connectivity
Plan around your operation
Review CLI, identity, portability and escalation dependencies. Validate representative call flows with both operational teams.
Continue the technical review
Voice service
Explore the relevant connection.
Explore Voice serviceInterconnect
Review signaling and media.
Explore InterconnectOnboarding
Prepare a commercial and technical inquiry.
Explore OnboardingWhat to review with your team
| Review area | What to establish |
|---|---|
| Network fit | Switch boundary; number normalization; service and traffic scope. |
| Operational review | Identity requirements; portability dependencies; support ownership. |
| Next step | Share the proposed architecture, traffic profile and required service boundary. |
Before the next step
What should our technical team prepare?
Switch boundary; number normalization; service and traffic scope. Include known application dependencies and the people responsible for testing.
Extend your network with a documented carrier relationship
A local exchange carrier evaluating an external voice relationship needs a precise service boundary. Identify whether the project concerns outbound routes, inbound numbers or a new SIP interconnect. Exchange the required signaling and media parameters through an approved process and keep a record of the accepted configuration.
Review caller identity, numbering formats and exception handling for the intended traffic. Responsibilities depend on the service and jurisdiction; establish them in the agreement instead of inferring them from the technical diagram. Do not assume that a SIP connection supplies every regulatory or emergency-service function.
Operational acceptance belongs beside commercial acceptance
Technical tests should produce evidence for successful calls, representative failures and the defined capacity boundary. The commercial review should produce the applicable rate version and change-notice process. Bring both records into handover so engineering and billing do not work from different assumptions.
Start with prepare the interconnect review. Describe the service you operate, the part of the call path you want to change and the person responsible for technical acceptance. That gives the first discussion a concrete scope.
A practical question
Can a technical diagram define every responsibility?
No. Establish technical, commercial and applicable service responsibilities in the accepted documents. The diagram explains a handoff, not the complete agreement.