Providing a Global Presence

ANI Networks has a fully deployed and sophisticated digital switching network using Sonus Networks, the premier “Next-Generation” Soft-Switch technology, for emerging Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) for incoming/origination as well as outgoing/termination interconnections. ANI has a fully meshed Internet Protocol (IP) network of private MPLS connectivity, and Public-IP via Tier-I carriers, and over a hundred traditional Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Sonus trunk ports at DS-3 signaling levels.

ANI has three (3) switching centers in the USA, one at One Wilshire in Los Angeles California, one at 60 Hudson Street in New York City New York and 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas Texas, each with a fully redundant Sun Micro-Systems processing clusters and dual Sonus GSX-9000 series Gateways. ANI augments the Sonus network with traditional TDM switching based on Alcatel 600ES MegaHub and NACT Dual-IPAX switches. ANI also has a switching center at the Bonnington House in London England. Additional Points-Of-Presence for customer and carrier interconnections are in Chicago Illinois USA, Toronto Canada, Dublin Ireland and Sydney Australia. ANI Networks has customers in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia.

The ingress network switches are connected to Tier I providers, for both incoming Direct Dial and Toll Free calls, by diversely routed interconnections at DS-3 high capacity digital facilities and Optical Fiber connections in all cities for TDM traffic, and Public-IP Tier I Internet Service Providers for SIP traffic. Through a highly complex Least Cost Routing (LCR) engine and switch interface, ANI provides over forty-five (45) termination (or egress) route choices on Tier I, II & III providers for granular Intra-state, Inter-state and International call completions, based on “partitions” offering several Grades Of Service (GOS).

ANI’s network has ‘extended reach’ with Non-Geographic Numbers (NGN) from thirty one (31) countries, International Direct-Dial In (IDDI) services from thirty seven (37) countries, along with International Toll Free Service (ITFS) and Universal International Freephone Number (UIFN) from one hundred and one (101) counties for either dedicated TDM interconnections in the USA & the UK, or SIP interconnections world-wide. NGN are 'in-country' domestic Toll Free/Freephone numbers, while IDDI are PSTN or 'local in-city' numbers.

Carrier-Grade SS7 and C7 Signaling are used in all switching centers for fast and robust call set-up, feature richness and superior accurate billing records. AT&T-West, MCI, AT&T Diversified Group, and VeriSign provide ANI’s domestic USA SS7 networking, while individual UK carriers each provide the international C7 networking. Inter-working between platforms is seamless with ANI’s network.

A fully empowered Network Operations Center (NOC) is located in El Segundo, California USA for engineering, network design and routing instructions, as well as monitoring all vital signs of the numerous network components world-wide. A fully redundant Network Monitoring Center (NMC) is located in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico providing Tier I support and fail-over capabilities.

Alternate Routing and Disaster Recovery programs can be implemented within minutes should either network hardware components or digital interconnection facilities fail. Manned 24x7x365 by network engineers ANI customers and vendors are afforded swift response to network issues and efficient restorations, many times corrected even before end-users have noticed.