Carrier Voice

Grande Communications has become a leading provider of domestic and international termination services by utilizing its class 5 and soft-switch telecommunications infrastructure to provide quality carrier voice services for other telecommunications companies. When you choose Grande Communications as your network service provider, you can rely on us for delivering:

  • 24x7 NOCC Support
  • Quick Implementation
  • Flexible Pricing Options
  • Managed Jurisdictional Routing
  • Optimal Performance
  • TMD and SIP Interconnection
  • Diverse SS7 Routing

National Directory Assistance

Grande Communications provides a comprehensive National Directory Assistance service offering local and long-distance directory assistance for listings in the United States.

Our accurate database provides your customers with information quickly and professionally with:

  • Multiple Call Centers
  • High-Speed Database Search Capabilities
  • National Database Updates 5 days/week
  • Brand Message Services
  • Call Completion
  • Spanish-Speaking Representatives and Prompts Available
  • Two Listings Per Call Available

Wholesale CLEC

Grande Communications will provide your company with enhanced local telephony services that enable service providers to compete against the local telephone providers. Our core services consist of:

  • Local Dial Tone, Long Distance
  • 911 Database Updates
  • Telephone Number Assignment
  • Local Number Portability
  • Local Telephone Features
  • Directory Listing Services
  • National Directory Assistance

Broadband Services

Grande Communications delivers scalable, flexible and reliable bandwidth and colocation solutions to the marketplace. With its metro and long haul fiber network, Grande provides access to key routes and locations. Grande offers inter-city long haul services in the United States and Mexico through our fiber network and partner networks. In addition, Grande has extensive Metropolitan Area Networks interconnected with this long haul network in selected cities.

Grande Communications offers secure, reliable bandwidth services to our wholesale customers over a robust optical network comprised of state-of-the-art SONET and ROADM technology providing bi-directional, dependable and continuous service to meet your need for reliable broadband service. Our service offering includes:

  • Capacity from DS-1 to 10G Wavelength
  • Ethernet from up to 1G
  • Efficient Service Implementation
  • Next Generation 40 Channel ROADM Platform
  • SONET and Ring Protected Architecture
  • Connectivity to Mexico Border Crossings

Metro Access Network and Collocation

Grande Communications provides delivery of high-capacity SONET, Wavelength and Ethernet-based service, dark fiber and carrier-grade collocation services as well as custom fiber network design and build services. A facilities-based company, Grande builds, owns and operates metropolitan fiber-optic networks in several Texas metro areas. Grande's diverse network provides customers with connections to carrier hotels, LEC Central Offices, commercial buildings and other major data centers.

Grande offers 5 categories of Metro Fiber services:

  • Dark Fiber Indefeasible Right to Use (IRU)
  • Dark Fiber Lease
  • Network Construction/Lateral Builds
  • Capacity from DS-1 to 10G Wavelength
  • Point-to-Point or Multi-point Ethernet from 3Mb to 1G
  • Carrier Grade Collocation Facilities

VOIP Terminations

Grande can provide its wholesale customers with VoIP terminations. This enables customers to terminate VoIP originated traffic over Grande’s network in a specified NPANXX footprint. Interconnection Facilities must be provisioned between the customer and Grande’s serving switch. Grande can provision, monitor and troubleshoot these Interconnection Facilities. The Interconnection Facilities may be TDM or IP. The customer also has the option of providing its own Interconnection Facilities. Additionally, Grande offers concentration of traffic from all of its serving switch sites to a single point of interconnection.

Originating Local Access

Grande offers inbound local calling access to ISPs, calling card platforms and VoIP service providers. Customers may interconnect at any Grande Communications' serving switch or designated POP via TDM or SIP. Grande can aggregate multiple rate centers over a single customer trunk group for flexibility and economies of scale.

Features include:

  • Comprehensive Local Coverage
  • Multiple Rate Centers Aggregation
  • TDM or SIP Interconnection
  • Class 5 Switching Network
  • DID Provisioning
  • Over 500 Rate Centers
  • Local Number Portability

Wholesale Dial-Up

Grande Communications' wholesale dial-up services offer companies complete and turnkey dial-up service for resale to consumers.

Features include:

  • RADIUS Server Hosting
  • Direct Internet Backbone Access
  • Filtered Internet Access Services
  • Customer-maintained User Database
  • Over 500 Rate Centers