Telcordia® Routing Administration

The industry recognized source for routing and rating data

TRA Workshops

• Are you a potential user of TRA data or otherwise need to know about the data?
• Are you new to using the LERG, or just need aspects clarified or reviewed?
• Have you just been assigned to a position that involves code administration or reporting your company's numbering assignments and routing information through TRA products?

These and numerous other situations may make attending or arranging TRA Workshops worth considering !!!

Schedule of TRA Workshops and Data Input Training

All sessions below are held at Telcordia facilities in Piscataway, New Jersey.  Also see Company-specific Workshops/Training should you desire such training to be suitcased to your location.  Upcoming sessions are noted below.  Sessions for the next year are posted during the fourth quarter of the current year.

For registration and further information about TRA Workshops and Data Input (BIRRDS) Training see below, call Lori Lopez on 732-699-6647, or email questions to llopez@telcordia.com

TRA Workshops

Workshop registration fee is $599/person (to be prepaid).  Travel, meals, and lodging are not included.  Click here for a copy of the registration form

TRA holds 1 1/2 day workshops to describe and discuss the TRA numbering data in the Telcordia® LERG™ Routing Guide and other TRA data products.  General TRA Workshops are open to anyone wishing to attend.  Due to a wide variety of uses of this data, the focus in these workshops is directed towards what the data is, how it is obtained, and how it is provided, more so than on specific uses. However, participants can raise "use" questions and bring examples that can be reviewed.  These workshops will also describe the industry structure and processes in which TRA operates, provide an overview of basic routing and rating concepts relative to TRA data, and discuss various routing, rating, and numbering directions in which the industry is heading that may ultimately impact the data.  The workshop touches upon the follow topics, with approximately half the time spent on reviewing the LERG itself.  Also see Company-specific Workshops/Training should you desire such training to be suitcased to your location.

• Telcordia® Routing Administration (TRA)
• Industry Structure For Issue Resolution
• Central Office (CO) Code / TBP Assignment Overview
• Routing and Rating Overview
• General Routing Considerations
• Voice Over IP / Next Generation Networks
• Local Number Portability / Telephone Number Pooling
• Exchange Area, Local Calling Area, Serving Wire Centers …
• Telcordia® Business Integrated Routing and Rating Database System (BIRRDS)
• BIRRDS Output (LERG™ Routing Guide, TPM™ Data Source, ....)
• Additional TRA Products: TDS, GDD, LCADS, etc.
• Product Evolution
• TRA Support, Funding, Pricing Principles

Data Input (BIRRDS) Training

Data Input (BIRRDS) Training registration fee is $100/person (to be prepaid).  Travel, meals, and lodging are not included.  Click here for a copy of the registration form.

If you are involved with direct data input into the TRA databases (i.e your company is an AOCN), a separate one day input training session is scheduled the day preceding the workshop.  Input training reviews accessing the Business Integrated Routing and Rating Database (BIRRDS), creating and updating records, system tables, the TRA Report Request System (TRRS), and related processes involved with managing data in the database.  Also see Company-specific Workshops/Training should you desire such training to be suitcased to your location.

Company-specific Workshops/Training

Arrangements can be made to provide the TRA Workshop and/or Data Input Training on a company-specific suitcased basis.  This alternative can be cost beneficial to you if you are considering sending even just a few people to the workshop.  You can save on travel and living expenses and on employee out-of-office time as well.  Company-specific workshops and training also provide flexibility since we can work with you on the location, timeframes, and refine content.  We can focus on different aspects of the material to meet your specific needs, expertise, company-specific case situations, etc., as you may desire.  Please contact Lori Lopez on 732-699-6647, or email questions to llopez@telcordia.com for further information.