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- Title
Carriers and Users Prepare to Midwife ENUM.
- Authors
Goth, Greg
- Abstract
This article provides information on ENUM, the mapping of globally recognized telephone numbers to the Domain Name System. Promoted as a way to enable end-to-end voice-over-IP (VoIP) connectivity and various other Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled applications, ENUM was long expected to be controlled by end users. Several companies have announced the availability of ENUM registries, into which member service providers can place their customers' IP-based numbers. Among them are New York City-based Stealth Communications, which has established an ENUM registry as part of its Voice Peering Fabric, a distributed layer-2 Ethernet exchange designed for VoIP traffic. The service allows VoIP-enabled entities to directly connect to each other. Participants in the registry, announced in April 2004, include Acropolis Telecom, Addaline.com, Free World Dialup, MIT, Net2phone, Packet8, and Yale University. In May 2004, Verisign announced its direct VoIP connection service, MSO-IP Connect, which features a centralized call-routing and discovery database based on ENUM, and the PacketCable Session Initiation Protocol-based Call Management Server Signaling Protocol.
- Subjects
INTERNET telephony; TELEPHONE systems; INTERNET domain names; ETHERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION systems; COMMUNICATIONS industries; INTERNET industry; VERISIGN Inc.; STEALTH Communications Services LLC
- Publication
IEEE Internet Computing, 2004, Vol 8, Issue 5, p7
- ISSN
1089-7801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1109/MIC.2004.49