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NetNumber provides secure, reliable, ENUM-compliant directory services to the Internet-Telephony industry. NetNumber's ENUM program is the outgrowth of a three-year intellectual property, technology development and standards body effort launched by the team in 1997.

Industry leading results from the NetNumber team include:

• First Internet-Telephony directory demonstration: September 1998: VMA global multi-vendor voice messaging services demonstration held in Athens.
• First production release of a global Internet-Telephony directory service: May 2000.
• First production ENUM directory service: November 2000.

ENUM services (IETF RFC 2916) are a core piece of Internet infrastructure that convert telephone numbers into the Internet address information required to support all forms of IP-enabled communications services including real-time voice, voicemail, fax, remote-printing, unified-messaging, etc.

 

NetNumber in the News

NetNumber And Transaction Network Services Team For Trial Of IP Access To Legacy Network Data Elements

Global ENUM technology provides link between Internet and PSTN networks

NetNumber cited in 2002 Tech Trends Annual Report - "Technology Developments: One Number, Many Devices"

Today, ENUM standards, set by the IETF and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), are largely complete. VeriSign, a digital trust services company, and NetNumber, a provider of secure and reliable directory services, are already testing ENUM. The IETF and the ITU are expected to finalize ENUM in the latter half of 2002, with imple-mentation in 2003.

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 "Complete ENUM Solutions... Today"

NetNumber(TM) provides a complete set of ENUM solutions for Service Providers on a global basis. ENUM services (RFC 2916) are a core piece of Internet infrastructure that enable communications applications to efficiently "locate" or "discover" IP-enabled communications services associated with a given telephone number. NetNumber's world-class DNS/ENUM infrastructure can be utilized as a fully outsourced service or deployed and supported locally by a Service Provider through a software-licensing model.

Public ENUM:

Baseline ENUM functionality defined for use in a public domain being currently evaluated by the ITU. Service Providers and/or government agencies can license NetNumber's ENUM systems to deliver Tier-1 and Tier-2 ENUM services under any public implementation of the ENUM technology standard.

Global ENUM(TM):

Complete set of NextGen Intelligent Network (NextGen-IN(TM)) location services developed by NetNumber for use exclusively by Service Providers. Global ENUM incorporates baseline ENUM functionality plus several standards compliant extensions including security, interconnect filters, complex DNS queries, and DNS access to legacy IN data elements such as LNP, LIDB, CNAM, 8XX, etc.

NetNumber is working with a large and constantly expanding pool of communications Service Providers and technology vendors to advance a NextGen Intelligent Network architecture that facilitates the integration of IP protocols into existing SS7/CCS/TDM network infrastructures. NetNumber has built a leadership position through delivering a set of location service solutions that meet the flexibility and reliability requirements of Service Providers on a global basis.

Carrier-class reliability, scalability and performance underlie every aspect of NetNumber's ENUM solutions. In support of this vision, NetNumber's ENUM services are hosted and operated by Verisign Global Registry Services (Verisign GRS) - the world leader in DNS registry operations.

For more information on NetNumber's ENUM services and NextGen IN location service functionality, please see the PDF document "GLOBAL ENUM(TM) and the NextGen Intelligent Network Architecture Overview".

 

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NetNumber's ENUM directory allows registered users of the SIP Center to associate a standard telephone number with a SIP resource. You can send SIP messages using the tel url format supported in SIP (e.g. tel:+441633765600). These messages will then be proxied by the SIP Center Network Server to the appropriate SIP resource.

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Provisioning ENUM Services

INTRODUCTION

The telecommunications industry is moving at remarkable speed to embrace the new world of Internet Protocol (IP) technology. Underlying economics and the growing demand for new services dictate that data networks like the Internet, corporate intranets, and managed extranets will be the converged telecommunications networks of the future. These high-speed data networks built upon vast fiber optic pipes are accelerating the migration toward an IP based packet infrastructure for all forms of communication. IDC a leading industry research firm forecast that IP based voice communications revenue will grow from $300 million at the end of 2000 to more than $15 billion in 2004 As the convergence of telephone networks and the Internet has advanced, a well-defined addressing challenge has emerged. Telephone services like real-time voice, voicemail and fax are based on using standard telephone numbers for addressing. Unfortunately, Internet based communications services like SIP, H323, SMTP, IPP, etc. use a completely different addressing format. In order for the convergence of telephone services and the Internet to continue, a mechanism needs to exist to translate standard telephone numbers into Internet addresses.

GLOBAL ENUM(TM) and the NextGen Intelligent Network Architecture Overview