Making VoIP Federation-Based Routing Quick, Simple and Easy

LONDON, UK, Nov. 3, 2008 — XConnect, the world’s largest provider of voice-over-IP (VoIP) federation peering services, today announced that the DIGITALK SIP Application Server has been certified XConnect-Ready™ having completed interoperability testing based on SIP signaling and ENUM queries with XConnect Federations.

XConnect’s certification ensures DIGITALK customers, such as Telfort, BT, and Cable & Wireless, will be able to rapidly connect to XConnect Peering Federations to reduce the costs of terminating VoIP calls to millions of telephone numbers in the XConnect registry, protect their networks from spam-over-Internet-telephony (SPIT) attacks, and reliably deliver new IP communications services across disparate and often separate mobile, wireline and IP based telephony networks. 

“We are pleased to welcome DIGITALK to our XConnect Ready program” said Eli Katz, XConnect CEO. “We look forward to working with them to deliver the benefits of ENUM and VoIP Peering to service providers, enabling them to lower termination costs, streamline operations and deliver increasingly higher levels IP Communications features on a cross network basis to their clients.”

"The voice industry is moving towards Peering Federations that integrate peering and ENUM registry services to increase the efficiency of interconnection and routing, leverage new approaches to LNP, and deliver enhanced IP Communications services on more calls to their customers," said Justin Norris, Managing Director of DIGITALK.  "The XConnect Ready certification is another way we are ensuring that DIGITALK solutions enable these capabilities for the future and add value for our customers."

XConnect enables feature-rich multi-media communication, reduces capex and opex and enhances call quality for service providers via its multi-lateral XConnect Alliance, DirectRoute and Private Federations services. XConnect Federations are carrier-neutral peering environments that deliver complete signaling interoperability, intelligent ENUM Registry services, and VoIP security for the interconnection of XConnect Members, which include voice over broadband providers, MSOs, and PTTs. The XConnect Ready Partner Program is an ecosystem of vendors and solution providers dedicated to facilitate service provider peering.