Stealth Communications Announces Official Launch of VPF ENUM Registry
Stealth Communications, Inc., which owns and operates the Voice Peering Fabric, the World's first and only VoIP minutes exchange to provide complete transparency between buyers and sellers of VoIP routes, today announces the official launch of the VPF ENUM Registry.
(PRWEB) April 28, 2004
Stealth Communications, Inc., which owns and operates the Voice Peering Fabric, the World's first and only VoIP minutes exchange to provide complete transparency between buyers and sellers of VoIP routes, today announces the official launch of the VPF ENUM Registry.
"ENUM changes everything" said Shrihari Pandit, CEO and Founder of Stealth, and the leading architect behind the breakthrough technology underpinning the VPF.
"ENUM is a network protocol that takes a telephone number and resolves it to a URL, like the way a traditional Domain Name Server (DNS) takes a URL (like www. google. com) and converts it into a numeric IP address. With ENUM, the telephone number is sent to the DNS server, which then replies back with a list of URL? s. This opens up a whole new world of applications and services driven solely by a phone number,? says Pandit.
Imagine yourself storing a collection of fax, voice, mobile, and e-mail addresses in a single ENUM address. The person who initiates the call may access your preferred contact information and may choose the method of communications.
The possibilities are endless and wide ranging: "it [ENUM] has the potential to drastically reduce the operating expenses of VoIP carriers because it allows them to terminate directly on each others network at zero cost,? added Pandit.
For example, telephone calls made between two organizations would transit through the PSTN and incur termination charges. Using the VPF ENUM Registry, both organizations are able to terminate calls directly to one another, with no termination costs. Access to the VPF ENUM Registry is not limited to service providers. Educational institutions, municipal governments and businesses all can use the service to cut costs, while greatly enhancing the capabilities of their voice networks.
Current participants to the service include: Acropolis Telecom, Addaline. Com, Free World Dialup, MIT, Net2phone, Packet8, and Yale University.
Stealth's VPF ENUM Registry presently holds over 1 million phone numbers. While this represents only a small number of the total phone numbers in the US, Pandit is quick to point out that "ENUM represents truly disruptive technology, in that it has the potential to obsolete the public phone network." Pandit envisions a day when Stealth's VPF ENUM Registry will house most, if not all of the phone numbers on the planet. And why not, it's free.
