UK OFCOM Consultation - ENUM potential? [ was Re: Enterprise VoIP Peering Point? ]

[Peter Gradwell <peter@gradwell.com>]

At 15:57 11/08/2004, Richard Shockey wrote:
> > Admittedly, I don't understand how your product works, so 
> > I'm interested in hearing more of a complete description, 
> > even if this can be only be applied to the world of the 
> > large-dollar-budget incumbents.  Anything to encourage 
> > the use of ENUM is a good thing in my book, even if it's 
> > a closed environment...
>
> well that sounds like a sales call  <g> the key is getting 
> vendors to make a strategic decision on what is the 
> preferred next generation query response mechanism for TN 
> to URI resolution and beginning to implement it. at the 
> 50K foot level remember what this is about .. killing off 
> SS7. BTW demand ENUM in your IP PBX as well.
>
> The dirty little secret of VoIP is that swapping out the 
> underlying transport of a voice call from TDM to IP does 
> nothing unless you can attack the real underlying evil in 
> the PSTN which is SS7.

Speaking of dirty secrets, OFCOM has published a 
consultation on how to make number portability work 
properly, and almost concluded they should do nothing. They 
think a centralized database for the UK would be too expensive (GBP200M).

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/current/uk_numb_port

cheers
peter

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