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Voice Peering Event Attracts Some 200 Telecom Execs
TMCnet Wireless and Technology Columnist
NEW YORK – Approximately 200 telecommunications executives came out Wednesday to attend the Voice Peering Forum to learn more about peering interconnection networks that help service providers or enterprises to bypass entirely the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
Peering interconnections networks like the Voice Peering Fabric “is a radical departure from voice-over-the-Net,” explained Srihari Pandit, president and CEO of Stealth Communications, which is hosting the well-attended event here in the Financial District.
Since 2003, Stealth has operated the Voice Peering Fabric – an Ethernet-based exchange where call origination and termination services are bought and sold – and, since April 2004, has operated IP-based ENUM registry service to connect carriers that participate in the exchange. Currently, the Fabric is estimated to carry 17 billion minutes per year for participating service providers without the need to provision expensive lines.
“Voice peering is at the same stage as email and the Internet was back in 1992 or 1994,” said Rich Tehrani, President of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), in his morning keynote speech. And as a technology, peering is only set to grow, the VoIP evangelist added. Tehrani has previously declared 2006 as the Year of VoIP Peering, an assertion that he mused might be “a stretch out on a limb.”
But, citing Metcalfe’s Law (which states the value of a network equals approximately the square of the number of users of the system), Tehrani predicted that peering exchanges will provide additional value as more and more companies participate. As such, he also projected the future of VoIP peering could hold stereo technologies or even video services
TMC, the parent company of TMCnet, is a sponsor of today’s event.
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Robert Liu is Executive Editor at TMCnet. Previously, he was Executive Editor at Jupitermedia and has also written for CNN, A&E, Dow Jones and Bloomberg. For more articles, please visit Robert Liu's columnist page.
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