iBasis, TNS Join Stealths Voice Peering Fabric

iBasis and Transaction Network Services announced on Wednesday that they are the newest members of Stealth Communications' Voice Peering Fabric (VPF), a distributed Layer 2 Ethernet network fabric that enables the free exchange of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services.

VPF functions as an exchange or electronic meeting place for service providers and enterprises to exchange VoIP traffic in a secure, quality-of-service environment as opposed to the free Internet. Initial products offered to the VPF client base include traditional SS7 database services Caller Name (CNAM) and Local Number Portability (LNP), accessible today via Internet Protocol (IP) transactional protocols including Session Initiation Protocol (News - Alert) (SIP). Future services will include SMS800 (toll-free) call routing database services using similar IP transactional methods.

“VPF provides us with a new channel to deliver our enhanced VoIP services,” stated Bill Thornton, director of business development, Telecommunications Services Division for TNS. “In addition to TNS services such as CNAM and LNP, we now have an augmented suite of VoIP products as a result of our InfiniRoute acquisition. We are eager to market our entire range of services to the growing VoIP marketplace.”

In joining the VPF, iBasis said it is able to offer other VPF members high quality call termination to more than 100 countries through a single interconnection. In addition, iBasis will be able to take advantage of the VPF ENUM Registry, which enables the termination and exchange of traffic among different consumer VoIP service providers and enterprise networks by mapping traditional E164 phone numbers to IP address end points.

“The consumer VoIP market is growing rapidly, and emerging providers all over the world need access to high quality termination to fixed-line PSTN and mobile phones,” said Ofer Gneezy, president and CEO of iBasis. “Joining Stealth's VPF puts us in a good position to provide that service seamlessly and to begin to leverage a fast-growing ENUM capability that only becomes more valuable as the consumer VoIP market expands.”

Earlier this week, Sansay announced that its VoIP session control solutions now include the ability to interface to Stealth Communications’ VPF ENUM Registry.

The announcements come on the eve of Stealth Communications’ Voice Peering Forum Spring 2006, which kicks off tomorrow, March 30-31 2006 in Miami .

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