Lead Story:

Cable tunes into ENUM

VoIP, multimedia services drive need

The continued rollout of VoIP and multimedia services to consumers and business is driving the cable industry to trial and deploy Electronic Number Mapping (ENUM) to natively peer with other IP-based network providers.
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Product Profile:

Cable-Tec 2008: Tekelec helps service providers overcome IP peer pressure

TekPath Route Director bridges the TDM to VoIP worlds

Leveraging the work it has done with SS7 Signaling Transfer Points (STP) for number portability, Tekelec has created the TekPath Route Director ENUM product to help service providers bridge the TDM to IP services divide.
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Industry Perspective:

NXTComm08: Green asks telcos to play nice with cable

CableLabs boss sees room for cooperation on technical issues

CableLabs' President-CEO Dick Green adopted a carrot-and-stick approach for his early morning keynote to a groggy NXTComm last-day crowd — starting with the stick.
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Commentary:

What are they up to?

CableLabs' boss invites telco, cable to play nice. Why?

During this year's NXTcomm show, CableLabs made two uncharacteristic moves: they not only gave a keynote address but announced that they are now a member of ATIS, largely a telco-centric standards organization.
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Audiocast:

iBasis: wholesale voice is evolving

In this special NXTcomm08 edition of Telecommunications' Audiocast Series, Editor in Chief Sean Buckley talks to Ofer Gneezy, CEO of iBasis about the state of the international wholesale voice business.

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Featured Research:

ENUM: Call Routing in an all IP World

Are we finally reaching the tipping point for mass deployments?

This paper examines industry trends driving ENUM deployments, and how both traditional telco and cable operators can experience real benefits by implementing ENUM in their networks.

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