Acme Packet, NetNumber, NexTone, Nominum first four members

In response to the challenge of IP service interconnection for converged services, Telcordia Technologies (www.telcordia.com) has announced the launch of the Telcordia Service Interconnection Community. This member-based initiative will help accelerate the adoption of VoIP and IMS-based services via IP interconnection, and reduce the associated integration costs by helping to ensure that network elements and operations support systems (OSSs) interoperate with the Telcordia® Service Interconnection Registry.

Acme Packet, NetNumber, NexTone and Nominum are the first community members, all having successfully completed Telcordia's interoperability tests, a requirement for the community membership.

"Interoperability among service elements is a major barrier for service providers when deploying IP-enabled services such as VoIP," said Richard Jacowleff, President, Interconnection Solutions, Telcordia. "Telcordia created the Service Interconnection Community to address that challenge, and give service providers a convenient, cost-effective resource for verifying IP service interconnection and product interoperability, so that service providers have a proven path to rapidly deploy converged services that can interconnect easily and reliably over IP."

Membership in the Telcordia Service Interconnection Community, which requires passing defined interoperability test cases, supports all stages of an IP service's life cycle, from infrastructure building to operations. The result is a community of suppliers whose network elements and OSSs interoperate with the Telcordia Service Interconnection Registry.

For service providers, this interoperability reduces the cost, risk and time-to-market for deploying IP service interconnection for converged services, enabling them to deliver the promise of converged services that were not previously possible due to Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interconnection. For vendors, membership provides validation that their products can be rapidly deployed and integrated with the Telcordia Service Interconnection Registry to enable all IP interconnection.

Currently, most phone calls are routed through the PSTN. VoIP and IMS-enabled communications that originate on an IP network have to be routed via the PSTN for call completion. As such, service providers will not achieve the benefits of end-to-end IP services. The Telcordia Service Interconnection Registry is a secure, centrally-managed, and carrier-grade registry that enables inter-carrier routing and rating for both TDM- and IP-enabled services. IP Service Interconnection allows carriers to interconnect via IP to deliver VoIP, IMS, and other converged services, while enabling carriers to migrate seamlessly from PSTN to IP.

This award-winning proven solution helps service providers gain a competitive edge by reducing their interconnection costs, optimizing their business processes, improving operational margins, while enabling end to end services delivery via IP.

More information about the Telcordia Service Interconnection Community can be found at http://www.telcordia.com/services/interconnection/community.html. Information about Telcordia Service Interconnection solutions can be found at http://www.telcordia.com/services/interconnection/index.html. General information about Telcordia can be found at http://www.telcordia.com.

Source: Telcordia