Routing Directory Server accelerates VoIP services.
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Optimized for routing demands of converging telecommunication networks, ENUM-based Nominum Navitas enables connection of advanced IP-based communication services between separate networks. It provides necessary information to handle local number portability data and resolve SIP to URI translation. Server provides sub-ms query response latency, scalability, real-time updates, provisioning interfaces, and optimizations for varied deployments.
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Nominum Launches Industry's First Complete IP-Application Routing Directory Server for Converged Communications Networks
Solution Bolsters Performance and Functionality for IP-Based Service Interconnects
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 14 / / -- Nominum, the leading provider of network naming and addressing solutions, today announced the launch of the industry's first complete solution designed and optimized for the routing demands of converging telecommunications networks. Nominum Navitas is an ENUM-based IP-Application Routing Directory server that enables the connection of advanced IP-based communications services between separate networks. This solution fills an essential role in emerging VoIP peering architectures and IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS), providing greater visibility into the routing infrastructure and accelerating the delivery of high quality, low cost VoIP and advanced services.
"Service providers are adopting ENUM -- both as a protocol and set of functionality -- and solutions such as application-level routing directories to interconnect VoIP and other communication services directly and efficiently over IP networks," said Dan Golding, senior analyst, Burton Group. "The adoption of such solutions is closing the gap between traditional telephony and all-IP networks to fully achieve the economic and functional benefits of IP-based services."
The demand for connecting advanced services over IP-based networks is increasing as providers strive to offer new services such as VoIP, Push-to-Talk, gaming and video conferencing. The costs and technical limitations associated with routing these new services through the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) threaten to reduce their overall value for service providers. This threat is driving the need for all-IP converged network architectures enabled to deliver high quality, low cost advanced services as well as increase the speed and flexibility of deployments. To fully achieve their promises, these new IP-based architectures require routing directories that guarantee leveragable architectures and optimize the interconnections between converged networks.
"Communications providers can't afford to be stranded on next generation network islands. As they start to deploy IP-based converged networks, providers will demand service routing directory solutions that meet their demanding requirements," said Albert Gouyet, vice president of marketing, Nominum, Inc. "Nominum Navitas provides the provisioning, access, and management interfaces to integrate within a provider environment and offer the most effective solution for managing converging network interconnections at an ever expanding scale."
Nominum Navitas is an IP-Application routing directory server that delivers greater visibility into the IP address mapping required for converging network interconnections. It provides a solution for efficiently responding to, organizing, and managing IP service routing information. Nominum Navitas sits at a critical point in new network topologies and provides the necessary information to handle local number portability data, resolve SIP to URI translation, and route sessions between IP networks. Nominum Navitas is the first to market with a complete solution that includes leading performance such as sub-millisecond query response latency, massive scalability, real-time updates, provisioning interfaces, optimizations for varied deployments (private, carrier, and public), support for multiple in-network architectures (centralized and decentralized), and carrier-grade availability that are required for the success of IP-based services.
Authoritative Routing Data -- The Key to Interoperability
In order to test the ability of its new product to provision and access authoritative routing data from external sources, Nominum has completed interoperability testing of Nominum Navitas with NeuStar's SIP-IX ENUM registry service. Using an open SOAP/XML schema developed by NeuStar, in collaboration with partners like Nomimum, Navitas was provisioned with ENUM records from SIP-IX. SIP-IX is a suite of services and global infrastructure designed to enable direct network-to-network peering between trading partners for voice, video and content services using SIP-based technologies such as IP multimedia (IMS) and VoIP. NeuStar Inc. is a provider of essential clearinghouse services to the communication industry. The testing confirmed that Nominum Navitas delivers the functionality and performance required for the exchange of SIP traffic for advanced services.
Leveraging Local Number Portability
In addition, Nominum will collaborate with Evolving Systems, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions and services to the wireless, wireline and IP carrier market, to test Nominum Navitas. The collaboration will test Local Number Portability data integration with Nominum Navitas. The relationship provides Nominum with the opportunity to test its new ENUM-based IP-Application Routing Directory solution with Evolving Systems' LsmsXpress(TM) and OrderPath(R) products in an effort to quantify performance and interoperability benchmarks for Nominum Navitas.
About Nominum
Nominum's network naming and addressing solutions power the world's largest always-on networks. Nominum is a global provider of ENUM-based IP-Application Routing Directory, DNS, and DHCP solutions that enable communication providers to deliver high quality always-on broadband internet and innovative services to their customers, including VoIP, push to talk, fixed-mobile convergence, IPTV, and triple-play. For further information visit www.nominum.com.
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CONTACT: Lisa Abbott of Nominum, +1-650-381-6140, or lisa.abbott@nominum.com
