ATIS Launches a Unified Call Routing Solution

July 10, 2008, Washington - ATIS today outlined its plan to achieve a standardized approach in support of the information, entertainment and communication industry’s need for an interoperable inter-carrier VoIP call routing (IVCR) solution.

At a workshop held in June, representatives from ATIS member companies along with other industry organizations reached consensus in determining that the industry will benefit from a unified approach to IVCR implementation. Participants in the workshop, which included ATIS member companies and representatives from the CC1 ENUM LLC, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the GSM Association (GSMA), and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), agreed that network interconnection architectures could be implemented to achieve a unified call routing solution.

“ATIS members and industry representatives are committed to introducing efficiencies of call routing without compromising business opportunities. The development of an interoperable IVCR solution solves a critical industry-wide problem,” stated Susan Miller, President and CEO of ATIS.

In order to assess whether a common call routing solution is suitable, ATIS established the Inter-carrier Call Routing Working Group (IVCR-WG), which will examine the Centralized Upper Tier Registry (CUTR) model that was developed as a result of the ATIS-commissioned IVCR Focus Group. The IVCR-WG will analyze the CUTR for domestic and global scalability, flexibility to adapt to new service requirements, and its ability to meet performance expectations, such as support for high-volume bilaterals and reasonable query response times. Discussion and work within the IVCR-WG will begin immediately with results of the analysis anticipated to be available in the Third Quarter of 2008.

About ATIS
ATIS is a technical planning and standards development organization that is committed to providing leadership for, and the rapid development and promotion of, worldwide technical and operations standards for information, entertainment and communications technologies using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Participants from more than 300 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 22 industry committees and Incubator Solutions Program. www.atis.org

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