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Spider announces the launch of the Spider Registry
May 16, 2006
WILMINGTON, Del. -- SPIDER Registry, Inc., a non-stock, not-for-profit company committed to facilitating global interconnection of VoIP services, announces today the launch of the SPIDER Registry, the first and only neutral, secure, industry-managed registry of service provider controlled interconnect addressing information. SPIDER Registry's name is an acronym for Service Provider ID E.164 Record Registry, which signifies the linkage of a VoIP Service Provider ID (SPID) with the International Telecommunications Union's E.164 standard for international telephone numbers.
SPIDER will provide communications service providers and VoIP communities with the core set of shared database tools necessary to facilitate the easy uploading, management and distribution of interconnect address information with trusted partners. The shared addressing services provided by SPIDER will facilitate worldwide VoIP peering between communications service providers and VoIP communities. The SPIDER database services are provided exclusively through Registrars that are allowed to create and administer SPIDER accounts for their service provider customers. Service providers can choose from a number of competitive Registrars to manage their interconnect addressing relationships through SPIDER. SPIDER Registrars utilize an openly published SOAP/XML Application Programming Interface (API) to provide SPIDER registration services. In addition, Registrars are responsible for account validation, customer support and billing for the use of SPIDER Registry data.
Users of SPIDER can create accounts, provision numbers into those accounts and specify interconnect / routing address records for their partners to download into their ENUM/SIP addressing servers for call routing. SPIDER provides a real-time data distribution service that pushes interconnect addressing data to downstream addressing servers operated by individual service providers, VoIP communities and interconnect intermediaries. Service providers query their own addressing servers (or a hosted addressing service) on a call-by-call basis to discover trusted interconnect routing options. Direct end-to-end routing of VoIP calls removes potential quality impairments from unnecessary VoIP/TDM conversions, and direct routing also usually reduces the cost of termination.
SPIDER was created to address the need to interconnect the large number of VoIP 'islands' or communities emerging around the world," says Paul Doherty, General Manager, SPIDER Registry, Inc. "SPIDER is the only industry managed repository of the addressing information needed to enable the efficient exchange of addressing information between the various ‘islands' of VoIP services. Members can take advantage of SPIDER Registry's growing community of service providers and Registrars to expand their number of VoIP accessible endpoints, while retaining their ability to choose their own ENUM/SIP addressing servers, select their own partners and commercial relationships, and choose when to use VoIP routing services to reach service providers that are outside their direct community."
Spider Registry Inc.
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