[enum-wg] ENUM for SMS?

Dear Richard,

Thank you for your information!
I think US case shows one of very possible ENUM deployment scenario.
I hope such precedent case will make Japanese situation move forward :-)

Regards,

-- 
Yoshiro YONEYA <yone at jprs.co.jp>

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:19:03 -0400 "Richard Shockey" <richard at shockey.us> wrote:

> Yes .. but I don't have any pointers these are all private services.
> 
> ENUM is now being used extensively in North America for both SMS and more
> specifically for MMS routing. This service is offered by at least three
> companies.  NeuStar, Telcordia and TNS (Transaction Network Solutions) of
> Reston VA which recently acquired the telecom signaling assets of Verisign. 
> 
> Depending on the requirements of the customer either a URI for a MMSC or
> SMSC is returned or a SPID that is used to create a one to one peering
> arrangements (federation). In any event the business case is SS7/TCAP
> avoidance. The most popular application for ENUM in North America is Local
> Number Portability queries. The cost savings to carriers that do not have
> their own SS7 networks are considerable.
> 
> Actually all the US mobile operators are routing MMS via ENUM queries
> including ATT and VZ there is a similar service available to Canadian
> Operators.
> 
> The query can be to a database in the cloud over a secure connection or a
> full subscription to the routing databases can be delivered in-network to a
> caching ENUM server.
> 
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: enum-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf
> >  Of Yoshiro YONEYA
> >  Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:15 AM
> >  To: enum-wg at ripe.net
> >  Subject: [enum-wg] ENUM for SMS?
> >  
> >  Dear ENUM WG members,
> >  
> >  In RFC 4355, enumservice for SMS is defined.  Is there any cases that
> >  use ENUM for SMS routing in commercial service?  If you know any
> >  information,
> >  please let me know or give me pointer(s) to the information.
> >  
> >  Regards,
> >  
> >  --
> >  Yoshiro YONEYA <yone at jprs.co.jp>
> 
> 
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