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ACIF Sets Up Interconnect Working Group |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Friday, 07 July 2006 |
Australian Communications Industry Forum has established an Interconnection
Subgroup to concentrate industry coordination.
According to the ACIF, the Forums it held in 2004 and 2005
identified a number of concerns relating
to VoIP inter-provider connectivity, such as treatment or support for Quality
of Service (QoS) and consistency in prioritising IP packets carrying telephony
services.
Currently the majority of VoIP networks and services are not
directly interconnected, and exchange calls through third-party conventional
PSTN carriers using conventional TDM interfaces.
As VoIP networks, subscriber numbers and the volume of direct
inter-provider VoIP calls rise, the incidence of VoIP calls needing to traverse
multiple provider networks will inevitably grow, explains Paul Brooks, Chair of
the VoIP Interconnect Subgroup.
The VoIP Interconnection subgroup draws together
representatives of service providers, carriers, equipment vendors, government
and potential subscribers to address these concerns.
In March, an ACIF discussion paper addressed a range of
possible network architectures, technical issues, service issues and community
concerns, while canvassing industry and community views. Those views have now
been collated and are available on the Forum website, here.
According to an update in ACIF's recent newsletter the Interconnect
Subgroup has pulled together key themes from the submissions to use as a guide
to future work.
Some of these key themes included:
A need for comprehensive labelling and certification of
services, and independent information built for the subscriber to assist in
selecting a provider or service;
A clear message not to ‘re-invent the wheel' and develop an
Australia-specific standard; and
Concern over the role of Caller Line Identification (CLI)
and subscriber identification in the new architecture - especially as it
relates to location and emergency services.
The subgroup hopes to work through the issues with the aim
of identifying, evaluating and recommending solutions before inter-provider
calls becomes a significant issue and before the issue.
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