Interoperability

Industry Alliance Program

Industry Alliance Program – NeuStar’s Industry Alliance Program (IAP) is designed to foster working relationships with companies offering products and services that are complementary to NeuStar’s IP Exchange Services. Through the IAP, NeuStar seeks to promote vendor interoperability and to reduce barriers to the adoption of new, open-standards based technology. The Industry Alliance Program includes support for providers of Infrastructure, such as internet exchange services, and Technology, such as networking equipment and software for provisioning, billing and customer support.

Infrastructure – NeuStar works with leading Internet Exchange Providers in the Americas, Europe and Asia to ensure that SIP-IX, NeuStar’s global SIP interworking service, is available to our customers world-wide. The Internet Exchange facilities operated by our partners will be used to host NeuStar’s SIP-IX infrastructure, and to enable major telecommunications carriers, internet service providers, portals and large enterprises to exchange traffic in an efficient, secure manner.

Infrastructure Providers

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AMS-IX– AMS-IX is a neutral and independent not-for-profit Internet exchange providing services since the early 1990's. With over 200 connected parties coming from all around the world, AMS-IX offers the highest volume of peering parties anywhere at a single Exchange. The AMS-IX platform will continuously provides high quality non-blocking professional peering services. AMS-IX offers traditional peering services for all types of IP traffic whether data or VoIP. Moreover, AMS-IX hosts the first mobile peering points worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data exchange (MDX), as well as solutions for broadcasting traffic with the Multicast peering service.

By peering at the AMS-IX, companies are also in an excellent position to buy IP transit or other transport services from the many carriers (30+) present at locations throughout Amsterdam. AMS-IX interconnects small and large “traditional” Internet Service Providers, international carriers, mobile operators, content providers, VoIP providers, application providers, web hosters and other related businesses - all unified in one Association: AMS-IX. Learn more at: www.ams-ix.net

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Equinix – Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies and network services providers. Through its network-rich Internet Business Exchange™ (IBX®) centers located in 11 strategic markets across the United States and Asia-Pacific, Equinix offers direct access to more than 200 network providers, including all of the top global Tier 1 networks. Learn more at www.equinix.com.

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Hong Kong Internet eXchange – HKIX is a cooperative project initiated, coordinated and operated by the Information Technology Services Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1995. With over 80 participants and two sites connected by high speed links, HKIX is the major neutral and not-for-profit Internet exchange providing high quality and reliable peering services in Hong Kong. Learn more at www.hkix.net .

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TELEHOUSE America – TELEHOUSE, part of the KDDI group of companies, is a stable and trusted pioneer of carrier-neutral data center space and collocation services. The NYIIX and LAIIX peering exchanges were created and are operated by TELEHOUSE. Since 1989, the company has provided its customers with secure, power-protected environments to house and operate their mission critical primary or back-up data processing and network resources. With facilities in New York and Los Angeles, TELEHOUSE has a wide array of connectivity options to the U.S., Europe and Asia. Learn more at www.telehouse.com.

Technology – NeuStar works with hardware and software vendors to ensure that NeuStar services are interoperable with industry-leading products and services. Through the Industry Alliance Program, technology providers can certify their ability to interact with NeuStar services through standardized, provisioning interfaces.

Technology Providers

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Acme Packet – Acme Packet, the leader in session border control solutions, enables service providers to deliver trusted, first class interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—across IP network borders. The Net-Net family has been selected by over 240 service providers, including 21 of the top 25 wireline and wireless providers in the world, to satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks. These deployments support multiple applications—from VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential services; multiple protocols—SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS and H.248; and multiple border points—interconnect, access network and data center. For more information, visit www.acmepacket.com.

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CEON– Ceon is the leading provider of proven product management and fulfillment software for dynamic and complex bundled product offerings. Ceon’s solutions speed-up and simplify new product introduction and product change management for communications service providers, and enable them to scale service offerings profitably and efficiently.

Ceon’s breakthrough Product Control Center (PCC) solution is the communication industry’s first purpose-built system focused on enabling service providers’ product and marketing personnel to construct and manage a catalog of complex product offerings. PCC manages the entire lifecycle of offerings, including managing the implications of changes in constituent components. Ceon’s Intelligent Order Manager (IOM) and Intelligent Activation Server (IAS) software orchestrate order handling activities, maintain the subscriber service image, and interface with network resources to provision services.

The company’s customers include leading communications service providers in North America and Europe. Ceon’s software has provisioned millions of subscribers for HSD, VoIP, IP-Centrex, IP-TV and on-demand interactive services. Learn more at www.ceon.com.

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Incognito– Incognito Software is a global provider of automated IP address management, domain management, DNS systems, and multimedia provisioning systems. Broadband service providers and large enterprises worldwide use our products to quickly and cost-effectively deploy data, voice, and video networks. Incognito solutions enable the roll-out of next-generation IP-based communications, such as VoIP, IPTV, and wireless multimedia services. Incognito is recognized for its top-rated carrier-grade software, superior customer support, and partnerships with prominent hardware and software vendors. Incognito has grown its global customer base through leadership in software performance including scalability, "5-nines" reliability, ease of administration, user-based service selection, and advanced security. Learn more at www.incognito.com.

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JacobsRimell– JacobsRimell (JR) is a leading provider of service management and Customer-centric service fulfillment solutions for broadband operators enabling them to support the continuous creation and delivery of residential and business products independently from underlying technologies. JR’s solution (APS™) is based on a unique, patented subscriber centric data model and allows operators to develop and manage multiple products and services simultaneously, (Voice, Video, Data and more) significantly increasing operational efficiencies. Operators with JR’s solution can increase adoption rates by being able to create personalized and targeted offerings that can be subscribed to and turned on by customers themselves. With over 11 million multi-service subscribers across 10 countries and managing the worlds largest Cable MSO’s managed using JR’s solution, operational performance and scalability are proven. Founded in 1997, JacobsRimell is headquartered in London with offices in the US, and Europe. JacobsRimell is a privately held company financed by leading telecom venture capital firms Advent International, DN Capital, eTechnology VCT and Fidelity Ventures. Learn more at: www.jacobsrimell.com.

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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. Learn more at www.nominum.com.

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