Enum VoIP registry goes live in UK
News Enum, a VoIP registry service that removes a barrier to pure internet-based calling, went live in the UK on Thursday. The idea behind Enum is to allow businesses to use standard telephone numbers with their VoIP systems and have calls carried...
[March 12, 2009, 15:24]
Enum registry could revolutionise VoIP
News The so-called Enum (from tElephone NUmber Mapping) registry is to be created by Nominet, the company that already runs the .uk registry, after it won the UK contract on Thursday. The Enum registry could also play a major role in the convergence of...
[November 27, 2007, 12:06]
UK looks to unify telephones and the Internet
News A consultation launched earlier this month asks interested parties to give their views on ENUM. The ENUM project uses an architecture based on the Domain Name System (DNS) to resolve telephone numbers to domain name addresses.
[August 20, 2004, 17:40]
'Phone number' Internet addressing gains support
News The simpler Internet electronic numbering system, known as Enum, was first conceived in Europe and allows people to use one identifier for many different purposes, including mobile phones, email, instant messaging and faxes.
[August 14, 2003, 11:15]
US backs merging Net, phone numbers
News In a recent internal letter, the Commerce Department recommended that the United States participate in an emerging electronic numbering system, known as ENUM, that will allow people to use one identifier for many different purposes, including...
[February 14, 2003, 7:42]
YourSQL
Downloads Simple user interface for custom ENUM and SET type definitions with easy re-use in other tables to facilitate clean JOINs. Database browsing and editing Browse databases and tables. View and edit table definitions in a simple, all-in-one Design...
[June 29, 2008, 8:00]
Skype opens up to business phone systems
News Skype is looking "very closely" at the possibility of joining the Enum registry, which effectively acts as an interconnect between various islands of internet telephony connectivity, Oberg said. Enum went live in the UK last week, but cannot...
[March 23, 2009, 8:00]
JavaOne: notes from the classroom
Blog First, I realized the benefits of using Enum types versus using Bit Fields. On the other hand, by using Enums, Jumbo Enum Sets and EnumMaps, all of the above issues are reconciled with the same fast system performance as if I were using my old...
[May 9, 2008, 10:49]
VeriSign to buy Illuminet for $1.2bn
News With Illuminet, VeriSign said it will be able to offer data-voice products such as WebNum, a navigation service that enables wireless phones to link specific numbers directly to Internet domain names; services using Enum, which combines phone...
[September 24, 2001, 14:34]
ICANN approves .tel domain
News A similar initiative, called enum, already exists. Internet regulator ICANN has approved the creation of the .tel domain, the company that proposed the domain announced on Monday. Telnic, which proposed .tel to ICANN in 2000, said the domain will...
[May 16, 2006, 15:20]
Next generation SMS on its way
Blog It sounds jolly monopolistic to this bear, although NeuStar makes great play of its scrupulous neutrality in dealing with carriers, commitment to open standards - it's all done with SIP and ENUM - and that "the interests of the industry are the...
[December 1, 2006, 8:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It wasn't a complete Internet protocol, though, just some tweaks to addressing and DNS that let the Chinese address Web sites through phone numbers (a similar project, called ENUM, is already going through the approval process at the IETF).
[July 9, 2004, 19:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog VoIP, ENUM and number portability. Wednesday 2/08/2008 Vonage is also investing heavily in marketing — and also getting it in the neck from the market — although as far as I know the company has no stance on teh ghey pr0n.
[August 7, 2006, 13:40]
