Finnish ENUM Trial

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Finnish ENUM Trial

• Klaus Nieminen
• February 2004

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FICORA

• Main areas of operation
• Telecommunications
• Information security
• Electronic media
• Radiocommunications
• Postal operation
• Television fees

• Technical regulation
• Supervision of the communications markets
• Standardisation work coordination at national
  level
• Internet domain names, numbering resources

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History 1/2

• ENUM Basic Study Group
• November 2001 February 2003
• ENUM Basic Study Report (in Finnish)
• Basic principles, decision to start a pilot
• 3.5.8.e164.arpa delegation
• February 2003
• ENUM Pilot Group
• Founded in April 2003
• Planning and coordination of the pilot

• Pilot Group Participants
• FICORA
• Elisa Corporation
• Finnet
• Nordic LANWAN Communications Oy
• Saunalahti Group
• Song Networks Oy
• TeliaSonera Finland Oyj

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History 2/2

• ENUM Pilot Plan
• December 2003
• Restrictions
• Rules, architecture procedures
• Pilot management
• ENUM Test Plan
• January 2004
• Test management some potential test cases

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Pilot Decisions

• Schedule
• Started in December 2003
• Scheduled to end May 31, 2004
• Open for all interested parties
• Separated roles
• Telcos should allow users to participate
• Tier 1 is administered by FICORA
• Not in the commercial phase
• Registrar responsible for
• Validation removal from ENUM

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Pilot Decisions 2

• E.164 numbers
• Nationwide universal access numbers excluded
• Nationwide portable numbers
• ENUM registrations via FICORA
• Other piloted numbers
• ENUM registrations via telecom operator to whom
  the number have been assigned
• Large number blocks delegated to the operators
• E.g. 040, 050, 04555
• Number portability ? Inter-operator cooperation

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Open Questions

• Market interest?
• Resources
• Promote usage business opportunities
• Validation
• Still need to be solved
• Commercial architecture
• Possibilities to be evaluated
• Applications?
• Mostly VoIP, but also MMS routing
• Need for commercial ENUM clients capable phones

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Contact Information

• ENUM trial www-pages
• http//www.ficora.fi/englanti/tele/enum.htm
• Pilot administration at FICORA
• Klaus Nieminen, Klaus.Nieminen_at_ficora.fi
• Finnish ENUM Pilot Group
• Enum-pilot_at_ficora.fi
• Technical contact, fault reporting
• enum-admin_at_ficora.fi

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Thank You

• Any questions?