The State of VoIP Peering

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The State of VoIP Peering

Hunter Newby Chief Strategy Officer The telx
Group, Inc. hnewby_at_telx.com www.telx.com 212.480.3
300 ext. 2003
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Where were we in Feb 05?

• VoIP Peering Summit I
• We were looking for some direction
• (MapQuest To Bi-Lateral VoIP Peering From Here)
• (MapQuest To Multi-lateral VoIP Peering From
  Here)

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Where are we now in Jan 06?

• 2006 will be the Year of VoIP Peering
• Rich Tehrani TMC
• CableLabs RFI on VoIP Peering
• 18 Billion Minutes Peering on the VPF
• Telefonica signs with Infiniroute for VoIP
  Peering conversion services

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What Happened?

• Time Passed
• Mature Technology Materialized
• New problems were met with newer solutions
• A sound business case emerged
• VoIP Trunking is about lower cost for termination
  Lower OPEX

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What Changed?

• Perception
• Reality

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What is REALLY happening?

• ENUM thats what!
• SIP thats what!
• Carrier cost savings of 50
• Provisioning and termination
• Enterprise cost savings of 50
• Provisioning and termination
• No loops
• Contract term compression
• Wholesale rates

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Show of Hands

• How many of you believe?
• It has begun?
• It works?
• Its growing?
• Its the future?
• Good for all of those hands because it is the
  TRUTH!

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Where will we be in Oct 06?

• VoIP Peering Summit IV!
• Major Enterprise VoIP Peering Announcements
• Drive enterprise awareness
• Drive more carriers to offer SIP based peering
  links to their networks

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Where will we be in Oct 06?

• VoIP Peering is adopted as a sales strategy by
• Integrators
• Hardware Vendors
• Transport Providers
• Carrier Hotels
• Others

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Does Voice Traffic Decrease?

• NO
• VoIP Peering is a catalyst for even MORE calls as
  OPEX is reduced dramatically
• Flat rate, unlimited use calling plans create a
  worry-free, no overage, no BIG BILL environment

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Community Development

• VoIP Peering enables business-class P2P
• The evolution of email to voice
• From the inter-networked community grows
• New business processes
• New services
• New revenues
• Never Before Conceived!

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State of VoIP Peering Summary

• Ride the Wave of Time
• This is all a simple matter of evolution
• Off-the-shelf technology
• Mature MIS and IT departments
• IP knowledge and trust
• Ethernet transport availability
• The same network growth pattern of ISPs in the
  early 90s unfolds again
• Peering makes sense, Peering works!

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THANK YOU!
The State of VoIP Peering

Hunter Newby Chief Strategy Officer The telx
Group, Inc. hnewby_at_telx.com www.telx.com 212.480.3
300 ext. 2003