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Sparkle, the international wholesale arm of Telecom Italia (News - Alert) Group and iBasis, a KPN company, have reportedly migrated their bilateral voice traffic to IP.

 

This is the first time enterprises have been able to completely migrate to IP of their international voice bilateral in compliance with guidelines developed by the i3 Forum.

 

According to a press release, i3 Forum is an independent industry alliance that helps in the promotion of an industry-wide transition of voice and related services to internet protocol.

 

The migration was a systematic process and before completing the migration both iBasis (News - Alert) and Sparkle validated the implementation of Premium Voice services over managed IP interconnects. The iBasis Premium Voice product has the ability to deliver a very high quality of service with guaranteed advanced features such as CLI, fax, ISDN Data and roaming.

 

This validation happened in a series of extensive trials indicating that the SIP-I protocol can effectively guarantee advanced call features such as CLI, international roaming, ISDN Data, fax and ISUPv2.

 

IBasis has enabled access to the service via managed IP interconnection since August of last year and reports strong demand in the marketplace. Its partner, Sparkle, decided to migrate most of its international Voice bilaterals to IP.

 

Sparkle hopes this will help it to further gain operational efficiency, increase its product set and completely exploit IP and end-to-end IPX capabilities, company officials said.

 

Francesco Armato, CEO of Sparkle said that both partners specialize in using IP for international voice service, and will continue to lead the industry being the first to fully migrate bilateral traffic to IP in compliance with i3 forum guidelines.

 

Paul Floyd, chief operating officer of iBasis said that more number of fixed and mobile operators are looking to migrate international Voice bilaterals to IP in order to leverage the efficiencies and potential of IP while maintaining very high quality of service.

 

“Our Premium Voice service over managed IP offers that capability,” Floyd said. “This approach is also a great step towards the IPX hubbing model which will allow mobile and fixed-line operators alike to easily monetize all kinds of traffic, including chats, video conferencing and presence through standardized IP interconnects.”