SIP Express Router Supports Secure Inter-domain Peering TransNexus Contributes OSP Support to SER
The SIP Express Router now supports secure inter-domain peering using public key infrastructure services enabled by the Open Settlement Protocol. The new feature simplifies wholesale VoIP interconnection and reduces fraud risk.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) September 19, 2005 -- TransNexus has contributed a new
open source software module to the SIP Express Router (SER) which adds support
for the Open Settlement Protocol (OSP). The new module enables SER to use secure
public key infrastructure (PKI) services for secure inter-domain peering.
With the new module, VoIP operators using SIP Express Router
can:
* Generate a public/private key pair for their SIP
Express Router
* Obtain a signed certificate from a
certificate authority
* Send encrypted peering requests to
OSP servers
* Validate digitally signed access tokens for
inter-domain peering
* Report encrypted, standards based
accounting records to OSP servers
The business benefits for wholesale
VoIP carriers from these new features are:
* Capital
expense and bandwidth savings - secure inter-domain peering does not require a
session border controller.
* Lower operating costs and
reduced fraud risk - inter-domain access control based on PKI authentication is
more secure and simpler than maintaining IP access lists.
*
Lower administrative costs and faster revenue collection - secure call
accounting, with non-repudiation of call detail records, eliminates interconnect
settlement billing disputes.
The new module for the SIP Express Router is
available from http://osp-module.berlios.de/ and may be used with open source
OSP servers such as the OpenOSP or RAMS servers, available from www.sipfoundry.org. The
module has also been tested exhaustively and deployed using the TransNexus
Peering Server. The Open Settlement Protocol is an IP operations and billing
support systems protocol defined by the European Telecommunications Standards
Institute (ETSI), www.etsi.org.
OSP is officially known as ETSI Technical Specification 101 321 for inter-domain
pricing, authorization and usage exchange.
About
TransNexus
TransNexus has been an innovator of commercial and open source
VoIP Operations and Billing Support Systems (OSS/BSS) since 1997. TransNexus is
an active contributor to SIP Express Router, Asterisk and www.sipfoundry.org. The
TransNexus OSS/BSS solution provides wholesale VoIP carriers with an immediate
increase in net profits. Key features include Least Cost Routing, Quality of
Service Routing, PKI services for secure inter-domain peering, traffic analysis
and control, new revenues from wholesale services, and lower cost back-office
operations.
www.TransNexus.com
Contact: Alcina DeFigueiredo at
alcina.defig @ transnexus.com.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb286407.htm