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13/02/2012 - XConnect: Video communications poised for rapid expansion

Network peering specialist XConnect said it saw a 61 percent increase in revenue across all services in 2011, driven in part by a booming video communications market and a spike in traffic across the company's global network.

Business videoconferencing traffic growth is significantly outpacing overall business IP traffic, at a CAGR of 41 percent from 2010-2015, according to Cisco, which has projected a sixfold increase in videoconferencing traffic during that period.

Last year, XConnect launched the Video Interconnection Exchange (VIE), what it calls the world's first neutral federation for video communications. It has since established strategic alliances with such video ecosystem players as BCS Global and IPV to expand the video community and in an effort to make video calling as easy as voice calling.

XConnect said it saw a 78 percent increase in the number of calls handled, and growth in the volume of queries to its global ENUM-based registry to 3 billion, up 78 percent. XConnect's ENUM registry included 2.2 billion numbers at year's end.

"Our continued investment in groundbreaking technology and solutions is paying off with satisfying uptake in XConnect services for one-stop interconnection across networks and platforms," XConnect CEO Eli Katz said. "We continue to foresee rapid growth as video, high-definition (HD) voice and other next-generation services gain traction as more powerful devices and applications emerge almost daily."

The company said that in 2012, it would focus on continuing to meet growing demands for sophisticated interconnection services this year, and it planned to create more national federations with interexchange services partners, such as the one formed last month with Germany's DE-CIX, Katz said.

In 2012, XConnect also hopes to work with mobile network operators to integrate ENUM registry capabilities into the GSMA Rich Communications Suite (RCS-e) to enable operators to deliver instant messaging or chat, live video sharing, and file transfer across any device on any network and to benefit from growth of the over-the-top market to provide video and VoIP capabilities for social networks.

For more:
- see this release

04/02/2010 - XConnect doubled revenue in 2009

XConnect, a provider of international ENUM and peering services to communications service providers, experienced a near doubling of its revenue--rising 96 percent from 2008 to 2009. XConnect also saw 81 percent growth in IP traffic on its networks.

The company said in a release that its latest success shows the "rapid global adoption of VoIP." According to XConnect's CEO Eli Katz, "Rapid uptake of next-generation IP communications is driving our growth. We're seeing this because we provide an essential solution for service providers migrating from the PSTN."

XConnect provides the scalable and secure interconnection services for end-to-end all-IP communications that providers need for their buildouts. The company believes the rapid growth trend for IP will continue in 2010, spurred on by HD Voice and video offerings.

For more:
- read the release

15/09/2009 - XConnect raises $10M in Series B

XConnect, an interconnection and registry company, announced it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. Venrock Associates, Accel Partners, Grazia Equity and Crescent Point Group participated in the funding round.

According to the company, XConnect operates the largest worldwide ENUM-based IP peering federation, called the Global Alliance, which it says enables more efficient, affordable ways for network operators to deliver next-generation services such as HD Voice and video services.

XConnect CEO Eli Katz said he thought completing the Series B round in the current economic climate is a strong validation of the company's focus on the network migration to IP.

"We will utilize this new investment to expand our global reach in marketing and sales in different locations," Katz said. "And the second side is to expand our product portfolio."

Katz said the company began seeking the funding in Q2, and that he sometimes travelled 40,000 miles in a week to meet with venture capital firms around the world. He said since the company's services and customer base are global, XConnect wanted to seek funding from a geographically dispersed group of backers to reflect the scope of its business.

29/04/2009 - XConnect Appoints IP Expert Shockey To Board

Richard Shockey has joined the advisory board of XConnect, the VoIP and Next Generation Network (NGN) interconnection service provider.
A pioneer in ENUM (Electronic NUMbering) and expert in VoIP, Shockey is a founder and has been co-chair since 2002 of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) ENUM Working Group.

23/04/2009 - XConnect adds new VoIP peering options

XConnect announced Wednesday a new set of enhancements for VoIP peering. Under XConnect's Global Alliance program, service providers can interconnect with partners they select under the settlement and policy terms they choose. Providers can connect to Global Alliance either via managed private or public IP.

New features added to XConnect include the ability to utilize policy control to create and manage federations, exchanging voice and multimedia traffic only with peering partners they select, with the ability to select either settlement or settlement-free options.

Global Alliance customers can now use a web portal to identify and select interconnection partners, as well as get access to real-time QoS details and advanced reporting.

There's also support for "-In" and "-Out" termination, where members can make money by receiving inbound traffic from the PSTN into their networks based on XConnect's ENUM registry (In) or terminate outbound VoIP traffic through XConnect based on a standard per-minute billing model (Out).

Finally, service providers have the option to extend subscribers' free calling options by peering with IM communities, such as Google Talk.

For more:
- Xconnect's release on new VoIP peering features.

15/03/2009 - Nominet launches UK ENUM registry

Nominet has gone live with its UK ENUM registry. Customers will be able to register phone numbers for mapping directly to domain name addresses for easier connectivity in a variety of applications.

ENUM works by translating an old-fashioned phone number into an Internet domain name, allowing people to continue to use an existing phone number on the legacy phone network, as well as enabling seamless transfers of VoIP applications from the IP world to the phone world.

Using ENUM allows phone calls to be routed via DNS lookup, so you can map a phone number in the real world to a SIP session; making a phone call to a particular email address, for example. Call forwarding, follow-me, and other enhanced services can also be enabled by the proper application of ENUM with other tools.

Nominet, one of the largest Internet registries in the world, won the contract to be the UK ENUM registry back in 2007.

For more:
- Nominet post.

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