Veraz to announce support for GSMA IPX spec

GSMA IPX initiative could change several things for cell operators. To start with, it can lower down interconnection costs substantially for cell operators. There are several value added services that could be enabled across multiple cell operator networks. Dawn Hogh, VP Marketing, Veraz Networks spoke to me today about her company’s support for the GSMA IPX spec.

The spec support involved enabling features such as certain type of transcoding and end-to-end QoS. Veraz has been pushing its peering solution for the last several months now. With the GSMA IPX support, it is now able to sell the peering solution to cell operators as well. But it will be the VoIP wholesale carriers that Veraz will be targeting first. VoIP wholesalers like iBasis, Telecom Italia and BICS are looking to cash in on the new opportunity (the multilateral GSMA IPX peering contract was awarded to NeuStar some time back). Veraz already has three customers for this GSMA compliant peering solution. BICS is one of them. Veraz will be making the BICS announcement on Monday.