i3 Forum Library

i3 Forum provides a series of deliverables and other documents that explore the processes and challenges on the transition of international voices interconnections to Internet Protocol (IP).

  • Technical Workshop June 2010 Press Release.pdf
    June 10, 2010

     

    The i3 Forum, comprised of more than 37 telecommunications providers representing a combined retail base in excess of 1.5 billion customers in over 100 countries, has announced they will be hosting a two-day industry workshop with more than 20 leading vendors June 15-16 in Warsaw, Poland. As part of a series of partner-oriented initiatives, the i3 Forum will leverage its extensive industry knowledge to host the Technical Workshop in an effort to share its recommendations on the IP-transition and accelerate their implementation by the vendor community.

  • i3 Forum -Transitioning the industry to an all IP world - ITW 2010.pdf
    May 24, 2010

    Presentation made by Philippe Millet, Chairman i3 Forum as part of a keynote address at ITW - May 2010.  Taking our future in our own hands: Transitioning the industrty to an all-IP world.

  • i3F - Migration Interconnection Form release 3 (2010-05-20).xls
    May 24, 2010

    Migration Interconnection Form - Release 3, May 2010

  • i3F - Technical Interop Test Plan Release 3 Final _2010-05-20_.pdf
    May 24, 2010

    This Pre-Service Inter-Operability Test Plan aims to provide testing guidance when establishing a new transmission bilateral path between international VoIP carriers, ensuring signaling compatibly and providing quality and performance levels that meet customer quality expectations. This document covers the test approach, specific functionality, assumptions, and test cases that should be performed for the pre-service inter-operability between two international VoIP carriers before the delivery of customer traffic.

  • i3forum - Service value and process of measuring QoS KPIs v1 may2010.pdf
    May 24, 2010

    The main objective of i3Forum, representing a large portion of the international voice wholesale industry, is to continue to deliver the current standard for high quality to the market while introducing new technology and services over IP. In the i3Forum document "IP international interconnections for voice and other related services - (V 1.0) June 2009", a list of relevant quality parameters for voice services has been presented and discussed. The scope of this document is to further analyze both values and limits of measuring and controlling relevant quality parameters for Voice traffic transported over IP networks, in order to share with the industry a common understanding on what, when, where and how to use those parameters. An i3Forum position on a set of relevant KPI is also presented, aiming to clarify the implication on the reach of responsibility of the wholesale carriers, and to give guidance in the form of guidelines on managing these parameters. A pragmatic approach to introduce end-to-end quality monitoring is presented.

  • i3Forum - WS_Services routing and addressing v1 may 2010.pdf
    May 24, 2010

    Routing and addressing (R&A) for voice services has been traditionally managed mainly with E.164 country codes and blocks of numbers assigned to individual Service Providers (SP). Beyond voice, the routing of SMS and MMS messages is critically dependent on the knowledge of the distant network owner to ensure delivery of the message. Individual carriers have tackled these problems in ad-hoc ways leading to a non-optimized solution.  The industry foresees a rapidly increasing rate of number portability implementations worldwide. The launch of new services (beyond simple voice telephony) may further warrant additional specific routing based information on the terminating network, which can also include information based on the terminating device. This evolution calls for a more universal solution to address routing and addressing over international interconnections. The transition from TDM to IP interconnections creates new challenges but also new opportunities to manage Routing and Addressing.  This document aims to explain the needs of carriers and service providers to manage routing and addressing functions within the existing ecosystem, and the technical environment of the international interconnections business. This document does not intend to propose a specific architecture or solution.


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