Yes .. but I don't have any pointers these are all private services. ENUM is now being used extensively in North America for both SMS and more specifically for MMS routing. This service is offered by at least three companies. NeuStar, Telcordia and TNS (Transaction Network Solutions) of Reston VA which recently acquired the telecom signaling assets of Verisign. Depending on the requirements of the customer either a URI for a MMSC or SMSC is returned or a SPID that is used to create a one to one peering arrangements (federation). In any event the business case is SS7/TCAP avoidance. The most popular application for ENUM in North America is Local Number Portability queries. The cost savings to carriers that do not have their own SS7 networks are considerable. Actually all the US mobile operators are routing MMS via ENUM queries including ATT and VZ there is a similar service available to Canadian Operators. The query can be to a database in the cloud over a secure connection or a full subscription to the routing databases can be delivered in-network to a caching ENUM server.
-----Original Message----- From: enum-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:enum-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Yoshiro YONEYA Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:15 AM To: enum-wg@ripe.net Subject: [enum-wg] ENUM for SMS?
Dear ENUM WG members,
In RFC 4355, enumservice for SMS is defined. Is there any cases that use ENUM for SMS routing in commercial service? If you know any information, please let me know or give me pointer(s) to the information.
Regards,
-- Yoshiro YONEYA <yone@jprs.co.jp>