DNS - DNS: Neustar Announces One-Day Porting Turnkey Service for Regional Operators

Neustar, Inc., a major player in providing carriers and enterprises with solutions for sending calls, messages and content across networks worldwide, introduced its one-day porting turnkey service for small-to-medium-sized operators.

An innovative and secure cloud-based architecture is utilized by this new technology solution, Neustar PortXpress. This further enables operators to reduce the interval for port requests to just one business day, enabling them to meet the Federal Communications Commission's new one-day number porting requirements by the Jan. 31, 2011, deadline without system modification or new capital investments.

"Organizations and consumers are accustomed to being able to take their telephone numbers with them as they take advantage of marketplace choices," said Steve Edwards, senior vice president, Carrier Services at Neustar, in a press release. "Neustar's new service makes it even easier for operators to manage these transitions and seamlessly connect their customers."

In a statement, Edwards added, "Neustar is the industry leader in number porting, processing millions of transactions a month in the US, Canada, Taiwan and Brazil. PortXpress builds on our strong foundation of number portability and network interconnection experience."

All operators, beginning January 31, 2011, will be required to provide enterprises and consumers with the ability to transfer basic telephone numbers from one operator to another in as little as one business day. The small-to-medium-sized, through PortXpress are allowed to easily comply with these new guidelines. The regional operators, who want to comply with this regulation, would require costly upgrades to their network services and an increase in reporting functions.

By granting operators access to real-time call routing information, PortXpress helps reduce costs and significantly improves time to service. It also reduces risk by streamlining simple number porting functionality and ensuring compliance with FCC (News - Alert) mandates to avoid potential non-compliance penalties.

Access to over 400 operators in the United States is provided by PortXpress. By delivering an always-on service through a Neustar-supported, web-based interface, it increases operator flexibility and scalability. To meet FCC requirements and deliver robust reporting capabilities while providing operators with the competitive advantage of speed to market in completing these required services, this dramatically simplified, cost-effective model for number portability is designed.

In related news, Neustar has announced that its UltraDNS network management portal has gone mobile.