<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This was in another thread, but I broke it out into it's own conversation. Someone had asked:</span></font><br><br>---<br><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Hi, </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I am joining this thread late, but, would anyone out there be interested in exchanging traffic with other carriers directly over SIP?</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The service would just look like a carrier, except it would know how to reach all other participants directly with SIP, bypassing TDM land, and enabling rich media as a fringe benefit, as media would be direct between endpoints.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I have a proof of concept and am wondering who out there might be willing to do some testing.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Email me directly if interested, to talk about your network and how something like this might fit in.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Cheers,</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Jawaid</span></font></div>---<br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">https://www.voip-info.org/the-voice-peering-fabric/</span></font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I can't find anything on this in 15 years, so I'm guessing it didn't work out for one reason or another. Can anyone impart some history there?</span></font></div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br></div></div></body></html>