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Gordon Henderson wrote: > > Briefly it's a way to translate telephone numbers into something that > may be directly usable by a VoIP service. > > So for example, you could lookup my number: +441364698123 and get > something that may look like gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, then you can use the > latter to place a VoIP call to me, bypassing the PSTN. (Obviously the > PBX or phone would do the actual lookup) > I kind of have something like this already with my SipGate accounts. I have two geographic numbers, a 01872 (truro) and a 01326 (falmouth) and any incoming PSTN calls get routed to my sip phones automaticly. Any SipGate or friend company based calls to that number get a direct VOIP link. I guess the main difference here is that i can't register an arbitrary number, a new number is allocated from a pool of available numbers in each exchange. And this is limited to SipGate and friend companies not a internet wide system of lookups as the look ups are internal to SipGate. Its also free which is good (no registration fee) and i only need to pay for outgoing calls to a PSTN number, incomming calls from SIP or PSTN are free. Robin
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