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Lightyear Migrates to inetwork Infrastructure for VoIP Call Center E911 Call Routing

By Rajani Baburajan TMCnet Contributor

inetwork, a provider of VoIP call center and communications solutions including voice, SMS and 911, recently added Lightyear Network Solutions (News - Alert) as the latest VoIP service provider to migrate to inetwork's VoIP Enhanced 911 call routing solution.

"We are excited to help Lightyear streamline their operations and support their continued growth," said Bob Glosson, inetwork vice president of sales, in a statement. "inetwork's expertise and streamlined services allow Lightyear to focus on their customers, not the underlying complexity of E911 services." 

Lightyear provides data, voice and wireless telecommunications solutions to tens of thousands of business and residential customers across North America. The company’s product offerings include local PRI and digital T1, enhanced Internet services, MPLS, Ethernet, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), local and long distance service, and conferencing.

"Lightyear is pleased to partner with inetwork for VoIP E911 services," added Brian Garrison, Lightyear's vice president of Strategic Planning and Marketing. "inetwork's robust and user-friendly customer portal makes it easy for us to provision and manage E911 service. inetwork also offers us increased flexibility and a more competitive rate, which allows us to deliver a better product to our customers."

inetwork powers effective E911 solutions for interconnected VoIP, hosted PBX (News - Alert) and over-the-top (OTT) providers, in addition to automatic location information (ALI) services for local exchange carriers. The company also delivers a full set of solutions for innovative application developers and communication service providers.

According to a recent TMCnet piece, next generation 911 is evolving to a new service called next-gen vernacular: end-to-end.

End-to-end NG911 refers to an all-IP network using SIP and network elements defined in the National Emergency Number Association’s i3 standards that send and route 911 calls based on the location of the caller.

The unique differentiator in the NENA i3 standard is that the location of the 911 caller is transmitted in the SIP signaling stream when the 911 call is first made. The 911 call is then routed to the correct PSAP based on the location revealed in the call, and both the voice RTP stream and the location arrive at the PSAP over an IP/SIP network in an extremely short period of time.

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