PathFinder: The Power of Discovery
PathFinder is All About New Possibilities.
In the simplest terms, it helps reveal information about telephone numbers for traffic routing applications – which means you can reach virtually any telephone number on the planet.
PathFinder is a high-performance, high-availability telephone number registry, providing information on number ownership, destination network entry points, interconnect capabilities and other number registries.
PathFinder is based on ENUM technology, allowing you to access information in real time to inform interconnect routing decisions. It simplifies Number Portability, facilitates Next Generation network interconnect and enables IP service inter-operability.
How Does it Work
PathFinder uploads number portability information from authoritative sources around the world and enables that information to be queried from a single source. PathFinder allows network operators to provision and publish ENUM data in PathFinder adding to the information that can be discovered.
PathFinder: An Array of Possibilities
Number Portability Discovery Features:
Global Reach:
The NP Discovery service has extensive reach to national NP data with a combination of onboard data and external access covering almost two billion telephone numbers. That means the broadest range of NP corrected data available – an incredible 80% of the world’s total NP data.
Rapid Integration of New Regions:
Adoption of Number Portability is spreading country by country across the globe. The PathFinder NP Discovery service leverages powerful data integration technology to rapidly assimilate additional Number Portability data for new countries as demand dictates.
Complete Simplicity:
Providing ‘one-stop shop’ access to worldwide NP data, PathFinder NP Discovery Service simplifies System Integration and eliminates complexity for SPs – by allowing a singular standardised data interface, technology and business arrangement for accessing NP data.
Interconnect Discovery ENUM Features:
Global Discovery:
A single global root directory coupled to registries hosted by the PathFinder community and PathFinder hosting services ensures that global interconnect addressing and routing can be discovered from a single infrastructure.
Access Control:
Where PathFinder’s hosting service is used, its Rich Policy engine enables users to customise their publishing, allowing controlled discovery of addressing data to specified trading partners according to business arrangements.
Tailored Responses:
Flexibility to use the PathFinder Hosting Service to deliver private customised responses, enabling users to apply proprietary policy for internal routing use cases.
Customisation:
Extensibility that allows users to dynamically configure ENUM NAPTR parameters, enhancing their ability to introduce proprietary services and new industry standard services rapidly to the market.
International Data Distribution:
While operators may publish addressing and routing information hosted in their home network, PathFinder hosting services allow the data to be distributed globally improving performance by allowing regional query access that reduces message latency.
Hosting Economies:
The PathFinder infrastructure is a distributed shared resource, ensuring that both small and large capacity hosting requirements can be supported efficiently and cost effectively.
Key Benefits:
- Optimising voice traffic interconnect economics
- Increasing delivery success rates for SMS and reducing revenue leakage
- Improving dynamic routing
- Enabling end-to-end IP interconnect for NGN subscribers/customers
- Reducing legacy conversion costs
- Maximising the quality of interconnect in terms of minimal legacy to NGN conversions
- Introducing IP services with NP solved independent of neighbours
