Accudata Creates Database to Store VoIP Information

VIDB will enable providers to offer new services

DALLAS - Sept. 11, 2006 - Though there has been a large amount of chatter on the subject of storing VoIP information, no telecommunications company has actually done it. Until now. Accudata Technologies, which serves as one of less than 20 authorized Line Information Database (LIDB) storage centers in the United States, will begin beta testing of its VoIP information database (VIDB) in October. Accudata customers, such as service providers Synips Worldconnect and Teliax, who are already in talks to begin storing their information in Accudata?s VIDB, can then use this information to determine if a phone number is tied to a VoIP line and to provide calling name services previously unavailable about VoIP numbers.

"We've seen a lot of interest in the telecommunications industry throughout the years for just this kind of a database, and Accudata decided that the time for the VIDB is now," Accudata CEO, M. Gregory Smith, said. "With such a great demand, it is now only a matter of time before providers begin sharing information associated with VoIP numbers and begin offering services comparable to those found on landlines. And it's our VIDB that can make that happen."

VoIP telephone numbers present a unique challenge to telcos and end-users alike. For telcos and enterprises that make and validate collect calls, the mobility provided by VoIP creates billing problems since end-users can move from city to city. With the launch of the VIDB, service providers can mark which telephone numbers are VoIP numbers and store the caller name and address of the end-user; potentially providing alternate billing options.

"Accudata's VIDB is keeping them at the forefront of telecommunications technology, and that is where our company strives to be," said Synips US-NAP President and CEO Kraig Beahn. "Staying on top of technology, changing as the market changes, allows us to offer the most advanced capabilities to our customers and therefore, to remain competitive."

Service providers that choose to store VoIP information in the VIDB will have a number of options. Providers can compile LIDB and CNAM information into the VIDB, or they can continue to maintain separate databases. Accudata also shares a percentage of revenue when a VoIP service provider's information is purchased from its VIDB, offering providers a new revenue stream.

The VIDB is expected to launch for general availability by the end of the year.

About Accudata Technologies
Multi-award winning Accudata Technologies provides flexible access to data validation through innovative approaches to data transmission. The company serves as an access hub for validating information associated with traditional, mobile and IP-based telephone numbers. Its validation services include translating information between diverse protocols such as SS7, PSTN and IP in order to access local number portability and line information databases (LIDBs), name and address information (BNA) and bankcard transaction verifications. Additional information regarding Accudata can be found on the company's Web site: www.accudatatech.com.