In joining Phonomenum, XO will offer its origination and termination products to participants of both the Peering Exchange and the Minutes Marketplace.

"We welcome XO to the marketplace of carriers who trust their VoIP traffic to our platform," said Ernie Hoffmann, Vice President of Engineering at FiberNet. "In doing so, XO demonstrates it understands and embraces the fundamental changes being brought about as a result voice delivered over IP."

XO VOIP Origination enables qualified service providers to receive local telephone calls from remote XO markets, different from the XO market in which the provider is physically located. Numbers provisioned through XO's VoIP Origination service will be populated into the Phonomenum Peering Exchange ENUM Registry, enabling members to terminate VoIP traffic directly with other members of the Peering Exchange. Currently, XO Origination reaches the top 75 US metropolitan markets.

XO VoIP Termination enables enhanced service providers to offer long distance VoIP access to residential and commercial customers. Marketplace members that need to deliver VoIP calls to PSTN numbers will be able to hand off VoIP traffic to XO, to be routed across the XO IP network at the highest priority and terminated to the PSTN at destinations across the United States.

"Our partnership with FiberNet's Phonomenum will enable a high-quality, next generation carrier grade service," said Ernie Ortega, President of Carrier Sales at XO Communications. "The transparency and carrier-grade quality of service assured us that Phonomenum was the right choice for XO."

Source: XO and Fibernet