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What is AxcessCodeSM?
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What is a Unique Market Identifier (UMI)?
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How often do I get an update of AxcessCodeSM?
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I already get calling codes from my buyers and sellers. Why do I need AxcessCodeSM?
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How accurate is Arbinet's AxcessCodeSM product?
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A central source for code is a great idea but will only work with mass adoption of the database. What steps is Arbinet taking to accomplish widespread usage?
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I already use an alpha code to manage my switches. Why should I change to use AxcessCodeSM?
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I am most concerned about managing traffic to mobile destinations. How could AxcessCodeSM help me to do that?
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We have multiple calling code tables in the hands of sales, LCR and switch management. How can you help me reconcile these users to a single database?
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We buy a lot of VoIP traffic and therefore need to manage calling codes down to the Central Office Level since they are terminating traffic to the PSTN only where they can do it at the "metro rate". How can AxcessCodeSM help me do this?
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My company likes the concept, but needs a resource to help me implement the solution in both the technical and commercial parts of my business. Can you help me?
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What other database products is Arbinet planning on developing in the future?
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What is the price for AxcessCodeSM?
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What is AxcessCodeSM?
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AxcessCodeSM is the most extensive source of calling code information available to carriers today. AxcessCodeSM provides over 10,000 breakout codes in 1,000 markets worldwide, each identified by a Unique Market Identifier.
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What is a Unique Market Identifier (UMI)?
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A ticker symbol for every destination in the world to simplify its identification as a discrete market. The UMI includes information on geographic location and service type that permits permanent route matching and simplifies routing and billing functions. Even though calling codes change, the UMI will remain constant. By including the Unique Market Identifier (UMI) as a commonly applied data field in your route management tool(s), it is easy to compare total traffic expected to be carried and establish sufficient facilities to meet forecasted demand.
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How often do I get an update of AxcessCodeSM?
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AxcessCodeSM is a bimonthly product available on the 1st and 16th days of every month.
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I already get calling codes from my buyers and sellers. Why do I need AxcessCodeSM?
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AxcessCodeSM allows you to standardize the calling codes used by you and your correspondent carriers. Therefore, you can increase the number of carriers with whom you interact and improve the efficiency of the resources dedicated to calling code management.
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How accurate is Arbinet's AxcessCodeSM product?
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AxcessCodeSM is the most current view of the international voice termination market. The members of Arbinet comprise its largest source. With over 12 billion minutes traded annually to over 10,000 breakouts, there is no more complete, neutral and current view. Arbinet's AxcessCodeSM team has a network of regulatory and carrier sources in 230 countries that proactively update Arbinet of future changes.
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A central source for code is a great idea but will only work with mass adoption of the database. What steps is Arbinet taking to accomplish widespread usage?
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Arbinet facilitates trading between hundreds of carriers including most of the world's largest. These carriers are already using AxcessCodeSM today to place their trades. With over 12 billion minutes traded annually, there is already widespread acceptance.
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I already use an alpha code to manage my switches. Why should I change to use AxcessCodeSM?
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Whenever a vendor or buyer adds or changes a breakout, the buying, switch management and sales organizations need to react as one. With different databases, that creates a massive administrative problem. AxcessCodeSM provides you with updates on a known schedule and in a form that is readable by any device used to manage your business. Plus, all of the information is associated with a unique market identifier that is static. In that way you can write business rules in every traffic management and reporting system to track performance in the current period and over time.
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I am most concerned about managing traffic to mobile destinations. How could AxcessCodeSM help me to do that?
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AxcessCodeSM integrates the service identifier into its codes so that type of traffic analysis is possible.
Further, AxcessCodeSM's breakdown of service type by carrier is a useful function for determining
the destination of mobile traffic.
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We have multiple calling code tables in the hands of sales, LCR and switch management. How can you help me reconcile these users to a single database?
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AxcessCodeSM will provide you with the calling code table in a CSV file that can easily be imported into all of your calling code databases. AxcessCodeSM flags exceptions on a route-by-route basis in the database so that you can set up business rules to flag special breakouts for special route optimization attention.
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We buy a lot of VoIP traffic and therefore need to manage calling codes down to the Central Office Level since they are terminating traffic to the PSTN only where they can do it at the "metro rate". How can AxcessCodeSM help me do this?
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AxcessCodeSM breaks every destination down to the city level and type of service. You can just route PSTN traffic at the city level as long as all of your suppliers adopt the common routing nomenclature of the Unique Market Identifiers (UMI).
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My company likes the concept, but needs a resource to help me implement the solution in both the technical and commercial parts of my business. Can you help me?
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Arbinet can provide consultative support at a modest cost. Please contact an Arbinet sales representative at +1.732.509.9151.
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What other database products is Arbinet planning on developing in the future?
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AxcessCodeSM is the first information product from Arbinet. Arbinet plans to introduce other such products in the future. All of our information services are intended to help eliminate margin loss due to the poor information flow between carriers. We currently plan to deliver AxcessRate and AxcessQuality, tools that will provide unbiased benchmark data about price and quality for every destination in the world.
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What is the price for AxcessCodeSM?
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AxcessCodeSM can be ordered as either a single copy for $900, or on an annual subscription basis for $450 monthly (billed quarterly).
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