Prague, 17 September – CZ.NIC association, administrator of the top-level domain .CZ and of the register of Czech ENUM domains, will hold a conference called ENUM Day 3 on Thursday, 15 October. The goal of this one-day event is to demonstrate and present the current topics associated with VoIP and ENUM to those who would like to make calls over the Internet in their companies/organizations or as individuals. The agenda includes several novelties focused on practical aspects of VoIP implementation and use. One of them is making calls over the Internet from cell phones. The participants will also be able to configure their cell phones for VoIP calls on the spot and subsequently use the cell phones in a competition with valuable prizes. This issue will have a stand-alone presentation with demonstrations. ENUM Day 3 will be officially started at 10 a.m. in the Metro theatre in Národní třída, Prague.

“The highlight of the conference will be the talk by our colleague Petr Hruška, who will offer step-by-step instructions on how to implement VoIP in a medium company. Petr Hruška will show the interested parties what they will need to implement VoIP, what kinds of problems they can face and how to resolve them,” explains Pavel Tůma from the CZ.NIC association.

Participants can also look forward to case studies that will feature experiences one academic (Silesian University in Opava) and one municipal authority (Most City Hall). This presentation will be accompanied by a talk about the implementation and expansion of ENUM in Great Britain and a lecture about VoIP security.

This edition of the conference brings one novelty - streaming of all presentations along with the subsequent discussions. The servers Lupa.cz and Mobilmania.cz and the Chip monthly agreed to act as media sponsors of the event. A ticket for the conference costs 200 CZK.

More information about ENUM Day 3, including a detailed agenda and registration form, can be found at http://enum.nic.cz/enumday3/.

ENUM in the Czech Republic

CZ.NIC Association launched the commercial operation of the ENUM system domain registry on 22 January 2008. More than 4554 ENUM domains, which represent 561 015 phone numbers, are registered in the Czech Republic as of today. This makes the Czech Republic one of the countries with the highest number of ENUM domains in the world. ENUM domains are registered by 21 registrars.

In Europe, ENUM is currently also used in Austria, Germany, Poland, Finland, Romania, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland. In several other countries it is being tested. The national ENUM domain is delegated in virtually all European countries. More information about ENUM can be found at enum.nic.cz.