TargusInfo, a caller name provider, has announced that Onvoy Voice Services, a Zayo Group company, has renewed a multi-year agreement to provide caller name services.

The agreement provides Onvoy with both CNAM services and storage, company officials say, adding that the idea is to make CNAM listings more accessible to nationwide providers.

"Offering caller identification services with the widest coverage and accuracy is a necessity for providers of all types and sizes," said Fritz Hendricks, president, Onvoy Voice Services.

"For many providers, attempting to keep up with the rapid changes in CNAM data in 2009 is like trying to take a sip from a fire hydrant through a straw," said George Moore, CEO and chairman, TargusInfo, adding that their CNAM repository of more than 410 million CNAM records sourced by telecommunications companies allows such benefits as standardized display, flexible pricing model and multiple connectivity options.

TargusInfo is a privately held company headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. Onvoy Voice Services is headquartered in Minnesota.

In August TMC's Rajani Baburajan reported that Tekelec (News - Alert), a supplier of network switching solutions and diagnostic systems, had been selected by Iowa Network Services and Onvoy Voice Services to monitor those companies’ signaling system 7 – SS7 – and voice over Internet protocol traffic.

The SS7 network, co-owned by INS and Onvoy, was in need of a traffic monitoring system owing to the increasing volume of IP traffic on the individual networks, Baburajan reported at the time.

"Tekelec’s integrated applications solution monitors, correlates and reports on multi-protocol network traffic to deliver critical business intelligence information for troubleshooting, traffic management and improved network efficiency," she said.

According to Baburajan, Tekelec’s comprehensive network monitoring and reporting capabilities in both signaling system 7 and session initiation protocol domains prompted the companies to deploy the service.