Comment This is why ENUM was invented (Score 1) 199
This is why ENUM was invented.
This is roughly how it works:
1. Convert the phone number to a DNS query.
2. The result is the preferred way to connect to the user.
And DNS can change quite fast so it's dynamic :)
EC500 on Avaya phones also has some interesting features.
More details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENUM