Nightfire Software

The NPAC originally was set up to support enhanced routing capabilities required to facilitate Local Number Portability (LNP) which was mandated by the FCC to enhance local telephone service competition. Later, after the FCC mandated number pooling to extend the life of North America's 10-digit telephone number address schema, the NPAC and number portability made possible the implementation of national number pooling. Because the LNP network design enables routing decisions to be made at the personal telephone number.