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Lucent
Introduces Multiservice VoDSL Solution
HelloSoft
Introduces VoIP Development Solution
Time
Warner Deploys Sonus' Packet Telephony Equipment
MedCases
Deploys ITXC's VoIP eCommerce Technology
Data
Connection Introduces DC-SIP Protocol Software Solution
HotTeleLink
to Offer MHL's VoIP Enabling Device
ISI
Develops Its CC&B Solutions to Interoperate With Cisco's VoIP
Armstrong
Group Trials Syndeo's Softswitch Solution
Brix/Inlec
to Trial PhoneFree's Gateway For MTU Service
MetaSwitch
Installs VoDSL/SS7 Voice Platform For SaskTel Trial
NeTrue
Contracts With Shanghai Bell for Provision of VoIP/VSAT
CommWorks
Develop Universal Port (Voice/Fax/Data) Technology
SBC
Expands Distribution Agreement With Nortel Networks
Zhone
Licenses Virata's DSP Software
TELOS
and AudioCodes Team to Develop Wireless VoIP Solutions
Alcatel
to Integrate Trillium's MEGACO/H.248 Software
Finisar
Completes Acquisition of Shomiti Systems
Lucent Introduces Multiservice VoDSL Solution
Lucent Technologies has announced the introduction of the PSAX GR-303/LES
(Loop Emulation Service) gateway software, its new software for its PacketStar
PSAX Multiservice Media Gateways that enables users to develop VoDSL systems.
The software, which is based on ATM Forum standards and certified to
interoperate with both Lucent's and various other vendor's Class 5 switches, is
designed to enable users to develop high-speed Internet access and advanced
telephony solution/services for the small to mid sized corporate markets. The
solution translates digital voice traffic from DSLAMs into a format
understandable by Class 5 switches in the PSTN, and it incorporates a
softswitch-ready API for toll-tandem/call control applications. It runs on the
vendor's PSAX model 1250 and 2300 products, and offers support for multiple
combinations of services including VoDSL, VMOA (Voice and Multimedia over ATM),
frame relay and IP routing. It is also interoperable with Lucent's array of DSL
equipment including the AnyMedia Access Systems, Stinger DSL Access
Concentrators and CellPipe IADs, and it can be used to develop end to end
solution that will aid in migrating from circuit to packet based networks.
The PSAX GR-303/LES capability is currently available via software
upgrade to existing PSAX customers in North America and select other countries,
with plans for an ETSI V5.2 protocol compliant version of the solution to be
available later this year.
Lucent Technologies
http://www.lucent.com/
HelloSoft Introduces VoIP Development
Solution
HelloSoft has reported the introduction of HelloVoice, its
software solution for OEMs developing VoIP products and systems. The technology
is designed to be integrated into a variety of products from IP phones and CPE
to central office IP gateways. It performs codec functions at the phone,
workplace, or central office levels, converting analog voice signals to and from
digital IP data packets. It offers support for a variety of DSP based speech
codecs including G.729 (CS-ACELP codec, 8 kbps), G.723.1 (dual rate MP-MLQ/ACELP
coder, 5.3, 6.3 kbps), G.726/727 (ADPCM codec, 64 kbps to 40, 32, 24, 16 kbps),
and G.728 (LD-CELP, 16 kbps), and offers additional capabilities such as line
echo cancellation, signal classification, DTMF generation/detection, voice
activity detection and comfort noise generation. It accepts H.323 (H.225,
H.245), SIP, MGCP and MEGACO network protocols, providing packet handling
services including packetization/depacketization, lost or out-of-sequence packet
handling, and adaptive jitter buffer. In addition, it can be configured to work
with various QoS technologies such as DifServ, RSVP and MPLS.
HelloSoft
http://www.hellosoft.com/
Time Warner Deploys Sonus' Packet Telephony Equipment
Time Warner Telecom announced that it has deployed Sonus Networks' packet
telephony products, including softswitches and media gateways, to initially
support dial-up Internet access traffic, with plans to further develop the
network to support VoIP services. The company has initially installed a Sonus'
GSX9000 Open Services Switch, the PSX6000 SoftSwitch and the SGX2000 SS7
Signaling Gateway solutions combined with Riverstone Network's RS series of
switch routers in eight U.S. markets including Austin, Binghamton (NY),
Cincinnati, Columbus (OH), Indianapolis (IN), Milwaukee, New York City and San
Diego to augment its existing Class5 circuit switches and offload
modem-generated Internet traffic for the voice network. It eventually plans to
leverage the Sonus equipment based infrastructure to offer both traditional
local and long distance services and well as VoIP, and enhanced offerings such
as unified communications, single number access, call centers, etc. It also
plans to deploy Sonus' packet voice equipment in select other markets that it
offer services.
Time Warner operates local and regional optical networks
in 39 U.S. metropolitan markets. It has also recently reported that it is
planning to deploy Unisphere Networks' packet telephony technologies in various
U.S. markets to develop support for VoIP and other enhanced Internet and PRI
based services.
Time Warner Telecom
http://www.twtelecom.com/
Sonus Networks
http://www.sonusnet.com/
MedCases Deploys ITXC's VoIP eCommerce Technology
MedCases, an operator of online simulated case-based learning systems for
physicians, said that it has integrated ITXC's VoIP eCommerce technology, Push
to Talk (PTT), into its web based e-learning programs and applications to enable
users to initiate communications with a pharmaceutical representative or a
MedCases' CSR. The PTT system can be integrated into web sites and/or email
communications to enable visitors/recipients to initiate real time PC to phone
voice communications by clicking a call icon/link, without disrupting the
existing Internet connection. All traffic from the pay per call based service is
routed over ITXC's global Internet telephony network, which has 466 POPs in 263
cities and 96 countries, enabling affiliated providers to route traffic to any
telephone in the world via the infrastructure, ITXC's affiliate provider's
networks, the public Internet or the PSTN. ITXC also implements its own patent
pending BestValue Routing technology to control the quality of calls.
MedCases
http://www.medcases.com/
ITXC
http://www.itxc.com/
Data Connection Introduces DC-SIP Protocol Software
Solution
Data Connection Limited (DCL) has announced the introduction of
the DC-SIP, its SIP based source code solution for OEMs developing SIP based
products such as IP telephones, unified messaging systems, IADs and trunking
gateways. The product offers support for the IETF SIP Working Group drafts and
RFCs, as well as several other developing technologies such as SIP-T, which is
designed for carrying encapsulated traditional telephony signaling protocols
within SIP. The solution runs within DCL's N-BASE portable execution environment
to provide scalability and flexibility, and facilitate the distribution of
protocol components across different hardware configurations. The N-BASE system
has also been ported to various operating systems including VxWorks, pSOS,
Chorus, Nucleus, OSE, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, and Windows NT, and has been used
on a several processors including x86, i960, Motorola 860, Sparc, IDT and MIPS.
In addition, the vendor is offering pre-ported solutions for various operating
systems including VxWorks, Solaris and Windows.
Data Connection Limited
http://www.dataconnection.com/
HotTeleLink to Offer MHL's VoIP Enabling Device
Teleconomico reported that it has entered into an agreement with MHL
Communications, in which its entity, HotTeleLink, will market MHL's VoIP
enabling device, PhoneBridge, to the users of its PC to phone VoIP service,
which enables subscribers to place calls to traditional telephones throughout
the U.S. as well as over 200 other international markets.
The
PhoneBridge unit, which connects between a PC's or MAC's speakers/microphone and
full duplex soundcard, enables a user to plug in a traditional telephone,
including cordless models, to place calls over the Internet. It is also
interoperable with several ITSP's PC to PC, PC to phone, phone to phone and web
based VoIP offerings.
MHL Communications
http://www.phonebridge.com/
HotTeleLink
http://www.hottelelink.com/
ISI Develops Its CC&B Solutions to Interoperate With
Cisco's VoIP
ISI announced that it has partnered with Cisco to develop
interoperability between its billing/accounting solution, Infortel for Windows
with VoIP View, and Cisco's line of VoIP systems and circuit switched products.
The interoperable technology will provide users with a migration path from a
circuit switched environment to converged VoIP infrastructures. The VoIP View
module collects CDRs from Cisco's CallManager 3.0x to 3.08, on both the MCS and
ICS platforms, and generates customizable reports for both internal charge back
and cost accounting requirements. It can also provide call accounting for
traditional voice networks and combinations of traditional voice and Cisco's
CallManager based IP networks. In addition, the product can be used to allocate
VoIP costs within an organization, provide productivity reporting and fraud
control, and bill-back to clients.
ISI
http://www.isi-info.com/
Cisco
http://www.cisco.com/
Armstrong
Group Trials Syndeo's Softswitch Solution
The Armstrong Group, owner of
telephone and cable service operators in the eastern U.S., said that it has
initiated telephone service trials at undisclosed location(s) based on Syndeo
Corporation's broadband softswitch platform, Syion 426. The Syion product
provides software-based, primary-line Class 5 switch capabilities over DSL,
cable and fixed wireless broadband access networks. It also offers support for
various regulatory services such as emergency lifeline, operator and lawful
intercept.
The trials are expected to last approximately 3 months.
Armstrong owns and operates independent rural local telephone companies in New
York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland.
Syndeo Corporation
http://www.syndeocorp.com/
Brix/Inlec to Trial PhoneFree's Gateway For MTU Service
Brix/Inlec Communications, a Philadelphia based CLEC, said that it is
planning to develop a trial voice/web service for its multi-tenant unit
customers in various Northeastern U.S. markets based on PhoneFree's Gemini
Gateway, a customer premise/network interface device. The trial will be marketed
as a second phone line service. Trial participants will be able to place both
flat-rate domestic and international calls from any telephone in the home over
PhoneFree's network, and access CLASS and custom calling features such as voice
mail, and web-based options such as customized wake-up calls.
The
H.323/SIP compliant Gemini unit, which features two ports, is a solid-state
network-interface device designed specifically for broadband technologies. It
supports both VoIP and PSTN pass-through, as well as QoS technologies such as
RSVP, voice-activity detection, silence suppression, and jitter buffers.
Brix/Inlec Communications
http://www.inlec.net/
PhoneFree
http://www.phonefree.com/
MetaSwitch Installs VoDSL/SS7 Voice Platform
For SaskTel Trial
MetaSwitch announced today that it has successfully
installed and demonstrated its VoDSL/SS7 broadband voice platform, MetaSwitch
VP3000, in SaskTel's NGN trial network. The trial network was configured using
the MetaSwitch to deliver downstream voice services through an Alcatel ASAM
1000, while simultaneously connecting directly to an SS7 network. Calls and
caller ID information are also routed between telephones on both the ADSL/ATM
and SS7/TDM networks, using a Nortel DMS Broadband Signal Transfer Point (STP),
with media trunks into a peer Nortel DMS Class 5 switch.
SaskTel
http://www.sasktel.com/
MetaSwitch
http://www.metaswitch.com/
NeTrue Contracts With Shanghai Bell for Provision of
VoIP/VSAT
Shanghai BeTrue Infotech, a joint venture between Shanghai
Bell and NeTrue Communications (51 percent owned by NeTrue), has contracted with
Shanghai Bell for the provision of VoIP and VSAT technologies based on NeTrue's
software and hardware systems. According to the terms of the approximately US$4
million contract, BeTrue, the project leader, will integrate carrier class IP
gateways, gatekeepers and BackOffice management software as well as Vipersat
Networks' (another NeTrue division) VSAT satellite communications system into
Shanghai Bell's infrastructure.
The installation and systems integration
is expected to begin this fall, with completion scheduled for at least the end
of the year.
Shanghai Bell
http://www.sbell.com.cn/
NeTrue Communications
http://www.netrue.com/
CommWorks
Develop Universal Port (Voice/Fax/Data) Technology
CommWorks Corporation
has reported that it is developing new universal port technology to enhance its
various hardware systems capabilities to support using the same dial port to
terminate voice, data and fax calls. The universal port system is expected to
merge current remote access functionality with specific VoIP offerings, and
offer support for various applications such as dial access, phone to phone
voice, both real time and store and forward fax, and offer support for SIP
technologies as well as various back-end services to facilitate the addition of
capabilities such as directory mapping and billing.
The technology is
expected to enter the testing phase by summer, and be commercially available
before the end of the year.
CommWorks Corporation
http://www.commworks.com/
SBC Expands Distribution Agreement With
Nortel Networks
SBC Communications has reported that it has expanded a
distribution agreement with Nortel Networks to include supporting and offering
Nortel's PBX, key systems and IP telephony equipment throughout its Pacific
Bell, Southwestern Bell and Ameritech markets. In addition, the company will
also provide network design, implementation and management support for the
equipment, as well as an array of local and long distance services.
Nortel Networks
http://www.nortelnetworks.com/
SBC Communications
http://www.sbc.com/
Zhone Licenses Virata's DSP Software
Virata said
that Zhone Technologies has licensed its vCore DSP software, which includes its
signaling, fax relay, voice processing and voice compression algorithms and
protocols. Zhone intends to use the technology to develop a single-platform
solution that can enhance efficiency and lower costs in a carrier's existing
voice network, and offer a migration path to packet-based infrastructures. The
vCore product consists of DSP software and host processor software for VoIP
transcoding, telephony processing and computer telephony functions.
Zhone Technologies
http://www.zhone.com/
Virata
http://www.virata.com/
TELOS and AudioCodes Team to Develop
Wireless VoIP Solutions
TELOS Technology said that it is teaming with
AudioCodes to develop VoIP solutions for 2G and 3G networks. The firms intend to
develop the solutions based on TELOS' wireless technologies combined with
AudioCodes' array of VoIP products.
AudioCodes
http://www.audiocodes.com/
TELOS Technology
http://www.telostechnology.com/
Alcatel to Integrate Trillium's MEGACO/H.248 Software
Trillium Digital Systems has reported that Alcatel is planning to use its
Media Gateway Control Protocol (MEGACO/H.248) IP telephony software solution to
develop enhanced IP telephony gateway/Trunking Media Gateway solutions.
Alcatel
http://www.alcatel.com/
Trillium Digital Systems
http://www.trillium.com/
Finisar Completes Acquisition of Shomiti
Systems
Finisar Corporation announced that it has completed the
acquisition of privately held Shomiti Systems. Terms were not disclosed. Shomiti
offers a variety of Network QoS solutions for 10/100 Gb Ethernet and VoIP
infrastructures.
Finisar Corporation
http://www.finisar.com/
Shomiti Systems
http://www.shomiti.com/
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