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Carrier-Class Softswitch Enables Service Provider to Deliver Advanced Hosted IP Communications

iHub needed to find a platform that could not only provide the right hosted IP telephony services for iHub's customers, but also give iHub the tools to tap into the wider market by reselling the service through a channel of distributors and resellers. The company deployed Nortel for its solution...

Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., IP, Carrier-Class Softswitch, Network Technology, Networking

Case studies 2008-05-12

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Open Source Softswitch Adds Skype

Here's an interesting teaser for you Skype aficionados. Later this month, the new release of FreeSWITCH, the first open source softswitch, will enable carriers and enterprise to integrate Skype into their VoIP services and platform. For the first time, developers will have a free, high-performance voice switching...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Open Source Softswitch, ESL, Skype API, Asterisk, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Carrier Voice Transformation: Strategies for the Second Wave

Over the past years, fixed and mobile carriers have invested in the IP'ization of their network and the replacement of TDM switches with Softswitch-based architectures. Driven by the continuously changing technology and market environment, a second wave of IP Transformation is imminent. This webcast explores the new and critical strategies...

Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Alcatel, Business Services, Strategy, Networking, Management

Webcasts 2008-12-16

Will telcos accept an open source switch?

Will telcos accept an open source switch?Yeswhen they can call it their own, make loads of money off of it, patent what they can to make their part future payment secure, and piggyback the rest like a free ride.RE: Will telcos accept an open source switch?How does this this product...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, FS developer, Asterisk PBX, open source, telecommunications company, FreeSwitch

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Nortel Network Case Study: Telecom Egypt

Telecom Egypt, the incumbent telecommunications provider in Egypt, is also the largest provider of fixed-line services in the Middle East with more than 10.8 million customers as of December 2006. In a competitive and dynamic communications environment, Telecom Egypt faced the challenge of introducing new end-user VoIP services to meet...

Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2007-01-01

Sonus: gunning for 4 for 4 ILEC sweep?

Telecom networking publication Light Reading reports that softswitch vendor Sonus Networks will be BellSouth's softswitch provider when the Atlanta-based regional carrier gears up its residential VoIP service within the next 12 months.Because softswitches are the nexus for connections between circuit and packet-switched networks, such a partnership would give Sonus a...

Tags: Sonus Networks

Blog posts 2005-06-13

You need this barometer to know which way the VoIP wind blows

I've been around the IP Telephony world long enough to know that there are various barometers that have proven to be instructive about the state of the industry and where it is going.One of these barometers are trend lines for the sales of softswitch licenses. Also referred to as "call...

Tags: barometer, softswitch

Blog posts 2005-05-24