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Veraz Networks Extending PSTN and VoIP Application Portability to Wireless Networks and Devices

Posted on: Monday, 19 September 2005, 12:00 CDT

Veraz Networks now extends the application portability that it has provided to PSTN and VoIP broadband networks, to wireless networks. Based on Veraz's service delivery platform and its library of native protocols, Veraz advances Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) by unifying the service layer and enabling application portability across wireline and wireless networks.

The path towards offering applications across different networks and multiple devices is challenged with a proliferation of signaling, call/session control, and service protocols. Protocols used in various TDM and VoIP networks in addition to wireless protocols such as IS-41, GSM-MAP, WIN and CAMEL provide a richness of features and parameters to support specific service sets. Some of today's market approaches require the choice of abandoning existing service platforms or compromising on feature richness because they can not natively support key protocols. Veraz's solution preserves and leverages the richness of existing and new protocols by having them accessible within the call control and services core. Veraz has built up a library of native protocols, and in combination with its programmable service broker unifying the service layer, it is easy to add new protocols such as wireless IN and ongoing enhancements to SIP and IMS related interfaces.

"We are starting to learn more about the different vendor offerings that address convergence," said Bettina Tratz-Ryan, Research Director at Gartner, Inc. "For those solution providers that have as part of their offerings a viable network architecture and service delivery platform to address both emerging IMS, as well as legacy IN integration, these solution providers will be sought after by the service providers as they plan their FMC."

The Veraz architecture incorporates programmable service broker capabilities that can coordinate between multiple service platforms, like legacy wireline SCPs, wireless SCPs, NGN app servers, and services within the Veraz ControlSwitch. Service providers on the path to FMC will experience less pain along this path because Veraz's architecture enables each layer (application, core/access network, and device) to converge independently and at its own pace. With a unified approach for applications, networks, and devices, Veraz is also eliminating the need to recreate or duplicate functionality across networks, reducing costs and simplifying the convergence process.

Both subscribers and service providers benefit from Veraz's approach. Subscribers will be able to centralize their communications control by integrating their wireless and wireline addresses, devices and service/subscriptions across their multiple communication devices. The increased customer loyalty will be just one of the many benefits realized by service providers.

Veraz's FMC approach is enabled by its family of programmable softswitch, service delivery and media gateway platforms that are based on a distributed architecture that maps to IMS to deliver voice and/or multimedia services to subscribers across any available access network, including over broadband access media such as DSL, cable, metro Ethernet or wireless broadband, in addition to mobile networks and existing narrowband digital loop systems.

"Customer acceptance of convergence requires operators to provide them with tangible benefits in addition to improved pricing value. Service Providers will benefit from service-rich offerings that leverage both existing and new service platforms to satisfy their customer's varied and multi-generational devices," said Doug Sabella, president and CEO of Veraz Networks. "With application portability, the Veraz architecture reduces the risk of the convergence process while multiplying its overall pace and benefit."

Commencing at VON, Veraz will start its rollout of a series of FMC applications and services bundles.

About Veraz Networks

Veraz Networks (www.veraznetworks.com) is the leading global provider of softswitch-based, toll-quality packet telephony solutions for traditional and next-generation communications networks. Built on a rich heritage of delivering carrier-grade products to over 700 customers in 140 countries, Veraz offers complete solutions to both established and greenfield carriers worldwide through its softswitch, media gateway, and digital compression products. Leveraging open, best-of-breed components and a global support and service infrastructure, Veraz partners with carriers to design and deploy carrier-grade next-generation networks tailored to meet their business objectives. By combining industry-leading, standards-based softswitch and media gateway platforms with robust management systems, Veraz offers unmatched flexibility to carriers -- a best-in-class integrated packet telephony solution as well as the freedom to choose best-of-breed individual products to match their unique network needs. Veraz solutions address a wide range of carrier applications such as tandem switching, domestic & international long distance, IP trunking, IP Centrex, as well as new voice-data services.

Veraz Networks is privately funded by Norwest Venture Partners, ECI Telecom (NASDAQ:ECIL), Argonaut Private Equity, Battery Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Levensohn Venture Partners. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA, with offices throughout the world.

Source: Business Wire

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