Anta Systems Announces General Availability of Its Simplicity VoIP System.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Spring VON 2004 SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004 Solution Gives Small-to-medium Enterprises and Service Providers a Simple, Cost-effective Way to Deploy VoIP Anta Systems, Inc., a developer of affordable, turnkey Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) solutions, today announced the general availability of its Simplicity(TM) VoIP System. Utilizing its patent-pending software Digital Signal Processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ) technology, and open industry standard Linux and Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP), Anta's solution enables small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and service providers to cost-effectively deploy enhanced VoIP services such as IP Centrex A telephone service in which an IP-based PBX is located in the telephone company's facilities. It connects to the customer via the LAN rather than by telephone wires. IP CENTREX offers voice over IP and other IP-based services as well as connectivity to the regular telephone system (PSTN). , VoIP conferencing, and visual voicemail Visual Voicemail or Random Access Voicemail is the process of adding a visual aspect to mobile phone voicemail and allowing users to listen to their messages in the order of their choice. . For a demo of Anta Systems' Simplicity VoIP System, visit booth #913 at the Spring VON show in Santa Clara, CA, March 29-March 31, 2004. "VoIP continues to be difficult to deploy due to the complexity associated with the integration of multiple network elements, including media gateway, softswitch, application server, media server, session border controller A Session Border Controller is a device used in some VoIP networks to exert control over the signaling and usually also the media streams involved in setting up, conducting, and tearing down calls. , routers and firewall," said Martin Luu, Anta's Co-founder and VP of Engineering. "Anta has taken out that complexity, creating a fully integrated VoIP solution that enables small businesses to reap the cost benefits of VoIP, and enables tier two service providers to differentiate themselves by delivering enhanced services to their residential and business customers." Anta's Simplicity(TM) VoIP System is the industry's first end-to-end SIP-based VoIP solution that includes a fully integrated VoIP service switch, a plug & play IP-PBX and business-class SIP phones. Products include: -- Simplicity(TM) VoIP Service Switch - A turnkey VoIP switch that fully integrates the functionalities of a media gateway, softswitch, media server, application server & session border controller. It is designed to enable VoIP service providers to quickly and cost-effectively launch basic residential and business VoIP services as well as enhanced services such as IP Centrex, visual voicemail and VoIP conferencing. -- Simplicity(TM) SME (1) (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) See SMB. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual who is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. IP-PBX - An affordable "plug & play" IP-PBX that has all of the traditional PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). features, as well as a suite of enhanced applications such as auto-attendant, visual voicemail, 9-way conferencing and remote access capability. It is designed to be deployed in multi-site SMEs or as a Managed IP-PBX solution by service providers. -- Simplicity(TM) SIP Phones - Intelligent business-class IP phone and soft phone that incorporate Anta's patent-pending advanced audio processing and dynamic phone configuration protocol (DPCP DPCP Display Port Content Protection (Philips) DPCP Digital Phone Control Protocol (Calista) ). Key Advantages of Anta's Simplicity(TM) VoIP solution include: -- Best VoIP Value with Soft DSPs - Reduce upfront capital investment and eliminate proprietary hardware platform lock-up -- Superior Voice Quality with Advanced Audio Processing - Calls sustained with up to 40% packet drop and 500ms of latency -- Plug & Play Anywhere with NAT/Firewall Traversal - Seamlessly penetrate NAT/Firewalls without the need for a STUN (Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT) A protocol that allows applications to detect that a network address translation (NAT) is being used. It can also detect the type of NAT and IP address assigned by it. server or Session border controller -- Centralized Provisioning with Auto Configuration of SIP Phones - Large operation cost savings with centralized Web-based management and instant phone provisioning -- Scalable, Resilient and Self-Healing VoIP Architecture - High availability and scalability (scales from 2,000 subs per box to 20,000 subs per 10+1 cluster) "With the proliferation of broadband into homes and enterprises worldwide, VoIP is emerging as the `killer data' application," said David Tang, Anta's Co-founder and VP of Sales and Marketing. "Anta's solution enables service providers, such as CLECs, BLECs and ISPs to finally break the last mile bottleneck of the incumbent telephone carriers and offer high quality revenue-generating voice services. At the same time, businesses can use Anta's IP-PBX solution to establish private VoIP networks to connect multiple branch locations; thus reducing intra-office telephony costs and enabling anywhere VoIP remote access." Pricing and Sales Information Pricing for Anta's Simplicity(TM) VoIP solutions includes 3 key components: platform, application software license, and annual service and support. For additional information, please call 408-986-1398 or send an e-mail to sales@antasystems.com. About Anta Systems: Anta Systems Inc. is a leading provider of affordable end-to-end SIP-based VoIP solutions including a VoIP Service Switch, IP-PBX, business-class SIP phones and enhanced applications like IP-Centrex, Visual Voicemail and VoIP Conferencing. The company's mission is to help reduce the cost and complexity of VoIP deployments for service providers and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) worldwide. Anta Systems is based in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . For more information on the company and its products, visit http://www.antasystems.com. |
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