Cantata Technology Announces Significant Enhancements to its IMG 1010 Integrated Media and Signaling VoIP Gateway.New Release Raises the Bar with Leading Features for ENUM, Load Balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and 20+ Additional Enhancements NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Cantata cantata (kəntä`tə) [Ital.,=sung], composite musical form similar to a short unacted opera or brief oratorio, developed in Italy in the baroque period. Technology[TM], one of the world's leading independent providers of enabling communications technology, today announced several significant enhancements to its award-winning IMG IMG International medical graduate, see there 1010[TM] media and signaling VoIP gateway product, including support for ENUM and load balancing. In total, the new release includes more than twenty additional features that enable service providers and enterprises to deploy "next generation" services on "now generation" networks. Some of the key features of the new release include: * ENUM support: the IMG 1010 translates phone numbers into SIP addresses and lets SIP users call each other directly without a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. service, for faster connection times and lower phone charges * Load balancing support: a feature not available in competitive products, the IMG 1010 works with load balancers to provide better distribution of SIP traffic for improved scalability and fault tolerance * Enhanced any-to-any signaling: adds complete mapping between ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. and SS7, based on ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. Q.699 standard, and CAS support for more connectivity options with worldwide telecom operators * SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. enhancement: adds three more industry standard MIBs to allow more centralized configuration and monitoring in a network operation center * Additional Radius features: for prepaid applications, accepts messages from the Radius server for call duration and call redirection services, for faster processing of prepaid user agreements at the edge of the network The award-winning IMG 1010 is an integrated media and signaling VoIP gateway that provides any-to-any network connectivity, enabling delivery of SIP services into legacy SS7, PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. and CAS networks, as well as IP-to-IP transcoding to connect IP networks using different protocols. The IMG 1010 offers the widest range of network interfaces in a compact, high density 1U package, allowing service providers to deploy applications across fixed and mobile networks worldwide. The IMG 1010 has already been deployed by more than 55 carriers in 20 countries, spanning five continents. What the Industry is Saying "Cantata has entered the Service Provider gateway market with a unique product that positions them well to strategically address the growing Low Density Gateway market--a VoIP market segment that has posted strong growth over the last 12 months," said Jeremy Duke, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Synergy Research Group. "Cantata's IMG has been a popular choice among carriers within the Voice Peering Fabric. Its unique attributes include a compact form factor, SS7, and transcoding. The recent addition of ENUM support makes this product one of a kind," said Shrihari Pandit pan·dit or pun·dit n. 1. A Brahman scholar or learned man. 2. Used as a title of respect for a learned man in India. [Hindi pa , CEO of Stealth Communications (http://www.stealth.net/). "With ENUM support, the IMG 1010 can now provide 'on-the-fly' routing between telephone numbers and SIP addresses allowing telephone calls to move completely within the IP domain." "We have been successfully using the IMG 1010 with its PRI and SS7 interconnections and transcoding capabilities as the foundation for our service-rich, next-generation network solutions we deployed to many of our carrier-type customers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. ," said Gurkan Ozturk, director of sales and marketing at Verscom (http://www.verscom.com/). "Cantata's new software release for the IMG 1010 gives us even more options to enhance our IMS-ready, all-IP, fixed-mobile and multi-media carrier architecture solutions to serve wireless and wireline markets with state-of-the-art, any-to-any IP Voice services." Availability The new version of the IMG 1010 will be available in April. For a complete list of the new enhancements, visit the Cantata website at www.cantata.com/products/img1010/1033_enhancements.cfm For additional information about VoIP Gateways, download Cantata's whitepaper "Paving The Way With Next Generation Media and Signaling VoIP Gateways" at http://www.cantata.com/whitepapers/pdf/paving_the_way.pdf About Cantata Technology Cantata Technology, established in 2006 through the combination of Brooktrout Technology[R] and Excel Switching Corporation, provides enabling communications hardware and software that empowers the creation and delivery of anytime, anywhere IP-based communications applications. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience, Cantata offers the broadest range of products, along with a worldwide network of partners that allows service provider and enterprise customers to develop new products, introduce new services and cost-effectively transition networks to IP. Headquartered in Needham, Mass., Cantata maintains multiple locations worldwide in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.cantata.com. Cantata, Cantata Technology, Brooktrout, Brooktrout Technology, IMG 1010, and the stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. logo with and without the term Cantata Technology are trademarks or registered trademarks of EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) A security system for preventing theft in retail stores that uses disposable label tags or reusable hard tags attached to the merchandise. Group, Inc., the parent company of Cantata Technology, Inc., or its subsidiaries, in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in the above text are the property of their respective owners. |
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