Choice One Selects General Bandwidth for Network-wide Roll-out of Packet Voice Services; Choice One Plans to Deploy G6 Access Media Gateway Across 18 Markets in 2005 and 2006.AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas -- General Bandwidth, a leading Voice over IP equipment manufacturer enabling rapid deployment and new service revenue generation over broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , today announced that Choice One Communications Choice One Communications is a Rochester, New York-based CLEC providing Telecommunications services to commercial entities. The company was founded in 1998 as an "alternative to the incumbent local phone carriers". Inc., an integrated communications provider offering facilities-based voice and data telecommunications service In telecommunication, the term telecommunications service has the following meanings: 1. Any service provided by a telecommunication provider. 2. to small and medium-sized Me´di`um-sized` a. 1. Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man s>. Adj. 1. medium-sized - intermediate in size medium-size, moderate-size, moderate-sized businesses, has selected the G6(R) Access Media Gateway (MG) for a network-wide packet voice deployment across 18 markets, starting in 2005. "Choice One is committed to rapidly serving the service growth needs of our current clients," said Bob Bailey, senior vice president of technology for Choice One Communications. "General Bandwidth's G6 Universal Media Gateway Platform provides not only the scalability How much a system can be expanded. See scalable. scalability - How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it and capacity to best meet our service growth needs but provides a universal gateway solution that enables simultaneous support for derived Class (programming) derived class - (Or "subclass") In object-oriented programming, a class that is derived from a base class by inheritance. The derived class contains all the features of the base class, but may have new features added or redefine existing features. 5 and next generation softswitch-based services, simplifying the transition of clients to the new architecture." Initially deployed in both the Pittsburgh and Milwaukee markets with plans to expand to four additional markets in early 2005, Choice One has leveraged the pre-provisioning capabilities available within the G6 platform to migrate integrated voice and data services for about 8,000 customer connections in three one-night conversions. "We are extremely pleased to be partnering with Choice One as they move toward accelerating their deployment of packet voice services to their commercial customers," said Charles Vogt, president and chief executive officer of General Bandwidth. "With packet voice services representing one of the largest revenue growth opportunities for today's leading competitive carriers, General Bandwidth continues to be the leading voice gateway for carriers seeking to generate revenue quickly." About Choice One Communications Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., Choice One Communications, Inc. is a leading integrated communications provider offering voice and data services including Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the solutions, to businesses in 29 metropolitan areas (markets) across 12 Northeast and Midwest states. For further information about Choice One, visit our Web site at www.choiceonecom.com or contact us at 1-888-832-5800. About The G6 Universal Media Gateway Platform The G6 Universal Media Gateway Platform is the architectural basis for the multiple media gateway products offered by General Bandwidth. The G6 platform is a true carrier class VoIP services platform with the capability to simultaneously support multiple service architectures including legacy Class 5 switches, SIP-based feature servers, and next generation softswitches. The platform supports a variety of packet and 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. interfaces, scaling from a few hundred customers to over 26,000 in a single chassis Pronounced "chah-see," it is a physical structure that holds everything or that everything is attached to. A computer's cabinet is often called the chassis. . The company markets the following media gateway products globally:
G6 Access MG Providing Class 5 services over VoIP and AAL1/AAL2
broadband networks using existing GR-303, TR-08,
V5.2, or T1/E1 CAS interfaces; extending the life of
the legacy switching network.
G6 Reverse MG Proven interoperable with the leading wireline and
cable based softswitches via MGCP or H.248, the G6
Reverse MG enables new IP based features on legacy
remote terminals by enabling their call control to be
softswitch-based. The product is applicable to most
GR-303, TR-08, and V5.x remote terminals.
G6 Trunking MG Proven interoperable with the leading wireline and
cable-based softswitches, the G6 Trunking MG provides
circuit-to-packet media conversion using MGCP, H.248,
or SIP softswitch call control. The product is one of
only a few media gateways awarded PacketCable(TM)
Media Gateway qualification for the cable network
infrastructure. The product also provides SIP to PRI
interworking for hosted IP communications services.
G6 Universal MG The industry's first universal media gateway serving
the ILEC/PTT, CLEC, and MSO networks, The G6
Universal MG provides simultaneous support for all
access, reverse and trunking media gateway
applications on a single G6 chassis. The product
delivers seamless, risk-free migration to next
generation services to address evolving broadband and
voice service needs. The consolidation and management
of voice services through a single G6 significantly
reduces capital and operational expenses.
About General Bandwidth General Bandwidth is a leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions spanning more than 40 service providers worldwide. General Bandwidth delivers broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). solutions addressing a full range of applications, including residential and business access, trunking See port aggregation. and enhanced VoIP solutions. With eight patents issued and ten pending, General Bandwidth's flagship G6 Universal Media Gateway and network management system are OSMINE (Operations Systems Modification of Intelligent Network Elements) A system from Telcordia for verifying compatibility with Telcordia-designed operating systems. , RUS, PacketCable(TM), NEBS-3 and TL 9000 certified See certification. and deployed in RBOCs, CLECs, RLECs and Cable service provider networks worldwide. General Bandwidth was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Additional information on General Bandwidth is available at www.genband.com. Trademark notes: G6 and General Bandwidth are registered trademarks of General Bandwidth Inc. |
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