Color Broadband Communications Bases Wholesale VoIP Carrier Division on NexTone Products.NexTone IntelliConnect System Provides the Voice Quality, Flexibility, and Interoperability Required to Offer Carrier-Class Service CHICAGO -- NexTone[R], a leader in session border controllers 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. and scalable solutions for VoIP, multimedia, and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. network interconnects, today announced that Color Broadband Communications, Inc., the largest private fixed wireless provider serving the greater Los Angeles area The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is the agglomeration of urbanized area around the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. There are two "official" definitions—the Los Angeles metropolitan area consisting only of the Los Angeles and Orange , has built its wholesale VoIP carrier division around NexTone's IntelliConnect[TM] System. Color Broadband Communications' Intelligent IP Solutions for businesses provide private last-mile microwave and terrestrial point-to-point connections for high-quality, fully redundant voice and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. that require quick provisioning and mission-critical VoIP services. Color Broadband Communications has deployed the NexTone IntelliConnect System, which includes NexTone's Session Border Controller (SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. ), Multi-protocol Session Exchange (MSX MSX - Microsoft Extended ), and Real-time Session Manager (RSM RSM (in Britain) regimental sergeant major ) to support its retail and wholesale VoIP carrier divisions, which accommodate high-volume inbound in·bound 1 adj. Bound inward; incoming: inbound commuter traffic. Adj. 1. inbound and outbound call centers and carrier VoIP. The service provider also uses NexTone in its network infrastructure to provide business-class VoIP Hosted Centrex services, including IP phone provisioning and integration. As a full-service VoIP provider, Color Broadband Communications leverages NexTone's system to control and route traffic to multiple carriers and manage both cost and network capacity. Color Broadband Communications conducted an extensive study of SBCs and found that the NexTone SBC was best able to provide the flexibility and interoperability required by the retail and wholesale divisions. The NexTone IntelliConnect System has brought Color Broadband Communications a number of benefits. The system's interoperability, for example, means that the service provider has only minimal challenges in connecting to the hardware of its wholesale partners, which may have a variety of equipment and special requirements for call routing. Other benefits of using NexTone products include rate-table flexibility for multi-carrier and multi-tier rating, redundant design, the RSM reporting interface, and NexTone product support and customer service. COMMENTARY Scheron Briones, chief operations officer for Color Broadband Communications - "NexTone brings value to Color Broadband Communications at every level; it has allowed us to create a lower-cost model and a better design with our existing VoIP gateways. The NexTone IntelliConnect System gives us a comprehensive view into our business and has been a key component of our growth and success. Our ability to provision in a timely manner is valuable when we are competing for additional business. And being able to see where capacity is needed to maximize our hardware and circuit infrastructure has saved us time and money." John Longo, vice president of marketing for NexTone - "Color Broadband Communications is an excellent example of how a service provider can use the NexTone IntelliConnect System to extend its business by offering a very competitive carrier-class voice service. NexTone provides the network intelligence required for Color Broadband Communications' success of a mission-critical call center and ensures that its voice traffic can properly handle a high volume of calls with the business-class VoIP quality its customers expect. NexTone's system also gives Color Broadband Communications' the flexibility to scale its VoIP network in the future as the provider's customer base grows." MULTIMEDIA SUPPORT * Session Management and Intelligent Interconnects * Industry Benchmarking * Recent NexTone news About Color Broadband Communications Color Broadband Communications is a multi-disciplinary Internet network agency that specializes in the design, deployment, integration, and operation of broadband VoIP and broadband wireless See wireless broadband. networks. Color Broadband is a certified FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. 214 voice carrier as well as a wireless Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (WISP), implementing redundant last mile strategies and complete hosted 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). and IP PBX (Internet Protocol Private Branch eXchange) A telephone switch that supports voice over IP (VoIP). IP PBXs convert IP phone calls into traditional circuit-switched TDM connections for the PSTN. broadband voice (and data) systems for enterprise clientele. The scalable Color Broadband WISP network can handle a simple office-to-office bridge network, as well as support large remote wireless projects. www.colorbroadband.com. About NexTone NexTone[R] develops intelligent session management and interconnect systems for service providers who want to rapidly expand their reach and accelerate VoIP and multimedia revenues. NexTone's IntelliConnect System provides service providers with visibility and intelligence to exchange, optimize, secure and bill for voice and multimedia sessions flowing across diverse IP and IMS network boundaries. More than 550 service providers and enterprises worldwide have used NexTone's IntelliConnect System to manage technical complexities, optimize business economics, and remove partnership hurdles. NexTone is a recipient of the Maryland Technology Champions Awards for 2006. The company ranks number one in Deloitte's 2006 Technology Fast 50 Program for Maryland, and is one of the Top 50 companies for Deloitte's 2006 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . NexTone is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, with domestic and international offices worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.nextone.com. |
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