CommWorks, Kagoor Networks Team To Address VoIP Security, Quality Issues.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROLLING MEADOWS Rolling Meadows, city (1990 pop. 22,591), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1955. There is research and development and the manufacture of office supplies and electronic components. , Ill. & SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2003 Joint Product Solution Enhances Options for Telecommunications Service Providers and Their Enterprise Customers CommWorks, a 3Com Company (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ), and Kagoor Networks(TM) Inc. announced today they are collaborating on solutions to address issues critical to the broad deployment of 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) and other IP-based services. The companies have successfully concluded testing of Kagoor's VoiceFlow(TM) VoIP border control platform with key elements of the CommWorks(R) IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. system, giving service providers new options for Network Address Translation (NAT (Network Address Translation) An IETF standard that allows an organization to present itself to the Internet with far fewer IP addresses than there are nodes on its internal network. ) and firewall traversal as they offer VoIP, 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 other IP-based managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality to their business customers. CommWorks and Kagoor Networks are working together to market the combined solution to service providers. Kagoor Networks is a leading provider of VoIP border control applications that address security, NAT, firewall, Quality of Service and Service Level Agreement assurance, bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager. , call prioritization and admission control, and remote IP endpoint management in VoIP networks. These issues are increasingly important to service providers as they offer new IP-based services to enterprises customers. Some enterprise firewalls block VoIP media streams. Kagoor's VoiceFlow platform solves this problem by providing NAT translation and securely traversing the firewall. The testing involved Kagoor's VoiceFlow 1000 VoIP demarcation functionality in both enterprise CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment and carrier network-hosted configurations and CommWorks equipment for IP telephony applications, including the Total Control(R) 1000 Media Gateway and elements of the CommWorks Softswitch. Products were tested using both the H.323 communications protocol and the 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). The CommWorks 4205 Protocol Mediator facilitated the completion of calls between H.323 and SIP networks. A service provider could use the combined technology from CommWorks and Kagoor to deliver basic or enhanced voice services to enterprise customers. The service provider would deploy the Total Control(R) 1000 Media Gateway for connectivity between the circuit-switched Public Switched Telephone Network (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. ) and the packet-switched IP network, as well as elements of the CommWorks Softswitch for call control, signaling and application and service creation. Kagoor's VoiceFlow platform would reside at either the edge of the service provider's network or at the enterprise customer's premise, allowing IP phone users to utilize a wide range of business calling features while securely traversing NAT and firewall boundaries. Features successfully tested by CommWorks and Kagoor included call hold, call transfer, conference calling, forward to voice mail, voice mail retrieval, forward to destination number on no answer or busy, and two-stage and three-stage dialing using the CommWorks 8251 Interactive Voice Response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ) Server. CommWorks IP telephony equipment has carried more than 14.5 billion minutes of voice traffic for service providers around the world since the system was first deployed in April 2000, and is now running at a rate of approximately 985 million minutes of traffic per month. CommWorks was recently named "VoIP Equipment Company of the Year" by the respected telecom industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. (Source: Frost & Sullivan 2003 Excellence in Information and Communication Technology Awards, January 15, 2003) Kagoor Networks is a member of the CommWorks Community of Partners, a program that brings together a broad cross-section of equipment providers in the telecommunications, computer and network service provider industries. Member collaborate to put "best of breed" technologies and solutions in the hands of customers. About Kagoor Networks Kagoor Networks, a leader in VoIP Border Control solutions, is committed to helping service providers and enterprises overcome the technical roadblocks, typically found at IP/VoIP network borders, that have inhibited the widespread commercial deployment of VoIP services. Kagoor's award winning VoiceFlow(TM) product series addresses the issues of security, quality, bandwidth and control with regard to VoIP networking and is a scalable solution consisting of economical, enterprise CPE to high capacity, carrier grade equipment. Founded in early 2000, Kagoor is a private company headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , with an R&D facility in Herzeliya, Israel. More information is available at www.kagoor.com. About CommWorks CommWorks, a 3Com Company, supplies network service providers around the world with access infrastructures and IP services platforms that open new business opportunities and help them establish unique positions in a competitive marketplace. With flexible multi-service hardware platforms and modular software components, the comprehensive CommWorks architecture makes it possible for service providers to integrate their existing infrastructures with innovative technologies to deliver an array of next-generation IP-based enhanced services to their customers. For further information, visit www.commworks.com. About 3Com Corporation 3Com is a tier-one provider of innovative, practical and high-value networking products for enterprises of all sizes and public sector organizations. 3Com is also a leader in providing Internet protocol (IP) service platforms and access infrastructure for network service providers. For further information, please visit www.3com.com, or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox. 3Com, CommWorks and Total Control are registered trademarks and the CommWorks logo is a trademark of 3Com Corporation. VoiceFlow is a trademark of Kagoor Networks, Inc. |
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