Comporium Selects Nuera VoIP Gateway for Primary Line Voice-over-IP Deployment; Comporium's First Broadband Voice Offering for Residential and Business Customers in Rural Market.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2003 Comporium, the 20th largest incumbent local exchange carrier ILEC, short for incumbent local exchange carrier, is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the break up of AT&T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) also known as the "Baby Bells". in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , has selected the Nuera Communications Inc. ORCA Orca - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1986. Similar to Modula-2, but with support for distributed programming using shared data objects, like Linda. A 'graph' data type removes the need for pointers. Version for the Amoeba OS, comes with Amoeba. (R) RDT-8g for its first Voice-over-IP (VoIP) primary line deployment. Comporium, based in Rock Hill, S.C., provides local and long-distance voice services, cable TV and Internet services, and can now deliver voice services on a more efficient, converged network The integration of the telephone system with IP-based data networks. See softswitch. (networking) converged network - A single network that can carry voice, video and data. . The RDT-8g VoIP gateway connects Comporium's broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. equipment to its telephone switches and the public switched telephone network. "The RDT-8g has enabled us to use our existing circuit-switched core network as we cost-effectively deploy robust IP voice services at the edge of the network. As a result, the network we are building today will seamlessly migrate into the inevitable, packet-switched, IP core," said Dan Smith, vice president of engineering and planning, Comporium. "With Quality of Service fully a reality in our managed IP network, Nuera's technology allows us to seamlessly bundle our customers' voice and data traffic on a single IP pipe. Further, because the RDT-8g is standards-based and interoperates with a variety of Integrated Access Devices and Multimedia Terminal Adapters, it opens up all kinds of delivery possibilities." The RDT-8, installed by service providers around the world, provides advanced voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. capabilities and high system availability required for primary and secondary line services. Comporium is able to leverage its existing Class 5 infrastructure, converge its voice and data network, and still be able to offer high-quality voice services. The RDT-8 provides the same user experience as traditional voice networks because of its unique voice processing capabilities of lost packet recovery, jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle management and echo cancellation The elimination of an echo in a two-way voice transmission. Echo is created in the telephone company's central office switch when two-wire lines from the customer are converted to four-wire lines for backbone trunks. . "Nuera's main goal is to help service providers, like Comporium, grow their businesses by cost-effectively increasing services," said Joe Matibag, director of marketing, Nuera. "We enable service providers to leverage their current infrastructure, expand service areas, and achieve profitable revenue growth." About Nuera Nuera Communications Inc. is a leading provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) infrastructure solutions that work over any medium (cable, wireless, copper and fiber). Nuera stands out as a leader in the broadband telephony See VoIP. market and helps define industry standards. The company's Open, Reliable Communications Architecture (ORCA(R)) product portfolio helps carriers worldwide migrate from legacy networks to next-generation VoIP networks. Nuera continually wins awards for its superior products and services and drives the industry towards the adoption of interoperability and open, standards-based platforms. For more information, please visit www.nuera.com. About Comporium The Comporium group of companies, based in Rock Hill, S.C., provides a full spectrum of telecommunications and related services, including local telephone, long distance, wireless, cable TV, Internet, security, data services and directory publishing to residential and commercial customers. Please visit www.comporium.com for more information. |
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