Cox Communications Selects Nuera for Nationwide VoIP Deployment.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2004 Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :COX), one of the largest multiservice broadband communications 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. , has awarded a multiyear contract to Nuera Communications Inc. to provide media gateways for Cox's nationwide 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) service deployments. Broadband network operators such as cable multiple system operators (MSOs) are aggressively offering telephone services to stimulate growth, increase profits and reduce customer churn. VoIP is a key enabling technology in the PacketCable(TM) standards, which allow cable operators to offer telephone services throughout their networks. "The mulitvendor, distributed and security characteristics of the PacketCable architecture will enable us to easily deliver our Cox Digital Telephone(TM) service offering in our markets," said Jay Rolls, Cox's vice president of Telephone and Data Engineering. "However, we must also deliver the high quality and outstanding performance that the market has come to expect from Cox Digital Telephone. We chose Nuera because they offer media gateways with the scalability and reliability that enable us to meet and exceed our subscribers' expectations. In addition, Nuera's ability to work with the other vendors in our network gives us the confidence to aggressively execute our deployment plans." "This contract is a significant milestone for both Nuera and the cable industry," said Bill Ingram Bill Ingram was a college football head coach at California, Indiana, and Navy. From 1923 to 1925, he guided Indiana to a 10-12-1 record. At Navy he posted a 32-13-4 record. These totals included his 1926 team, which finished with a 9-0-1 record. , president and chief executive officer, Nuera Communications. "This will be a major VoIP deployment in 2004, and the cooperation between Cox, Nuera and the other vendors creates a model of industry leading efforts which will define the future of cable VoIP. We expect to deliver similar solutions to other cable MSOs and broadband network operators throughout the world as they launch and grow their telephone service offerings." Cox currently uses the Nuera BTX (Balanced Technology EXtended) A motherboard design from Intel introduced in 2004 that supersedes the ATX. Unlike the ATX, the placement of all chip sockets in the BTX is defined in order to provide sufficient air flow over the processor and display adapter. media gateways in the mulitvendor PacketCable network that provides digital telephone service to their customers in Roanoke, Va. Cox plans to deploy additional Nuera BTX media gateways as they launch telephone services in markets throughout 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. . 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). The Open, Reliable Communications Architecture (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. ) product portfolio helps carriers and cable operators worldwide migrate from legacy networks to next-generation VoIP networks. Nuera stands out as a leader in the broadband telephony market and helps define industry standards. Information about Nuera products and services can be found at: www.nuera.com. |
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