DELTA Deploys GENBAND to Deliver EuroDOCSIS VoIP in the Netherlands; GENBAND's European Sales and Integration Partner Imtech Telecom Provides Integration and Turn Up Services for DELTA NV.PLANO, Texas Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. According to the 2000 U.S. -- GENBAND Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure products enabling converged services, announced today the company's G6(R) Universal Media Gateway has been deployed for cable telephony See cable telephone. services in the province of Zeeland by DELTA NV, a leading Dutch Cable Operator. Imtech Telecom provided sales and integration of the G6 where it is providing full residential telecommunication service over an existing cable network through a EuroDOCSIS 2.0, PacketCable, and MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol architecture. "We have been very pleased with the G6 deployment and its seamless interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. with the Nortel DMS-100 and cable infrastructure," said Jan Dees, manager of cable networks at DELTA NV. "Voice quality and reliability is excellent, and as a result, we are able to bundle an integrated voice, video, and data service offering that immediately provides us differentiation and establishes a platform for future enhanced softswitched-based service." GENBAND's G6 is used to provide derived voice via a redundant STM-1 connection to a Nortel DMS-100 telephony-switch. The G6 connects to the HFC-network through a CMTS (Cable Modem Termination System) A computerized device that enables cable modems to send and receive packets over the Internet. It inserts IP packets from the Internet into MPEG frames and transmits them to the cable modems via an RF signal. from BigBand (Cuda 12000). The G6 converts legacy voice to Voice Over IP with the Nortel DMS-100 providing Class 5 features. The packet voice is passed over the HFC network (Hybrid Fiber-Coax network) A communications network (typically a cable TV network) that uses a combination of optical fibers and coaxial cable. The fiber provides the high-speed backbone, and the coax is used to connect end users to the backbone. to the subscriber where an EMTA See E-MTA. from Scientific Atlanta (Webstar 2203) provides the POTS gates. "GENBAND is pleased to be working closely with DELTA NV for the delivery of their cable voice services," said Joe Parola, vice president of cable sales at GENBAND. "With our close partner Imtech, we have been able to provide a reliable VoIP solution that is both cost effective for DELTA NV and lays the foundation for further converged service differentiation. We look forward to working with DELTA NV to ensure that they maximize their revenue per users in the most economical fashion possible." About DELTA NV DELTA NV is the fourth largest utility company in the Netherlands and it is based in Middelburg. DELTA NV is a national player in the wholesale energy trading markets and a supplier to large commercial customers, and has strong presence in the industrial water market (through the Evides joint venture). DELTA has five core business segments and production capacity with diversified resources that vary from gas and coal to wind power, solar, nuclear and biomass. From its inception, DELTA NV supplied gas and water via its own network to the province of Zeeland and Southwest Brabant in the Netherlands. As a result of utility privatizations This list of privatizations provides links to notable and/or major privatizations. See also: Privatization. Argentina
About Imtech Telecom Imtech Telecom is headquartered in The Netherlands, with offices in the UK, Sweden, Belgium and Germany. The company is a subsidiary of Imtech N.V., a European technical services provider in the field of electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. , ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. and mechanical engineering. With approximately 14,500 employees, Imtech realizes annual revenues of 2,4 billion Euro. Imtech holds strong positions in the buildings, industry, marine, infrastructure and telecoms markets in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK and is also active in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. . Imtech shares are listed on the Euronext Stock Exchange (Amsterdam), where Imtech is included in the Amsterdam SmallCap Index (AScX) and the Next 150 index. www.imtech.nl About GENBAND(TM) GENBAND(TM) develops, manufactures and markets IMS-based application, signaling and media gateway communication infrastructure products for a diverse set of service providers worldwide. GENBAND's products and solutions enable rapid deployment of new multimedia services, while at the same time, provide a foundation to transition legacy networks to next generation networks. GENBAND is headquartered in Plano, Texas with research and development facilities in Austin and Plano, Texas. Additional information is available at www.genband.com. |
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