Nuera Announces Enhancements to ORCA GX-21 Carrier-Class VoIP Gateway at ComNet 2000; Interoperable Media Gateway to Deliver Advanced IP Telephony Performance.Business Editors ComNet 2000, Booth No. 626 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000 Nuera Communications Inc., a top-rated provider of 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. solutions, will unveil enhancements to its carrier-class gateway, 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. (Open, Reliable Communications Architecture), as ComNet 2000 opens today in Washington D.C. Being demonstrated throughout the conference and exposition in Booth No. 626, ORCA's new features enable carriers to build high performance, scalable IP telephony networks that can accelerate the convergence of voice and data onto a single network. ORCA gives carriers flexible, reliable solutions, enabling them to scale their networks and remain competitive in the marketplace,&uot; said William Ingram, president and chief executive officer of Nuera. &uot;Our customers' needs and goals were paramount while developing enhancements for ORCA.&uot; ORCA was originally created in response to carriers' need for high quality voice transport and interoperability of IP telephony equipment. Nuera's packet-voice gateway integrates voice over frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. (VoFR) and voice over IP (VoIP). Frame relay allows efficiency with quality and low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as for WAN transport, while voice over IP allows for scalable and ubiquitous networks with powerful enhanced services. The integration of the two provides carriers the ability to deliver new services over worldwide communications infrastructure. Nuera also announced today that ORCA is designed to comply with two of the industry's emergent VoIP telephony interoperability protocols -- Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol ) and 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). ORCA's support for MGCP allows for call setup and tear down through a softswitch, adding interoperability functions to the GX-21. Carriers that deploy ORCA are not only able to seamlessly integrate IP telephony into their networks, but can now also offer a suite of enhanced services including intelligent call routing and interface to MGCP- and SIP-based servers, which add clearinghouse, billing and unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. applications capabilities. While H.323 received praise when it was initially introduced to the market, MGCP and SIP have come to be two of the forefront drivers of VoIP interoperability. Ingram believes the industry will readily adopt these more stable protocols to deploy reliable, high-capacity IP networks worldwide. &uot;There is already widespread acceptance of MGCP and SIP among major players. These protocols lead voice over IP interoperability to the next level,&uot; he explained. MGCP- and SIP-based interoperability will be showcased at ComNet in a Voice over IP Interoperability Pavilion (Booth No. 4102) organized by Nuera and co-sponsored by ComNet 2000, MIER MIER Malaysian Institute of Economic Research Communications and pulver.com. Show attendees who visit the Pavilion will see demonstrations of MGCP- and SIP-based interoperability between vendors of media gateways, media gateway controllers, enhanced service applications, IP PBXs, SIP telephones, clearinghouse software and an Internet service provider/application service provider. MIER Communications will provide systems integration and build the IP backbone at the Pavilion. ORCA will be featured at the Interoperability Pavilion, as well as at Nuera's dedicated booth (Hall B, No. 626). About Nuera Nuera Communications develops top-rated packet-voice telephony systems and technology for carrier, corporate and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers. More than 35,000 Nuera voice/fax networks are in operation in over 80 carrier networks worldwide. Featuring standards-based solutions with proprietary enhancements to improve quality, bandwidth utilization and delay in packet networks, Nuera's products have received 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. magazine's Hot Product award for top quality voice over frame relay, BCR BCR B Cell Receptor BCR Business Communications Review (magazine) BCR Banca Comerciala Romana (Romanian bank) BCR Breakpoint Cluster Region BCR Benefit/Cost Ratio BCR Bay City Rollers magazine's Best in Test award for IP telephony gateways in test reports published in 1998 and 1999, and both Editors' Choice and Product of the Year awards from Internet Telephony and Computer Telephony magazines. Nuera Communications, a founding member of the International Softswitch Consortium and co-founder of the Voice Over IP Forum, is a privately held, venture-funded company headquartered in San Diego, with sales and development operations in Asia, the Americas and Europe. Additional information can be found on Nuera's Web site at http://www.nuera.com |
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