Nuera Communications Announces INSTA--TM-- Solutions Program to Drive Carrier Deployment of New Services.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000 Program Based On Open Standards-Based Interoperability to Accelerate Deployment of Profitable New Services for Service Providers Addressing Wholesale, Enterprise and Residential Markets Nuera Communications Inc. Monday launched its comprehensive Interoperability-driven Strategic Alliance (INSTA INSTA Interstate INSTA Instruments Authorized (TM)) Solutions program to coordinate and promote efforts of leading equipment and application developers working closely with Nuera to enable carriers worldwide to deliver services based on advanced open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced . The program's goal is to allow carriers to deliver basic and enhanced telephony services based on INSTA partners and featuring elements of Nuera's 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. (R)) products. A key advantage of this program is that the basis for communication between end devices, carrier infrastructure equipment, applications and call control is based on open standards such as MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol , OSP (Online Service Provider) See online service. OSP - Optical Signal Processor and SIP, rather than proprietary implementations. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Pete Dailey, Frost & Sullivan's managing partner for network convergence, "In an industry where time to market makes all the difference in customer acquisition, Nuera INSTA gives carriers an instant competitive advantage, which has a direct correlation Noun 1. direct correlation - a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1 positive correlation to the bottom line. An important aspect of Nuera's announcement is the company's unique commitment to extensively testing interoperability with its partners' products and to understanding how its products interoperate with partners. Nuera has already overcome many of the challenges carriers would otherwise encounter on testing in their own labs. Carriers who take advantage of these alliances can expect to save critical time and headaches on their way to deploying value-added services into residential and business markets." Andy Voss, Nuera's vice president of strategy and business development, noted, "By inviting market and technical leaders to participate in the INSTA Solutions program, and by working closely with them to achieve a high level of interoperability, functionality and performance with our combined solutions, we plan to enable our mutual customers to achieve faster and more profitable growth in services revenue from deployment of open standards-based, IP-based telephony applications." Members of the INSTA program include developers of 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. and calling card service platforms, class 4 and class 5 softswitches, server-based IP-Centrex systems, billing software, and platform vendors for carrier infrastructure, enterprise and residential gateways. Nuera intends to grow the program quickly as new partners applications and equipment is determined to be fully interoperable and capable of meeting carrier expectations. Initial members of the INSTA program are: Telephony Experts (www.telephonyexperts.com): Since 1998 Telephony Experts and Nuera have been partnering on the development of Nuera compatible enhanced services and real-time billing solutions for next-generation networks. Telephony Experts applications are globally deployed and built on mature, field proven technology and include management interfaces for PC-based browsers, WAP phones and Palm Computing(R) platforms. As a recognized leader in 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. , Telephony Experts has embraced the SIP standard to further the development of advanced subscriber applications and multiple billing models. IS Associates Inc. (www.isassoc.com): TeleCount IP, from IS Associates, is a comprehensive billing and call accounting package for Nuera ORCA SSC SSC Secondary School Certificate SSC Standard Systems Center (USAF) SSC State Services Commission (New Zealand) SSC Swedish Space Corporation SSC Salem State College (Massachusetts) Softswitch environments as well as the Nuera Access Plus F50, F120, F200, F50ip, F200ip and F200SIP gateways. TeleCount IP and TeleCountIP Enterprise provide several exciting additions to Nuera based networks including: Customer Billing, Call Accounting, Toll Fraud, Traffic Analysis, and Bill Verification. dynamicsoft (www.dynamicsoft.com): dynamicsoft's SIP Proxy (Session Initiation Protocol proxy) A server in a SIP-based IP telephony environment. It is required in large companies with numerous telephone numbers or when the Internet is the long distance transport. Server provides a full range of essential call routing functions within SIP networks, including routing calls to 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. gateways for traffic load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them . The latest version, 5.0, features scalability and reliability enhancements that ensure carrier-grade performance. The proxy server Also called a "proxy," it is a computer system or router that breaks the connection between sender and receiver. Functioning as a relay between client and server, proxy servers are used to help prevent an attacker from invading the private network. can generate billing-related transactions that can be used by third-party billing intermediation partners. Carrier-class scalability is ensured via load-balancing and SRV record An SRV record or Service record is a category of data in the Internet Domain Name System specifying information on available services. It is defined in RFC 2782. Newer internet protocols such as SIP and XMPP often require SRV support from clients. support that eliminate network bottlenecks and single points of failure. APEX Voice Communications (www.apexvoice.com): APEX manufactures Enhanced Services and Billing solutions for service providers worldwide on traditional and IP-based Next Generation networks. Products include the APEX Media Server with a drag-and-drop service creation environment for IP-based Enhanced Services, the APEX Prepaid System, Billing System, Messaging System Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent , Wireless E-Mail and Switch Manager. TransNexus Inc. (www.transnexus.com): TransNexus offers standards-based solutions and technology for real-time authorization, routing, clearing and settlement of voice/fax communications among VoIP carriers and service providers. All TransNexus' clearinghouse solutions -- ClearIP(SM) Clearinghouse Solution, OSPNexus(TM) Server - Carrier Edition and OSP Toolkit(TM)-- are based on the open, international standard, the Open Settlement Protocol (OSP). TransNexus' clearinghouse solutions and products are ideal for wholesale IP Carriers and IP Backbone Providers wishing to become a VoIP clearinghouse and offer their VoIP service provider customers inter-carrier clearing and settlement of VoIP traffic as a value-added service. Simplified (www.simpletel.com): As a Nuera INSTA Solutions Partner, Simplified is in the position to offer the most comprehensive converged services platform in the industry. The Simplified Infrastructure Management System blends the power and scalability of the Nuera ORCA platform with the flexibility, price performance and small footprint of new IP-based architectures. Simplified's Web-based software suite gives service providers real-time control Real-time control is a popular term for a certain class of digital controllers. For effective digital control, it is critical that sample time be constant. Real-time control achieves nearly constant sample time. See also
IPeria (www.iperia.com): The IPeria Service Node provides messaging and communications applications such as voicemail, e-mail, fax, paging, event notification Event notification is a term used in conjunction with communications software for linking applications that generate small messages (the "events") to applications that monitor the associated conditions and may take actions triggered by events. , and message filtering that are provisioned and controlled by subscribers using IPeria's e@ccount personalized communications portal. These applications enable service providers to add value-added services enabling them to differentiate themselves and generate incremental service revenue. iSoftel (www.isoftel.com): iSoftel offers enhanced turnkey carrier solutions to a variety of service providers, including traditional telephone companies, Internet telephony service providers (communications) Internet Telephony Service Providers - (ITSP) Companies providing IP Telephony. , and competitive and incumbent local carriers (CLECs) throughout the world. When working with the Nuera ORCA systems iSoftel can provide calling card and billing solutions with settlement and authorization on a unified platform. iSoftel customer references include Singapore Telecom, ST Sunpage, Pacific Internet, I2U, Phoenix Communications, Malaysia Telecom, Celcom Malaysia, Philcom, Natrindo, Wherever.net and Asia Access Telecom. NeTrue (www.netrue.com): NeTrue Communications Inc. (NTU NTU - Network Termination Unit .U: CDNX CDNX See Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). ) is a publicly traded California-based IP telephony solutions provider with core technical competencies in QoS management, network management and VoIP clearinghouse technology. NeTrue IPT IPT - IP Telephony BackOffice(TM) and NeTrueQoS provide operation and management support for Nuera customers. NeTrue Vipersat Networks Division develops and markets satellite transmission technology to local and international markets. NeTrue's Commsent Solutions provides traffic management; clearinghouse and routing services to a global network of more than 85 communications providers. Pingtel (www.pingtel.com): Pingtel powers a voice services and applications renaissance with the world's first intelligent Java voice-over-IP telephone for service providers and enterprises. As the delivery platform for next-generation hosted PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). services (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 IP PBX (Internet Protocol Private Branch eXchange) A telephone switch that supports voice over IP (VoIP). IP PBXs convert IP phone calls into traditional circuit-switched TDM connections for the PSTN. systems, it not only makes today's voice features much easier to use, but enables a whole new collection of valuable, personalized voice services and applications. The Pingtel solutions are open standards based and use the SIP protocol for interoperating with Nuera equipment and complement the central office termination of the ORCA platform. TopLayer (www.toplayer.com): TopLayer develops networking devices that deliver unmatched security against attacks and intrusions while managing traffic flows to give users the highest business value from their networks. Top Layer Networks' AppSwitch family of products extract and use detailed information from all seven layers of the International Standards Organization's OSI model Following is a diagram and description of all the layers in the ISO standard for communications. For more on the purpose of this model, see OSI. For comparisons between the OSI model and other protocol stacks, see TCP/IP, NetWare, ATM, SNA and SS7. . Using the AppSwitch ability to fully identify and control both HTTP-based and RTP-based traffic, the solution can provide complete QoS control for signaling and media streams. Syndeo (www.syndeo.com): Syndeo provides softswitch and server-side software that helps eBusinesses create Web applications that encourage communication and enhance relationships with partners, suppliers, clients, and employees. When controlling the ORCA GX Gateways, the Broadband Services System provides full Class-5 feature set via an IP infrastructure. The Syndeo Collaboration Suite is based on Enterprise JavaBeans technology and ships with a series of pre-built data objects and business logic components for rapid assembly and deployment of interactive, data-driven Web applications. About Nuera INSTA Solutions Program: Nuera INSTA brings together best-of-breed solutions for deployment to and through service providers worldwide into carrier, enterprise and residential markets. For participating partners, Nuera provides resources, including: -- advanced development tools such as the Nuera SIP-API applications platform -- extensive interoperability testing facilities on-site and expertise to support testing at customer sites and in industry bakeoffs -- co-marketing programs such as Nuera's Interconnect Program and trade shows worldwide -- co-selling through a worldwide sales and support force -- inclusion in Nuera's HQ-based Interoperability Showcase Additional program information is available at www.nuera.com/partners or by contacting Nuera via email at partners@nuera.com. About Nuera Nuera Communications Inc., a top-rated voice-over-Internet-Protocol infrastructure provider, develops packet-voice telephony solutions for carriers worldwide. The company's Open, Reliable Communications Architecture (ORCA(R)) enables seamless voice traffic transport between the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and IP-based packet networks. Nuera's SSC Softswitch, a software-based packet voice switch, allows companies to migrate from traditional switching into a broadband environment. Nuera is driving the adoption of interoperability standards such as MGCP and SIP and is a founding member of the International Softswitch Consortium. Nuera is a privately held, venture-funded company with headquarters in San Diego, with sales and development operations in Asia, the Americas and Europe. |
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