Touchstone Systems Expands NexTone Deployment to Support Rapidly Growing Worldwide Voice Termination Service; NexTone Provides Best VoIP Platform for Product Stability, Sales and Technical Support, and Investment.GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- NexTone Communications(R), the leader in intelligent and scalable session management solutions that extend the reach and quality of VoIP and other digital media, today announced that Touchstone touchstone Black, silica-containing stone used in assaying to determine the purity of gold and silver. The metal to be assayed is rubbed on the touchstone, and then a sample of metal of known purity is rubbed on the stone right next to it. Systems, Inc., a provider of high-quality voice termination session management service worldwide, has expanded the deployment of NexTone's Multiprotocol Session Controller (MSC (1) (MSC.Software Corporation, Santa Ana, CA, www.mscsoftware.com) Founded in 1963 by Richard H. MacNeal and Robert G. Schwendler, MSC is the world's largest provider of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) strategies, simulation software and services. ) as the core of the company's switching network. Touchstone's products and services are specifically designed for the VoIP termination wholesale market with Tier 1 and Tier 2 carriers. With its technical competence technical competence, n the ability of the practitioner, during the treatment phase of dental care and with respect to those procedures combining psychomotor and cognitive skills, consistently to provide services at a professionally acceptable level. , reliability in the wholesale market, and responsiveness to its carrier customers, Touchstone terminates in excess of 50 million minutes of VoIP termination globally per month. E[acute accent acute accent n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. ]"As a business that provides voice termination session management service to carriers around the world, we base our service on quality; our network needs to be extremely reliable and scalable to support the growth we are seeing in the VoIP market globally," said Mark Baker, chief executive officer and chairman for Touchstone Systems, Inc. "To build upon that reputation of quality, Touchstone continues to select NexTone for our network expansion based on the outstanding performance and stability of its MSC, its responsiveness with technical support, and because it is the best value for our money." E[acute accent]"NexTone's MSC continues to perform very well in all areas, which allows us to meet both our technical and business needs. We recommend NexTone's products wholeheartedly whole·heart·ed adj. Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm: wholehearted approval. whole to any carrier for their session management needs," said Jerry Lambert Jerry Lambert can refer to more than one person:
The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for Touchstone Systems, Inc. E[acute accent]"Touchstone is one of the fastest-growing VoIP providers worldwide and has the technical expertise and industry reputation to provide VoIP termination to the largest carriers and network companies in the world. The NexTone MSC gives Touchstone the horsepower needed to scale its network and ensure continued service quality to the industry's most demanding Tier 1 carriers," said Dan Dearing, vice president of marketing for NexTone. "Not only is Touchstone a repeat customer, but they are also a highly reliable partner with NexTone as we expand our global community of carrier customers." E[acute accent]The NexTone MSC provides session management and control for Touchstone's core switching. Touchstone has deployed the NexTone MSC since early 2004 and has now expanded to support 150 million minutes per month on existing platforms. E[acute accent]The NexTone MSC E[acute accent]The NexTone Multiprotocol Session Controller combines programmable routing, enhanced traffic management, and centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. collection of call detail records to quickly and efficiently deliver real-time IP services, such as voice and video. The comprehensive solution alleviates the challenges of deploying and managing multiple network elements by providing the functionalities of a 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, H.323 Gatekeeper An H.323 Gatekeeper serves the purpose of Call Admission Control and translation services from E.164 IDs (commonly a phone number) to IP addresses in an H.323 telephony network. Gatekeepers can be combined with a gateway function to proxy H. , policy-based call routing to handle call origination Call Origination, also known as voice origination, refers to the collecting of the calls initiated by a calling party on a telephone exchange of PSTN, and handing off the calls to a VoIP endpoint or to another exchange or telephone company for completion to a called party. and termination, and enhanced traffic management with hierarchical call admission control policies. The NexTone MSC provides programmable routing intelligence and an ENUM client for maximum network scale and service reach. Carriers can develop sophisticated routing policies (e.g., permissive dialing In North America, permissive dialing is the ability to make phone calls in an area subject to a newly introduced area code using both the new and preexisting dialing methods. , time-of-day routing, priority routing and route hunting) using the digit analysis and call treatment specified within the MSC's calling plans. E[acute accent]NexTone's Session Management Products E[acute accent]NexTone's session management products provide IP networks with a comprehensive facility to manage all aspects of network interconnects for real-time services, including subscriber policies, service connectivity, and traffic management. Carriers and enterprises use the NexTone MSC to intelligently interconnect "islands of VoIP". NexTone's iVMS simplifies the provisioning and management of large-scale VoIP networks and provides a common end-to-end view of real-time IP interconnects, enabling operational teams to dynamically control, route, and manage real-time IP traffic as it enters and leaves their networks. E[acute accent]Touchstone's engineers have also participated in NexTone University for training on managing large-scale VoIP networks. Touchstone operations personnel from Texas and India completed NexTone University training in May 2005 as a part of their ongoing commitment to quality service delivery, and growing relationship with NexTone to provide Touchstone's core switching platform. E[acute accent]About Touchstone Systems, Inc. E[acute accent]Touchstone Systems, Inc. supplies high quality, high capacity VoIP termination to Tier 1 and Tier 2 customers around the world. Touchstone's commitment to service and reliability has established it as a leader in VoIP product delivery with carrier customers in the 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. , Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Touchstone's new Flex-Elect product gives customers full LCR See least cost routing. control of a wide variety of high capacity Tier 1 routes via a single service agreement. This exciting new product has already received wide acceptance since the product launch in March. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. with network access to One Wilshire and 60 Hudson from their clustered switching facility at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas. To learn more about Touchstone, visit our website at www.tstoneinc.com. E[acute accent]About NexTone Communications E[acute accent]NexTone Communications develops carrier-grade products for delivering scalable control of real-time IP services, such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and other digital media. NexTone's products and technology give IP networks a common way to exchange, monitor, secure, and bill for sessions that flow through them. More than 400 service providers and enterprises worldwide use NexTone's solutions to dramatically lower capital expenditures and deliver ongoing operational efficiencies such as reduced interconnect "turn-up" time and simplified network operations. The company is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, with domestic and international sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.nextone.com. |
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