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A Herzliya, Israel-based provider of carrier-class multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions, VocalTec Communications,. has announced that its Essentra VoIP solution has been deployed by over 100 telecom service providers on IBM (News - Alert) System X server platforms.

 

“Given IBM and VocalTec’s experience, it was easy to make the decision of purchasing their products," said Stefano Iannucci, Project Manager at Switchward, a Swiss provider of wholesale VoIP services.

 

"We quickly entered a high-growth market, reaching excellent performance from day one. The solution is extremely reliable, highly scalable and modular, enabling us to grow cost-effectively over time. We view both IBM and VocalTec (News - Alert) as long-term partners, and look forward to expanding this relationship in the future," Ianucci said.

 

Commercial, off the shelf (COTS) IT technologies bring down the cost of deploying Next-Generation Networks (NGN) based on open, IP-based standards. With this, carriers are able to affordably deliver new telecom VoIP integrated services on Class-4 and Class-5 softswitches.

 

VocalTec Essentra Large-scale Class-5 solution leverages innovative grid computing technologies to allow carriers to scale up to millions of subscribers through sharing of application objects across multiple servers. The solution offers a host of useful features including predictable/linear scalability, site redundancy, continuous availability, information reliability, as well as low response time and high throughput, officials said.

 

”As service providers continue to migrate from legacy, PSTN networks to new, open standard, IP-based networks, they are seeking the best technologies,” said Scott Firth, NGN Director of IBM Systems & Technology Group. “By tapping into the IT economies of scale, service providers are able to quickly launch new IP services like VocalTec’s VoIP at significantly reduced costs over legacy systems.”