Cisco Announces Carrier-Class Solution for Enhanced Voice Services in New World
November 10, 1998
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)
VCO/4K SwitchBrings Enhanced Voice Services to
AccessPath-VS3
Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced
availability of the VCO/4K open programmable
switch as an option for the Cisco
AccessPath-VS3 (AP-VS3) carrier-class VoIP
platform. The combined AP-VS3 and VCO/4K
solution provides both emerging and
established carriers with an efficient and
cost-effective way to deliver a broad range
of value-added voice services today, as well
as support for mixed-environment networks.
This news comes just days after Cisco
completed its acquisition of Summa Four, the
company that developed the VCO/4K switch.
The AP-VS3 is a fully integrated dial access
system that enables quick deployment of toll
quality voice and fax services over IP
networks. The redundancy and
hot-swappability features of the VCO/4K
enhance the already high availability figures
of the carrier-class AP-VS3.
The open telephony architecture of the
VCO/4K has allowed over 50 industry leading
software developers to create a broad
selection of applications such as pre- and
post-paid calling card, voice/fax messaging,
single-number service, voice-activated
dialing, and web-initiated conferencing. The
variety of available applications makes rapid
deployment of enhanced voice services
possible because carriers are not required to
wait for proprietary solutions developed by
traditional switching vendors.
"The AP-VS3 with VCO/4K switching option
will allow us to extend our offering of
enhanced services, including pre-paid service
and unified messaging to VoIP networks,"
said Kobi Alexander, Chairman, CEO and
President at Comverse Technology, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CMVT). "The higher capacity and
cost savings associated with the VCO/4K will
enable our customers to swiftly respond to
changing market needs and deploy additional
services, on both circuit- and packet-based
telephony networks." Comverse Technology
is a world-leading supplier of enhanced
services platforms to network operators.
As a mixed environment gateway, the
AP-VS3 with programmable switching option
enables Cisco customers to realize cost
savings from least-cost routing between
circuit and packet networks. Incoming calls
to destinations that are not served by the
packet-telephony network can be directly
routed to the PSTN without occupying
valuable DSP resources of the
AccessPath-VS3.
Ofer Gneezy, president and CEO of VIP
Calling said, "As part of the end-to-end Cisco
solution we are deploying in The VIP Calling
Network(TM), the combined AP-VS3 and
VCO/4K solution will enable us to more rapidly
integrate and expand toll-quality packet
telephony services on our network. The
compliance of the VCO/4K and the AP-VS3
with a broad range of international
telecommunications variants is key to the
successful integration of the combined
solution in The VIP Calling Network." VIP
Calling is the leading wholesale provider of
international Internet telephony services.
"Cisco's VOIP solution with integrated
programmable switching allows nimble,
market-oriented players like One.Tel to
compete with larger circuit-switch carriers
because it enables us to deploy new voice
services faster and at a more competitive
price," said Jodee Rich, Joint Managing
Director, One.Tel Limited, an emerging carrier
and new generation telephone company in
Australia.
Key Features of the Access Path VS3 and
the VCO/4K
The Cisco AccessPath-VS3 is the industry's
first fully integrated dial access system that
merges universal VoIP access,
industry-leading switching and high-speed
back-haul routing capabilities into a single,
scalable architecture.
The VCO/4K is a fully redundant platform
that scales from 24 to 4,088 ports,
representing a new standard of density for
open programmable switching platforms. It
offers a broad array of integrated application
creation and management software tools,
and complies with worldwide telco standards.
Availability
The VCO/4K open programmable switch is
available now as an option for the Cisco
AP-VS3 platform.
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