infonet gets serious about ip telephony
November 27, 1998
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,: In
parallel with linking up with Networks
Telephone Corp.(NTC) to develop its global
voice-over-IP (Internet protocol)
technology, Infonet has announced it is now
providing secure Internet access for more
than 100 multinationals around the world.
The linkup with NTC will, the firm says, allow
it to develop Internet telephony applications
for use by its customers.
"NTC's integrated suite of VoIP services
enables us to leapfrog the competition,
entering quickly the growing global IP voice
market with a ready-to- use solution,"
explained Jose Collazo, Infonet's president.
According to Collazo, using the new service,
Infonet's new and existing clients will be able
to place telephone calls just as they would
normally. NTC will delivers the call to any
phone, logs its duration and generate a billing
statement in real time, passing it along to
Infonet to bill to the customer company.
On the global front, Infonet says that it now
has dedicated and dial access points of
presence (PoPs) on its network in 59
countries around the world.
According to Bob DaGiau, the firm's vice
president of global intranet marketing,
Infonet's global frame relay and global IP
gateway services have enabled customers to
obtain access to applications that run across
both the public Internet and within their own
corporate intranets.
"In 1991, Infonet recognized that our
multinational clients required that their frame
relay and IP-based intranets required secure,
reliable access to the Internet, so we
implemented our gateways then. As
e-commerce and extranets become more of a
requirement for our clients, we will continue
to enhance and evolve our gateway
services," he explained.
As reported last week by Newsbytes, Infonet
is now offering an international
voice-over-data service that has a fixed
price structure.
The new flat-rate tariff is known as the
Global MultiMedia Service (GMS) data-
telephony service and offers users a single
monthly charge based on customer
organization's expected usage and country of
origin for calls.
By switching to a flat-rate tariff system,
Infonet says that customers can expect to
pay less overall for their voice-over-IP
services, even when taking into account
existing low-cost pay-as-you-go voice
services. |
