Datacomm

September 12, 2002
Commworks crosses ten billion-minute mark for voice traffic

NEW DELHI -- CommWorks, a 3Com company, has carried more than ten billion minutes of voice traffic for service providers around the world, using IP telephony equipment, the company recently said.

The landmark was surpassed late August, just 29 months after the system was first deployed (April 2000). This year alone, the volume of traffic has doubled, from five billion minutes worldwide at the end of January 2002, to ten billion minutes at the end of August 2002. CommWorks' system is now carrying nearly 680 million minutes of voice traffic each month for service providers in North America, Europe and Asia. CommWorks' IP telephony system is based on a three-tier architecture of media gateways and softswitch modules for signaling, call control and network management, and back-end servers interconnected by open standards-based protocols.

At tier one, Total Control media gateways integrate multiple traffic types and accommodate disparate networks. At tier two, the softswitch provides media control and management, session control functions and multi-protocol PSTN/IP signaling. At tier three, it is responsible for critical network services, including accounting, authentication and rating, billing support, directory mapping, and Web provisioning.