Broadcasting

September 23, 2005
Veraz Extends PSTN and VoIP application portability to wireless networks

NEW DELHI—Veraz Networks extends the application portability that it has provided to PSTN and VoIP broadband networks, to wireless networks. Based on Veraz’s service delivery platform and its library of native protocols, veraz advances fixed mobile convergence (FMC) by unifying the service layer and enabling the application portability across the wireline and wireless networks.

The path towards offering applications across the different networks and multiple devices is challenged with a proliferation of signaling, call/session control, and service protocols. Protocols used in various TDM and VoIP networks in addition to wireless protocols such as IS-41, GSM-MAP, WIN and CAMEL provide a richness of features and parameters to support specific service sets. Some of today’s market approaches require the choice of abandoning existing service platforms or compromising on feature richness because they can not natively support key protocols. Veraz’s solution preserves and leverages the richness of existing and new protocols by having them accessible within the call control and services core. Veraz built up a library of native protocols, and in combination with its programmable service broker unifying the service layer, it is easy to add new protocols such as wireless IN and ongoing enhancements to SIP and IMS related interfaces.

The Veraz architecture incorporates programmable service broker capabilities that can coordinate between multiple service platforms, like legacy wireline and wireless SCPs, NGN app servers, and services within the Veraz ControlSwitch. Service providers on the path to FMC will experience less pain along this path as Veraz’s architecture enables each layer to converge independently and at its own pace. With a unified approach for applications, networks, and devices, Veraz is also eliminating the need to recreate or duplicate functionality across networks, reducing costs and simplifying the convergence process.

Both subscribers and service providers benefit from Veraz’s approach. Subscribers will be able to centralise their communications control by integrating their wireless and wireline addresses, devices and service/subscriptions across their multiple communication devices. The increased customer loyalty will be just one of the many benefits realised by service providers. Veraz’s FMC approach is enabled by its family of programmable softswitch, service delivery and media gateway platforms that are based on a distributed architecture that maps to IMS to deliver voice and/or multimedia services to subscribers across any available access network, including over broadband access media such as DSL, cable, metro Ethernet or wireless broadband, in addition to mobile networks and existing narrowband digital loop systems.

Doug Sabella, president and CEO of Veraz Networks, said: "Customer acceptance of convergence requires operators to provide them with tangible benefits in addition to the improved pricing value. Service providers will benefit from service-rich offerings that leverage both existing and new service platforms to satisfy their customers' varied and multi-generational devices.  With application portability, the Veraz architecture reduces the risk of the convergence process while multiplying its overall pace and benefit.”

Bettina Tratz-Ryan, Research Director at Gartner, Inc., said: We are starting to learn more about the different vendor offerings that address convergence.  For those solution providers that have as part of their offerings a viable network architecture and service delivery platform to address both emerging IMS, as well as legacy IN integration, these solution providers will be sought after by the service providers as they plan their FMC.”

Contact:
Veraz Networks
www.veraznetworks.com