Nortel Raises the Bar in Carrier VoIP Softswitch Market at Supercomm 2009
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS–(Marketwire – Oct. 21, 2009) – Solidifying its market-leading position in the carrier VoIP and Softswitch market and continuing its drive to help service providers boost network efficiencies, lower total cost of ownership and reduce subscriber churn, Nortel(1) (OTCBB:NRTLQ) Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions (CVAS) unveiled the latest enhancements of its state-of-the art Communication Server 2000 (CS 2000) carrier IP softswitch at the Supercomm(2) 2009 tradeshow.
Nortel CVAS has consistently ranked as the number one supplier in the carrier VoIP market since 2002. This success is the result of proven and leading-edge VoIP solutions: Business voice and multimedia solution, Consumer voice and multimedia solution, Transit and Multimedia Interconnect solution, and the Class 5 solution. These solutions have been successfully deployed across the globe to satisfy the needs of both the small and the large Service Providers deployments. The solutions are media agnostic, are fully featured with full PSTN transparency, can be deployed in either fully SIP or hybrid environments, are bundled with key capabilities to meet all VoIP networking and management requirements, and are fully tested out to the end points.
Nortel is introducing a new hardware platform, called the CS 2000a, which boosts service providers’ capacity in a smaller footprint, provides up to a 70 percent reduction in footprint and a 50 percent power savings compared to currently available platform options. Nortel’s CS 2000a enables service providers to handle peak call periods more efficiently because it supports call capacity in excess of 5 million Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCA).
CS 2000a leverages Nortel’s widely deployed second