IVR Technologies and Stratus Technologies (News - Alert) have successfully completed interoperability and sustained load testing between Talking SIP and the Stratus line of ftServer systems.

 

The advanced software platform offered by IVR Technologies, Talking SIP, combines five traditionally separate network elements into a single, tightly integrated solution for SIP-based VoIP networks.

 

Talking SIP’s architecture combines the features of an application, media, real-time billing, location, and registration server into a single, cohesive, all-in-one solution. The solution provides intelligent and in-demand applications that attract users and reduce turnover through innovative features, creative billing options, customizability and end-user empowerment.

 

Offering cost-effective fault tolerance with complete system redundancy, the Stratus ftServer family ensures high availability of hardware, data, and state for the next-generation network. By using Talking SIP, IVR Technologies’ clients can drive revenue to their networks. By deploying Stratus servers into the mission-critical network, providers are now able to protect their businesses and reputation with an efficient and cost-effective hardware/software solutions in the marketplace.

 

The two companies explained that integration of the product lines required servers with uptime safeguards integral to the design in order to achieve “five nines” (99.999 percent) or better of uptime day after day, year after year. Every aspect of the ftServer system works together to prevent unplanned downtime.

 

Status’ ftServer systems use lockstep technology, which utilizes replicated, fault-tolerant hardware components that process the same instructions at the same time. The redundant component provides an active spare in the event of a component malfunction. This continues normal operation and averts system downtime. 

 

In addition, the system eliminates transient hardware errors that could cause software failures if left unchecked. The companies further explained that hardware logic, in the form of Stratus ASICs, provides the core error detection, fault isolation, and synchronization logic for the lockstep architecture. In contrast to other servers that may offer duplicated power supplies, fans, and disk drives, Stratus provides protection for core system components including motherboards, processors, memory, I/O buses, and I/O adapters.

 

According to Randall Walrond, vice-president of product management, IVR Technologies, the world’s largest and leading carriers deploy Talking SIP to provide core services and revenue generation to their network. He noted that by confirming product interoperability with the Stratus ftServer line clients can now confidently deploy these resilient and easy to manage servers to ensure the continuity of their revenue and operations, while protecting their reputation in the highly competitive telecommunications market.

 

Ali Kafel (News - Alert), Stratus vice-president, telecommunications observed that Talking SIP running on a Stratus server, with its field-proven 99.999 percent uptime reliability, is a potent, complete solution.

 

“The potential it offers for new services and new revenues is exceptionally robust. Combine all of that with the fact that an ftServer system is as simple to deploy, manage and maintain as an ordinary industry-standard server,” added Kafel.