Neutral Tandem (News - Alert), a provider of interconnection services, announced the deployment of a PSX voice softswitch from Sonus Networks (News - Alert) in an interconnection hub, the Telehouse Docklands North location in London.
The new world-class data center in London provides Neutral Tandem's international carrier customers with the ability to interconnect via Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) or Session Initiation Protocol (News - Alert)/ Internet Protocol (SIP/IP). It also provides a neutral point of interconnection and acts as a major hub for companies that operate in the European markets.
"Deploying a voice soft switch in Telehouse's facility in London reinforces our ongoing commitment to expand our International Voice Services, and provides scalable, high quality, direct termination for our carrier customers," said Edward Evans, CEO of Neutral Tandem , in a statement.
With this added flexibility, carriers can interconnect easily and benefit from Neutral Tandem's voice termination services such as CommonPoint, which helps international carriers complete calls to tens of millions of wireless and wireline telephony end points in the US, the company said.
The service also enables customers to directly interconnect with the Neutral Tandem voice network via SIP\IP in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, and the U.S.
"This deployment is yet another milestone attained by Neutral Tandem as we expand globally and strengthen our fully meshed, all-IP, MPLS network, and streamline how competitive carriers route traffic between one another,” Evans added.
Sonus Networks provides voice infrastructure solutions for wireless and wireline service providers. In June, the company announced a software upgrade that delivers on the company's plan to support IPv6 across its entire product line.
The software upgrade enables Sonus customers to work effectively with both IPv4 and IPv6 technologies while the industry's transition to full IPv6 is underway, company officials said.
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