Tampa, FL-based EdgeAccess announced today the availability of their newest Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP - define - news - alert) series of products called Rural Telephony (RT). With RT, the company will enable customers in rural areas to benefit from the possible savings of VoIP-based calling services.
EdgeAccess develops, manufactures and integrates VoIP technology-based products, Universal Devices (UADs), gateways and softswitches. The company specializes in mobile satellite communications for homeland security and first responders (contingency workers).
According to EdgeAccess, its new RT VoIP product series was developed specifically for the satellite delivered broadband Internet market. The company says that by incorporating EdgeAccess proprietary and patented technology, the RT Series offers an efficient and robust VoIP service option for satellite applications, retaining interoperability with standards-based VoIP systems. When combined with EdgeAccess' vPEP SoftSwitch, the RT Series, will be able to deliver near toll quality voice in less than 8 kbps.
Most customers in rural areas have limited options when it comes to broadband high-speed Internet connectivity services. In the absence of terrestrial connections, customers in these areas only have the option of connecting via satellite. Unlike terrestrial connections, satellite connections suffer long throughput delays and even worse, time varying delays by up to several hundred milliseconds. According to EdgeAccess, this causes VoIP packets to often come through out of order or not at all. The company offers a header system that is designed to accurately deliver VoIP packets in the correct order, yet using very little overhead. At the vPEP Softswitch, the packets are restored to conventional overhead formats to make them compatible with all worldwide VoIP applications.
EdgeAccess says its RT Series further improves satellite link efficiency by offering variable packet sizes to adapt to specific modems protocols and again, converts them back to industry-standard packets once they are introduced back into the terrestrial extension network. The RT Series VoIP appliances are currently offered in 2, 4, and 8 port versions, includes firewall and voice over data QoS.
EdgeAccess
www.edgeaccess.com
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