[December 27, 2007] Hosted 'PortaSwitch' Softswitch Solution Tweet Hosted PortaSwitch (PortaBilling + PortaSIP + PortaUM) Cosmics Operate a full hosted PortaSwitch solution. This service allows service providers to enter the market with no initial investment and a pay as you grow model. Each Switch Partition will be assigned a unique IP address for PortaSip which is dedicated to that customers traffic alone. The complete solution is available and service providers pay for voice ports. Minimum number of voice ports per partition is 30. There are no limitation on hosted platform, service providers will have access to all functionalities of PortaSwitch without paying thousands of $ for the cost of the platform, hosting and bandwidth. The interface is fully customizable. -Traffic Exchange With a Cosmics Hosted PortaSwitch traffic exchange solution, carriers can offer call exchange services to affiliate service providers worldwide. Backed by the extremely robust PortaBilling100 engine, this solution allows efficient mediation of even the largest traffic volumes. Thanks to a tandem of advanced components, Cosmics Hosted PortaSwitch VoIP traffic exchange solution facilitates interconnection among VoIP networks regardless of their call control protocol, equipment vendor or internal architecture. Cosmics Hosted PortaSwitch enables the creation of scalable and easy-to-manage transit VoIP networks (via SIP), providing call authentication/authorization, information on priority-based and least-cost routing, CDR processing, and advanced statistics (ASR, cost/revenue, etc.). As an option, the actual call switching, routing and transcoding can be handled by a partner acting as the session border controller. This solution is recommended for wholesale VoIP providers. -Enterprise Services With services like Centrex and Virtual Office, business customers can communicate more efficiently while retaining their existing technology and phone numbers. Using a high-speed Internet connection, users are able to customize features and control settings online and in real time, from anywhere in the world. Dramatically lower calling costs, simplified billing and a wide array of business-friendly features are the key to the success of VoIP enterprise telephony services. -Residential Services Dramatically lower calling costs, simplified billing and a wide array of user-friendly features are the key to the popularity of residential Internet telephony services. This in turn makes them attractive for ITSPs and other carriers seeking to extend their present operations and increase revenues. -Calling Card Services Prepaid and postpaid calling card services represent one of the fastest-growing types of enhanced voice services. A variety of consumer segments - students, business and leisure travellers, expatriates, immigrants - have fuelled their growth. These services are especially popular among mobile phone users, as an alternative to mobile operators' outrageously high international rates and roaming fees. -Callshop services Cosmics Hosted PortaSwitch VoIP-based callshop solutions are attractive to customers for their low entry cost (no need for significant additional investment) and great flexibility. Internet caf?allshop owners can offer users prepaid and/or postpaid calling, as well as issue their own calling cards. Cosmics Unified Communications (News - Alert) PLC Coppergate House 16 Brune Street London E1 7NJ England Tel: +44-(0)203 051 0810 Fax: +44-(0)207 953 8485 Website: www.cosmics.com Email: [email protected] Voice over IP (VoIP) X A real-time communications system that converts voice into digital packets containing media and signaling data that travel over networks using Internet Protocol....more Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) X SIP is the real-time communication protocol for VoIP. SIP is a signaling protocol for Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification (emergency calling) and instant messaging. SIP...more Internet Protocol (IP) X IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data in packets over the Internet. I...more Session Border Controller (SBC) X According to one end user, "The primary function of the SBC is to serve, basically, as a SIP aware NATing Firewall." Session Controllers or SBC are access devices operating at Layer 5 - Session Layer...more Roaming X Roaming is both a cellular and one for WiFi-Wireless Fidelity. Here is the explanation for cellular. Each wireless and wireline exchange carrier may modify the process and this should be considered a...more [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]