VoIP Gateways

Sangoma Technologies (News - Alert), a provider of hardware and software components for enhancing IP communications systems, claims that its new series of NetBorder VoIP Gateway (News - Alert) solutions deliver up to 32 T1/E1/J1 digital telephony spans in a single carrier-class chassis.

The new series of products was supposedly tweaked to deliver competitively priced carrier reliability and performance along with a comprehensive one-time licensing model.

Simon Horton, Sangoma director of product development, commented, “The new NetBorder VoIP Gateway provides cost-effective Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Session Initiation Protocol (News - Alert) (SIP) network integration for carriers and service providers of every size and technology requirement.”

Horton added, “This gateway features a carrier-grade chassis that can provide multiple levels of redundancy and resilience that are required in the highly competitive carrier marketplace. In addition, Sangoma has incorporated many features and tools to make the provisioning and maintenance of customer circuits simple and intuitive, helping carriers deliver top-quality service while minimizing the operational expenses often associated with grooming customer circuits.”

Sangoma explained that its NetBorder VoIP gateway appliances are cost-effective, turnkey solution offerings from 4 to 256 T1/E1 lines at a single point code, and powerful transcoding capabilities – up to 8 T1/E1 lines available in a 1U box and up to 32 lines in a 2U box.

The new 2u rack-mount chassis supports 16 or 32 T1/E1/J1 digital telephony spans and features new enhanced functionalities like intuitive operation and maintenance Web GUI, on-the-fly profile synchronization and configuration management, optional redundant AC or DC power supplies, and a wide range of integrated troubleshooting and logging capabilities to ensure efficient operation.

Sangoma asserted that these functionalities enable the NetBorder VoIP Gateways to be deployed in high-end VoIP conferencing and hosted IVR service applications, international wholesale SIP services, large enterprise TDM to SIP interworking, softswitch to PSTN integration, or basic hosted VoIP business services.

Some of the notable features of NetBorder Gateways include: the ability connect calls between PSTN and VoIP networks; an integrated media gateway, signaling gateway and media gateway controller; compatibility with distributed architecture; is scalable, carrier-grade and highly interoperable with other system types; supports a wide range of codecs for VoIP, PSTN and wireless and a wide range of SS7 and VoIP signaling protocols; sophisticated call routing and much more.