TransNexus and Emergent Network Solutions on Monday certified the Entice Session Border Controller and NexSRS certificate authority and settlement server which are now fully interoperable for secure VoIP peering.
The system combo uses Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) services for a more secure peer to peer access control and settlement accounting among interconnect peers. This security feature allows VoIP wholesalers, VoIP clearinghouses, IP transport providers and network co-location providers to "increase customer loyalty and generate new revenues from peer to peer VoIP traffic," noted the companies' news release.
Secure VoIP peering for Entice now includes two new features used to reduce interconnect fraud risk and settlement disputes. "First, digitally signed tokens included with each call setup ensure secure peer to peer access control. Second, real time collection of encrypted call detail records from both source and destination peers eliminate interconnect settlement billing disputes," explained the release.
In order to enable secure VoIP peering, the Entice Session Border Controller communicates with the NexSRS settlement server using the OSP peering protocol, an operations and billing support (OSS/BSS) protocol standard. The OSP peering protocol is supported by VoIP platforms such as Cisco, Veraz, Asterisk, SIP Express Router and OpenSER.
"We are pleased to certify that the TransNexus OSS/ BSS software platform is fully compatible with the Entice Session Border Controller. Our partnership with Emergent offers TransNexus' customers new alternatives for VoIP protocol inter-working and interoperability," said Jim Dalton CEO of TransNexus in a statement.
Today's news follows Emergent releasing the ENTICE 2.4, its VoIP call control platform back in March. Among the additions and upgrades in Version 2.4 are support for SOAP based Web-based services, a new traffic monitoring and reporting module and dynamic least-cost routing. ENTICE has been enhanced with advanced mobility features for roaming SIP endpoints and new security features enabled by the addition of p-header support.
TransNexus
http://www.transnexus.com
Emergent Network Solutions
http://www.emergent-netsolutions.com
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne's columnist page.
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