Pactolus Communications (News - Alert), a provider of SIP-based broadband telephony solutions for service creation and delivery, announced that it has been selected by Verscom International as the VoIP/SIP services platform for MetroBeam, Jordan’s first licensed provider of WiMAX and VoIP services.

 

Verscom has chosen Pactolus’ VoBB Application and RapidFLEX Service Creation and Delivery Platform as the basis for a new generation of flexible services, according to Pactolus.

 

“We are committed to providing new levels of customer connectivity, accessibility and service affordability, and to enabling the region’s mobile wireless carriers to integrate new data services,” Ali Awad, director of VoIP & Carrier at MetroBeam, Jordan, said in a statement.

 

MetroBeam plans to brand and market its services under the Kulacom label. Verscom is ensuring the performance and reliability of MetroBeam’s core voice networks, service platforms and WiMAX edge network.

 

In addition, Verscom is also creating new service applications to help foster economic development and workforce productivity, and market-specific applications for sectors such as e-health, e-education, and e-government.

 

Indicating the reasons for choosing Pactolus’ RapidFLEX, Awad said that the object-based RapidFLEX Service Creation Environment enables faster development and deployment of service applications and customization of turnkey ones.

 

Also, the RapidFLEX Service Delivery Platform delivers the scale and stability urgently needed throughout fast-growing Jordan.

 

He explained that the RapidFLEX SDP transparently integrates key functions critical to sustaining call states, such as 1+1 and N+1 server redundancy schemes that incorporate sophisticated component failover logic.

 

Gurkan Ozturk, director of sales and marketing at Verscom International, stated that Pactolus enables his company to conceive, integrate, launch and scale innovative VoIP services that “ideally leverage MetroBeam’s powerful wireless broadband network infrastructure.”