Sets New Standards for Performance and Reliability
FRISCO, TX, June 01, 2005 - With IP-based communications experiencing rapid growth worldwide, Newport Networks is bringing to the US market the industry's only carrier-grade session border control solution. Along with announcing expansion of the organization with new offices in Frisco, Texas, Newport issued a second announcement detailing the availability of Release 2.0 of the 1460 session border controller software with enhanced redundancy, regulatory compliance and return-on-investment (ROI) advantages for top-tier Voice over IP providers.
"Service providers now require the same predictability, reliability and profitability as the PSTN for voice and multimedia over IP," says Terry Matthews, Chairman of Newport Networks. "It's time for vendors to step up and help providers succeed with new packet-based services. The US market is absolutely ready for a session border controller of this caliber. Newport is here to raise the bar."
Redefining "Carrier-class" Session Border Control
Where competing solutions address the challenges of completing calls behind corporate firewalls and Network Address Translation (NAT) devices, the 1460 adds architectural and cost-performance advantages. These bring the predictable quality and reliability expected of the PSTN to VoIP for the first time. As IP-based telephony and multimedia gain traction, the 1460 satisfies the stringent requirements of Tier 1 and Tier 2 service providers, re-defining "carrier-class" session border control:
Reliability: The 1460 architecture offers device, network and service resilience, unmatched in the industry. This includes:
- Redundant Management Cards, ensuring manageability under card and network failure scenarios;
- Redundant power feeds supplying segregated power zones, ensuring that any power failure does not impact the ability to offer service;
- Automatic fail-over among cards;
- Link Aggregation (802.3-2002), allowing traffic to continue to flow even in the event of line failure.
Scalability: The Newport solution sets new standards for scalability in terms of subscribers and calls supported in a single device. It provides the performance, versatility and processing power needed to enable real-world applications:
- Over 120,000 concurrent calls supported;
- Up to 1 million registered subscribers per node;
- Architectural flexibility allowing the product to be configured optimally to accommodate processor intensive applications such as SIP re-registration filtering;
- Architected for bandwidth-intensive multimedia applications such as video.
Predictability: In addition to delivering a resilient and robust architecture, Release 2.0 of the 1460 session border controller software gives service providers the ability to meet customer requirements and manage traffic more efficiently through:
- Policing: Each call is policed to ensure that the bandwidth used matches the authorized bandwidth, thus preventing service theft and ensuring call-quality for other users,
- Session admission control: Allows service providers to manage QoS for each customer and therefore ensure that Service Level Agreements are met.
ROI/Cost-of-ownership: 1460 delivers better return on investment (ROI) than stacked solutions. The chassis-based 1460 was designed for an extended life cycle in Tier 1 and Tier 2 carrier networks. The system can easily address new applications through software upgrades and the addition of new interface and processing cards. The 1460 is also distinguished by abundant processing power allowing advanced features, such as CALEA, to be implemented.
Release 2.0 of Newport Networks' 1460 session border controller will ship in the North American and international markets through third quarter 2005. Visitors to SuperComm can find out more about Newport Networks which will be in booth number #19042 or in the SIP Pavilion in booth #67088F
About Newport Networks Group PLC
Newport Networks Group PLC, listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange in May 2004, has designed and developed the 1460 session border controller to solve existing commercial and technical problems in the provision of Voice over IP (VoIP) and Multimedia over IP (MoIP) services. The 1460 session border controller addresses the key service delivery issues of quality and security, enabling service providers to create new revenue streams from VoIP and MoIP while controlling the cost of delivery. Based in the UK and North America, Newport Networks has an experienced team headed by Chairman Terry Matthews and CEO John Everard. The team has a proven track record of identifying new service provider network technologies, developing products and managing the growth of international businesses.
Further information at www.newport-networks.com
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