NexTone Communications unveils its NEBS3-compliant, chassis-based, real-time session manager

December 13, 2004

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GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- NexTone(TM) Communications, the market leader in scalable session management of real-time IP services such as voice over IP (VoIP), today announced the first solution that combines both transport and application quality of service (QoS) to deliver deterministic performance for real-time services over converged IP networks. The new platform includes a NEBS3-compliant, chassis-based Real-time Session Manager (RSM), which acts as a centralized policy manager and enforcement point to manage network resources and optimize call distribution, and the Multiprotocol Session Controller (MSC), enhanced with microflow management capabilities to work with multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) devices to enforce QoS policies across the network edge.

"Carriers are looking to IP technologies to help them combat competitive threats, reduce capital and operational expenses, and increase service deployment velocity, but they are nervous about IP's ability to satisfy expectations for PSTN-like performance, availability, and service level agreement (SLA) assurances," said Dan Dearing, vice president of marketing at NexTone. "While MPLS provides bulk transport QoS for real-time services, it does not support session-level granularity. An MPLS network also has no knowledge or control of application resources, such as feature servers and media gateways, nor of different access types, such as wireless. NexTone's new RSM platform integrates transport and application QoS to deliver guaranteed end-to-end performance for latency-sensitive applications and services. It supports the true convergence of service and network."

NexTone Communications Inc.

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