Ivox Deploys VegaStream

LONDON and SYDNEY -- Vega 400 IP-to-TDM gateways are leading the assault on the near-monopoly for fixed telephone services enjoyed by Telstra in Australia. VoIP provider Ivox Communications has deployed multiple Vega 400 gateways to interconnect its VoIP service to the public network. Ivox delivers high quality voice services for resale by Australian ISPs and other alternate providers. As one of the first companies into this new market, launching in 2004, Ivox has attained its leading position by focussing on the quality of its service.

"With no real competition for local loop to consumers, the alternate telephone service market in Australia is constrained to the enterprise and SME market," said Ivox CEO Romain Bonjean. "In this market you cannot compromise on quality albeit the service is highly competitively priced. Our call quality is assured by using TDM telephony backhauls to all 66 Australian call collection zones, plus a nationwide MPLS data network to ensure the fastest and most reliable IP connectivity to all areas of Australia. iVox uses banks of Vegastream gateways to provide the interconnections between our IP telephony network, our TDM call carriage network, and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). This underlying transport quality is supported by a world-class billing system."

"We chose the VegaStream solution because it provided the ISDN signalling and number translation support that allows us to offer a national footprint for a comprehensive call collection and termination service," said Romain. "We have not experienced a single gateway failure since we launched the service a year ago and the call quality remains consistently high even though we have operated at peak capacity."

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