By Bo Gowan
10 October 2008
9:29 am EDT
Nortel CS 2000 IP multimedia softswitchComstar United TeleSystems, the largest fixed-line telecommunications company in Moscow, has fully deployed a VoIP transit backbone network that spans Russia. Comstar’s VoIP network is built on the Nortel Communication Server (CS) 2000 IP multimedia softswitch.
The Russia-wide CS 2000 transit network creates a nation-wide network to address national and international PSTN transit traffic exclusively using Voice over IP technology. Russia is, of course, the largest country in the world — spanning more than an eighth of the Earth’s land area.
You can read more in this press release issued yesterday.
Also yesterday, Nortel announced that Turk Telecom was providing Centrex IP and …
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By Bo Gowan
16 July 2008
12:39 pm EDT
You might not think that Nortel is in the business of making high-speed rail safer, but that’s what Nortel announced yesterday in one of several customer win announcements released.
If you live in the U.S. or Canada, you’re probably not that familiar with GSM-R technology. As its name indicates, GSM-R is built on the GSM wireless standard popular around the world. But while GSM is a legacy wireless standard soon to be replaced with newer 3G and 4G technologies, GSM-R is a relatively new standard specifically targeted to railway networks (more detail here).
The GSM-R standard is a digital replacement for today’s hodge-podge of mostly incompatible analogue railway …
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By Bo Gowan
21 May 2008
12:37 pm EDT
Click here to call me at home.
No, that doesn’t work yet, but this week Nortel unveiled a new solution called the IP Powered Home that makes it possible. Targeted at service providers, IP Powered Home is essentially a bundle of consumer-based applications that merge phone, Internet, and TV services in the home.
The solution uses residential VoIP as a base, then adds on optional services that customers can subscribe to from their service provider (much like today’s residential voice service model).
The core solution provides VoIP lines for each member of the family, a single number for both home and mobile phones, and video calling features. Customers can set up call routing preferences based on …
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By Bo Gowan
22 January 2008
4:18 pm EST
Broadband wireless provider Clearwire is using Nortel to build out their own VoIP network. Today in this press release, Nortel announced a contract with Clearwire to provide the end-to-end network and supporting services.
Clearwire is a provider of wireless broadband to the home as a DSL/cable alternative. At last public count, they had ~350,000 subscribers across 46 markets in the U.S.
Clearwire already offers their residential customers VoIP service bundles in 37 of their 46 markets using partner networks. This new network will bring the VoIP network in-house using Nortel’s CS 2000 for the infrastructure, and Nortel AS 5200 to provide the base of SIP applications such as voice, call management, desktop video calling, and collaboration tools.
For more info, …
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