 MAYNARD, Mass., June 27, 2007 – Covergence®, the leading provider of session border control solutions for the access edge, today announced that Interoute, owner and operator of Europe’s most advanced voice and data network and value-added services company, has selected the Eclipse™ Session Border Controller (SBC) to enable its new Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) clearinghouse service. The Interoute clearinghouse service enables enterprises to connect their Microsoft LCS Server and its successor, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS), securely to OCS/LCS deployments in other organizations.
Enterprises see the potential cost-saving and productivity enhancements offered by real-time collaborative services. But until organizations can extend collaborative services to users in other companies, the benefits remain elusive. With Covergence, Interoute is able to remove these barriers and offer secure, reliable business-class VoIP, video, Instant Messaging (IM), presence and other services to business users.
“Interoute chose Eclipse because it is uniquely designed to make our new IM and VoIP clearinghouse service a reality,” said Mark Senior, Product Manager, Corporate Voice for Interoute. “Eclipse is designed to scale, secure and control multimedia services so we can be confident our clearinghouse users can, free of charge, send secure Instant Messages, share calendars, view presence and make video and voice calls with other companies on the Interoute network using their Microsoft Office Communicator clients. Users can also opt to place calls to and receive calls from the Public Telephone network for a truly converged desktop solution.”
Microsoft’s Communication Server (LCS/OCS) is an enterprise-class, real-time collaboration (RTC) system that supports presence-enabled instant messaging, audio, video, white-boarding and application sharing. Eclipse is the industry's first Session Border Controller purpose-built to address the unique requirements of deploying multimedia applications. Located where user SIP traffic first enters the network, Eclipse terminates, secures, controls and manages VoIP and LCS sessions with the highest efficiency.
Eclipse combines traditional border control with comprehensive security and powerful management capabilities to deliver a single point of security, control and management for VoIP and LCS/OCS. The solution works at the application-level to support all modes of LCS/OCS communication (peer-to-peer audio, video, file transfer, telephony, phone control, conference control, etc) and provide value-added features such as IM, audio and video content recording and virus-scanning of LCS/OCS-based file transfers.
“We are very pleased to be working with a leading innovator such as Interoute,” said Bob O’Neil, president and CEO for Covergence. “There really is no other network like theirs in Europe that is capable of supporting the kind of innovation necessary to make true unified communications a reality. Their clearinghouse service opens new markets for Interoute and will be extremely valuable to industries with defined relationships, such as the supply chain in manufacturing and the buy-side and sell-side in the investment banking industry.”
The Eclipse family spans the needs of the small to medium-sized business (SMB) with the CXC-50 and continues all the way up to the world’s largest service providers with recently-announced support for the industry-standard AdvancedTCA chassis. All Eclipse models are available from Covergence today and can be purchased by contacting sales@covergence.com or by calling 978.823.5200.
About Covergence
Covergence is the leader in scaling, securing and controlling VoIP and other real-time services. The Covergence Eclipse™ series of next-generation session border controllers combines traditional session-border-control functionality with comprehensive security features and management tools. Eclipse is purpose-built to securely and reliably connect users to VoIP and multi-media services while giving organizations the complete control and visibility they require. www.covergence.com.
About Interoute
Interoute is owner operator of Europe's most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, encompassing over 53,000kms of fibre extending throughout Europe (including Central and Eastern Europe), to USA, Tunisia and Dubai.
Its full-service next generation network serves more than 12,000 customers from retail to aerospace, every major European incumbent as well as the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments, universities and research agencies. These organisations find Interoute the ideal partner for managing business critical systems, firewalls and information security solutions, disaster recovery and corporate access. With established operations throughout mainland Europe and in North America, Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe's major business centres. More than €1 billion in e-commerce transactions flows through its data centres each day, making Interoute a key part of Europe’s Digital Supply Chain. www.interoute.com
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