MAYNARD, Mass., January 28, 2008 – Covergence®, the leading provider of next-generation Session Border Controller solutions, today announced that GlobalConnect/SuperTel A/S, DGC, InTechnology, Hipcom, VanillaIP and IP Directions, have chosen Covergence Session Manager (CSM) to enforce security, management and control policies at the access edge of their networks. CSM, a super set of traditional Session Border Controllers (SBCs), is designed specifically to address the challenges of the most vulnerable region of IP networks – the access edge. By deploying CSM, service providers can deliver Voice over IP (VoIP) and other real-time services, ensuring that customers receive the secure, reliable access to communications service they require.
Demand for VoIP, real-time and enhanced services continues to increase as more enterprises see the potential cost savings and productivity enhancements offered by these services. As businesses move primary-line telephones to IP, demand for “toll quality” connections is growing as well. To meet this demand, service providers must be able to scale the access edge with consistency and predictability, and Covergence Session Manager (CSM) is the industry's first session management solution designed for the access edge.
“As a large alternative provider of tele and data-communication services in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, GlobalConnect is focused on helping organizations build and expand their access services,” said Niels Zibrandtsen, CEO, GlobalConnect. "After evaluating several Session Border Controller solutions, we found Covergence Session Manager uniquely suited to deliver the security, quality and reliability that we need to deploy VoIP and real-time services to our customers through our VOIP subsidary, SuperTel A/S."
Located where user SIP traffic first enters the network, CSM terminates, secures, controls and manages large numbers of user connections efficiently and effectively. The access edge is more difficult to scale than the network core and the network-to-network peering boundary, especially when providers are managing not just VoIP, but a whole host of real-time services. For example, a subscriber-edge system has to process registration traffic, secure subscriber connections and protect the internal network from intrusions, attacks and compromises.
“The access edge is susceptible to considerable threats and vulnerabilities when you’re delivering telephony, video and other real-time services,” said Gerry Askefalk, CTO, DGC Communications AB. “CSM provides the scaling, controlling and monitoring capabilities that allow us to deploy new offerings securely to the Swedish corporate market. CSM also enables us tooffer add-on services such as recording and LCS/OCS integration which makes it ideally suited for our needs.”
“At InTechnology we have built a state of the art communications infrastructure to manage our voice, data and network services,” said Glenn Tookey, marketing director, for UK-based InTechnology plc. "With Covergence Session Manager in place we now have world-class quality, security and reliability for all our real-time services at scale and they have also demonstrated very strong interworking capabilities with our other platforms such as Broadsoft, Polycom and Huawei.”
“As a provider of Hosted IP Communication solutions, ensuring that our solutions exceed the quality expectations of our customer is paramount,” said James Brind, CTO, Hipcom. “By adding the Covergence Session Manager to our existing platform, we can now guarantee the security, quality and reliability of our offering, giving us the competitive edge necessary to remain on the forefront of the industry.”
“The ability to deliver secure, fully-integrated real-time communications to our customers is critical to our business,” said Dave Dadds, managing director, for UK-based VanillaIP. "With Covergence Session Manager in place we have much greater visibility and control over the security and reliability of all our communications services.”
“As the first VoIP carrier in France dedicated to the wholesale and NVNO market, we offer a full range of services from call collection and termination to any destination, numbering plan and number portability with support for emergency calls and other legal requirements to Ring Back Tone generation. This allows our partners to deploy IP Telephony and value-added services to their enterprise and residential customers,” said Gilles Bernard, managing director, IP Directions. “We chose Covergence and Covergence Session Manager because it fulfills our scaling, routing policies and security requirements and offers us a foundation for our next-generation convergences services.”
“What sets Covergence Session Manager apart from other Session Border Controllers is that it was purpose-built to address the problems of the access edge and designed to exceed the quality expectations of enterprise customers,” said Bob O’Neil, president and CEO, Covergence. “Covergence is committed to helping service providers add new revenue-generating services to their portfolios that meet the security, regulatory and business requirements their enterprise customers require.”
Covergence Session Manager is designed to meet the needs of small to medium-sized businesses (SMB) and scales its offerings all the way up to the world’s largest service providers, with support for the IBM BladeCenter. All Covergence Session Manager models are available immediately and can be purchased by contacting your sales representative.
About Covergence
Covergence is the leader in scaling, securing and controlling VoIP and other real-time services. The award-winning Covergence Session Manager combines traditional session-border-control functionality with comprehensive security features and management tools. Covergence Session Manager 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.
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