Communications Technology Innovations, NVision Group and Quobis Networks Deliver Covergence Session Manager to Enterprise, Service Provider Markets
MAYNARD, Mass., February 4, 2008 – Covergence®, the leading provider of next-generation Session Border Controller solutions, today announced that Communications Technology Innovations (CTI), nVision and Quobis Networks, leading EMEA providers of communications applications, systems and services for enterprises and service providers, will resell the Covergence Session Manager family of Session Border Controller solutions. Using the Covergence solution, reseller customers will now be able to secure, control and manage IP Telephony and real-time services from a single point in the network.
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. 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.
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.
CTI, a Russian system integrator and software development company that specializes in IP communications, has chosen Covergence for its ability to deliver business-grade VoIP and real-time services.
“Solutions provided by Covergence effectively complement the product portfolio --softswitches, gateways, CPEs, etc. -- offered by CTI company,” said Oleg Schapov, Commercial Director, CTI. “They will be of interest to our customers implementing VoIP platforms because they help to ensurequality, security, and reliability of service.”
NVision Group, a market-leading, Russian system integrator also chose Covergence Session Manager. “NVision Group is committed to making only the very best networking technology available to our clients and prospects throughout the Russian Federation,” said Anton Sushkevich, General Director, NVision Group. “We chose Covergence Session Manager because it is industry leading in terms of securing, managing and controlling voice and other real-time IP communications. We have a pleasure to note that our national clients are interested in solutions based on technologies of Covergence. This approach corresponds with our strategy to improve the businesses of Russian and C.I.S. clients with best-in-class solutions.”
Quobis Networks, a Spanish telecommunication system integration company, selected Covergence to scale, secure and control real-time services for their customers. “Our objective is to provide the highest quality, most cost-effective solution to our customers and prospects,” said Elias Perez Carrera, CTO, Quobis Networks. “Covergence helps us meet our objectives with its award-winning Covergence Session Manager.”
“By leveraging relationships with regional resellers, Covergence is able to broaden its reach across the globe and penetrate new markets,“ said Bob O’Neil, CEO and president, Covergence. “These trusted and respected system integrators will now be able to leverage the power of Covergence Session Manager and deliver secure, reliable IP-based voice and real-time communications to their respective markets.”
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.
About Communications Technology Innovations
CTI – Communications. Technology. Innovations. was founded in 2002 as Russian systems integrator and software development company specialized in IP-communications, whose main goal is to develop solutions for multiservice IP-networks and info-communications systems with the use of IP-technology.
CTI has accumulated an extensive and in many aspects unrivaled experience in implementation of projects for designing and deploying IP-networks for corporations and service providers, IP-Telephony networks and systems of various scale and functionality, Call- and Contact Centers and Video over IP solutions. CTI also is developing its own suite of software products for the telecommunications market under CTI trademark such as Billing systems, components of OSS/BSS systems, various IP-Telephony applications and Video over IP systems. www.cti.ru/en/
About NVision Group
NVision Group is a market-leading outstanding Russian system integrator that shows the rapid business growth due to the delivery of value-added IT services to the companies in C.I.S. Committed to delivering innovative solutions, NVision Group helps clients to become high-performance businesses and governments. NVision Group collaborates with more than 200 customers presented by top-100 outstanding national leaders and top-200 of the most profitable companies in Russia. Today NVision Group unites 500 professionals with 250 certificates of worldwide vendors, including those companies that are presented in CIS uniquely by NVision Group. www.nvisiongroup.ru/eng
About Quobis Networks
Quobis Networks is a leading Spanish integration company serving business and public market needs as a solution partner. Quobis Networks has a highly skilled team, with strong experience in the fields of secured converged networking and VoIP technology, providing end-to-end communications solutions working with the world’s leading technology companies to deliver excellent service & support infrastructure.
Quobis Networks has its corporate headquarters in Vigo and a branch office in Madrid (Spain) .
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