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05-06-2010, 09:41 PM
Sonus Networks and CenturyLink just announced the successful completion of the first phase of CenturyLink's IP voice infrastucture using Sonus' IP communications technology. The upgrade brings traffic from CenturyLink's voice network onto one secure and easy to manage IP network.
The network was built in less than four months and leveraged Sonus Networks media gateways, policy management and session border control solutions in 22 cities across the United States. The move takes advantage of CenturyLink's extensive fiber backbone to incorporate both legacy TDM and IP voice traffic on the same infrastructure.
"We expect to achieve cost savings and efficiency gains from our new IP core network as well as from the ability to centrally manage our voice traffic across our fiber backbone," said Matt Beal, chief technology officer at CenturyLink in a release. "It will also enable us to provide more advanced services to meet our customers' future needs."
For more:
- see the release here (http://www.fiercetelecom.com/press_releases/centurylink-and-sonus-networks-achieve-successful-major-new-deployment-voice-over-ip-)
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The network was built in less than four months and leveraged Sonus Networks media gateways, policy management and session border control solutions in 22 cities across the United States. The move takes advantage of CenturyLink's extensive fiber backbone to incorporate both legacy TDM and IP voice traffic on the same infrastructure.
"We expect to achieve cost savings and efficiency gains from our new IP core network as well as from the ability to centrally manage our voice traffic across our fiber backbone," said Matt Beal, chief technology officer at CenturyLink in a release. "It will also enable us to provide more advanced services to meet our customers' future needs."
For more:
- see the release here (http://www.fiercetelecom.com/press_releases/centurylink-and-sonus-networks-achieve-successful-major-new-deployment-voice-over-ip-)
Related articles:
Qwest shareholders want more money from CenturyLink merger (http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/qwest-shareholders-want-more-money-centurylink-merger/2010-05-03)
Sonus conducts yet another round of layoffs (http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/sonus-conducts-yet-another-round-layoffs/2009-08-17)
IntelePeer expanding Sonus-based network (http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/intelepeer-expanding-sonus-based-network/2009-07-16)
Will Sonus get Nortel's VoIP assets? (http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/will-sonus-get-nortels-voip-assets/2009-08-20)
More... (http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/centurylink-uses-sonus-ip-comm-voice-network-upgrade/2010-05-05?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss)