Products for operators and service providers
Media gateways and key constituents for service delivery platforms
The service that's provided
Operators and service providers are often indistinguishable; differences being only a matter of scale or divisional separation; CLEC or long distance carrier, national or international telco, wholesale or retail. However, in these days of fourth generation networks (the evolution of NGN) and Web2.0, with ISPs and ASPs also prominent, all boundaries are blurred.
Today, there are many operators offering advanced wholesale services, terminating voice traffic via dedicated IP-MPLS backbones to gateway locations worldwide. Their ASP customers offer enhanced services over the open architecture of these SIP-based networks. SIP service providers also offer next-generation VoIP termination to the PSTN - hosted VoIP solutions and SIP Trunking - for high volume business users worldwide.
Business service providers
A further category of service providers hosts business communications services. Good examples being reservationless conferencing, hosted contact centres, or broadcast fax and notification services. Importantly, all service providers deploy innovative and unified services across IP, PSTN and 3G-324M networks. These can be for fixed and mobile (wireless) subscribers or mission critical business applications, helping to enhance productivity and profitability.
Your demanding needs
Operators and service providers are concerned with making services easier to use, driving user adoption, ensuring continuous growth in a highly competitive business environment, maintaining market share and increasing operational profits. Their demanding requirements include resilience and redundancy for high availability, failover mechanisms, and OAM&P with SNMP and peripheral management interfaces.
Most carriers prefer integrated systems that are scalable and standards-based (SIP, IMS, 3GPP, etc.), offering single platform architecture, with inherent redundancy and resilience. Aculab's GroomerII is such an example. It is a signalling and media gateway appliance that enables the delivery of revenue generating IP-based services into SS7 and legacy CAS/PRI networks. Find out more about GroomerII.
Partner alternatives
Telcos and operators are also consumers of market leading service delivery platforms such as those offered by the Aculab community of developers, integrators and equipment manufacturers. So, if you're looking for an alternative approach, view our solutions pages for an appreciation of what our customers and partners have produced. You can also check out the partners' pages if you are looking for a platform or solution vendor.
Self development
If you are developing your own service delivery platform, you will need reliable, feature rich media processing products to provide the low level functionality and network connectivity managed by your high availability applications and middleware. Aculab's enabling technology products are renowned worldwide for quality and reliability, which together with their capabilities and performance, give you a significant business advantage.
Aculab's product options
So, if you need gateways, hardware, signalling stacks (SIP, SS7 and SIGTRAN) and software to design and develop advanced, cost-effective multimedia systems, Aculab has something to offer. See the product links below for more ideas.
- Gateways and protocol conversion
- VoiceXML/CCXML interpreter
- SS7 and signalling
- IP boards and software
- Media processing
- TDM boards
If you'd like to discuss specific requirements, contact your Account Manager or send an email to sales@aculab.com and one of our representatives will contact you straightaway.
