Circuit and packet voice solutions
We are a leader in the development and deployment of highly scalable circuit switched and secure voice over packet solutions such as voice over IP for wireline and wireless service providers around the world. Our voice over packet solutions offer service providers opportunities for new revenue sources and sustainable operating and capital cost reduction, as well as high levels of reliability and network resiliency. Our solutions include the following:
•Our wireline voice over packet network solutions for service providers, which include softswitches and media gateways. The portfolio provides the complete range of voice over packet solutions, including local, toll,
•Our multimedia communications services portfolio allows our customers to deploy new, enhanced multimedia services, including video, collaboration and personal agent services. The portfolio includes a session initiation
•Our DMS portfolio is a family of digital,
•Our Nortel Networks Developers Partner Program helps to drive the interoperability of our voice over IP multimedia communications and DMS portfolios with third party vendors including infrastructure and application companies.
These solutions work alone or in combination with each other to provide traditional voice services, advanced packet voice services and enhanced multimedia services to service providers around the world.
Data networking and security solutions
We offer a wide range of data networking (packet switching and routing) solutions to our service provider customers. Our wide area network, or WAN, solutions and IP service routers enable our service provider customers to offer connectivity solutions and high value services to both enterprises and residential customers. Connectivity solutions include packet services such as: frame relay; Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM; Ethernet; and IP access for digital subscriber line and cable users.
Product development
Research and development investments are focused on creating new and improving existing,
•Enhancements to our voice over packet solutions that will allow service providers to connect any business telephone system, using standard voice over IP protocols, into a common dialing plan with connectivity to the public switched telephone network. Additional enhancements to our packet voice solutions will continue to focus on interoperability with other manufacturers’ equipment, including gateway and integrated access device manufacturers, as well as on meeting the needs of the Asian and European markets. We continue to make improvements to our softswitch portfolio by utilizing the latest commercial technology to provide our customers with converged wireline and wireless service support, superior application choices, integrated network management and linear scalable capacity.
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