line, wireless and cable ( www.cisco.com –408-526-4000). lay, telephony signaling and G.168-compliant echo cancellation
Citel Technologies: This Seattle, Washington and Not- ( www.excelswitching.com –508-862-3000).
tingham, UK-based IP telephony converged solutions provid- Intel: Santa Clara, California-based Intel positions its Net-
er’s enterprise voice gateway offerings center on their Handset Structure PBX-IP media gateway as allowing a well-planned,
Gateways and PBX Gateways families. With a 24-port 1U phased migration to an IP network, making it a smart solution
Rack-mount box form factor, the CITELlink SIP gateway is for enterprises not yet ready or willing to completely abandon
positioned to integrate existing and diverse legacy equipment their investment in legacy PBX equipment. With 8 ports per
from multiple vendors across multiple locations into a unified desktop unit, NetStructure offers support for Voice and fax over
and seamless enterprise voice network. Citel’s RemoteConneX IP support, enhanced voice processing, hot swap and DHCP
PBXgateway is a Distributed Voice Gateway designed to deliver ( www.intel.com –408-765-8080).
PBX features and functionality to analog Lucent Technologies: Murray Hill, New
and mobile phones ( www.citel.com –888- On the carrier Jersey-based Lucent offers two enterprise
^{454-7979). level as well as at voice gateway solutions. For larger enter-} Excel Switching: The Excel IMG 1010 prises which require nine or more ISDN
is this Hyannis, Massachusetts-based the largest enter- PRIs, Lucent sells the APX1000 Universal
networking productssupplier’score VoIP prise deployments, Gateway. For smaller enterprises, Lucent _{media gateway product line. The IMG markets the Mediant 2000 VoIP Media}
is positioned as unique in its ability to the most sophisti- Gateway. Lucent pitches the APX1000 key
serve as an SS7 signaling server and me- cated media gate- assets as non-blocking performance with
dia gateway with media processing capa- full 672/720 channels of T1/E1 traffic. Its
bility all in one. The gateway supports way functions are multiple processor design delivers high
up to 768 channels in a 1U footprint that essential. throughput; it also has fully redundant
can be racked and stacked. Version 4. 3, and load balancing power supplies with
the newest build of IMG 1010 at press time, adds an RFC 3261- shelf controller monitoring. The Mediant 2000 is being mar-
compliant SIP stack that allows the device to function as a User keted by Lucent as a “cost-effective, small scale gateway intel-
Agent in next-gen Voice over Broadband, IP Centrex, and SIP ligently packaged in a 1U chassis”. Lucent offers enterprises
Wholesale opportunities. four sizing options for one, two, four or eight T1/E1 spans for
Also new in Version 4. 3, the RFC 3372-compliant SIP-T al- independent, simultaneous VoIP calls ( www.lucent.com –908-
lows parameters to be seamlessly mapped from TDM to IP net- 582-3000).
works. In October 2005, Excel Switching’s parent EAS Group NMS Communications: A Framingham, Massachusetts-based
acquired Brooktrout Technology, known for its TR2500 scal- mobile voice applications and solutions service provider. NMS’
able board-based gateway platform. The TR2500 can provide AccessGate 1000 series of radio access network optimizers
a broad range of voice processing and signaling functionality, are deployed in mobile operator networks worldwide and is
with on-board vocoders, RTP packetization, fax and DTMF re- designed to optimize the transport of GSM voice and data traf-
fic over wireless networks complemented by a new element
management system, AccessEMS, which enables performance
and security management, historical trend analysis and capacity
planning, configuration management, and real-time monitor-
ing of all AccessGate systems deployed in a mobile network.
The pitch to mobile operators is that the AccessGate solu-
tion will enable them to reduce operational expenses and also
roll out new services to subscribers more quickly and cost-
effectively ( www.nmscommunications.com –508-271-1000).
Quintum: Tenor GateKeeper is Eaton-town, New Jersey-
based VoIP solutions provider Quintum Technologies’ sig-
nature enterprise Voice gateway product. H.323 v2 industry
standard compliant, it offers advanced call routing and admin-
istration for all VoIP network endpoints and, with a scalable
distributed architecture, the ability to process up to 800 voice
calls simultaneously. Tenor GateKeeper also supports static
routing to provide connectivity to endpoints that are not part
of VoIP networks. The advanced call routing enables the Tenor
GateKeeper to provide load balancing among multiple gateways.
The Tenor GateKeeper is also capable of authentication/autho-
rization for all calls in a VoIP network ( www.quintum.com –732-
460-9000).