New media processing boards and software support SIGTRAN, BICC and
PCI Express
NMS Communications today unveiled new SS7 hardware and software
solutions to help developers meet increasing demand for
revenue-generating IP-based services like VoIP, mobile video and voice
SMS. The new NMS products – SS7 5.0 software
and TX 5000E Series hardware – support the
SIGTRAN and BICC protocols and the PCI Express form factor. This will
now allow network operators to migrate from legacy time division
multiplexing (TDM) networks to next-generation IP networks.
The new products extend the NMS Open Access family of SS7-enabled media
boards and software to give users a single development platform with the
ease of use and flexibility developers need to create applications that
will work on both legacy TDM and IP networks. The software and hardware
reduce the custom coding, costly testing and other headaches developers
typically face while building services like PSTN and IP call centers,
ringback tones, interactive voice response and video gateway-video
play/record.
Homisco Inc., which provides pre-paid and postpaid billing, messaging
and interactive voice response (IVR) applications and services to
network carriers worldwide, plans to migrate its services to IP using NMS’s
SIGTRAN offering. A longtime NMS customer, Homisco places a high premium
on NMS product reliability and the ease of integrating them into Homisco
applications.
“We’re implementing
the new NMS software because our customers are starting to run
softswitches and they are asking us to have SIGTRAN solutions,”
said Homisco Product Manager Jim Murphy. “We
have a long history with NMS, so we were confident going with them
again. Reliability is critical to us because we have equipment installed
all over the world. I need to know that a board isn’t
going to fail in Cambodia because I can’t get
anyone there fast to fix it. We don’t have to
worry about that with NMS. They are proactive and send patches before
our customers even experience an issue.”
The new SS7-enabled software and hardware solution delivers a range of
time-, effort- and cost-saving benefits:
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eased migration – allows existing
NMS customers to easily support SS7 over IP, and/or migrate to the PCI
Express form factor.
