Sonus Networks (News - Alert) has announced that it joined the Avaya DevConnect program to rapidly deploy and use SIP-based IP business trunks.

 

Sonus Networks provides network transformation via IP communications technology. Sonus IP Business Trunks replace legacy TDM voice circuits enabling carriers and enterprises to connect disparate locations, deploy new services and reduce costs by eliminating duplicate PRI circuits for voice and data.

Sonus will be testing its SIP based IP business trunk interoperability with Avaya’s (News - Alert) Communication Manager and IP Office Platforms. The process will include the encryption of both the audio and signaling paths so that carriers and enterprise customers can benefit from the security features of the Sonus Network Border Switch (NBS (News - Alert)) and Avaya’s Communication Manager. The testing of the industry standard SRTP and TLS security in the connection will also ensure that privacy can be maintained across an IP based voice connection.

“Service providers need to react quickly to the evolving needs of their enterprise customers, while maintaining operating margins in a pressured economy. Sonus is working with market leaders like Avaya to pre-test that our respective business solutions can be rapidly deployed together to meet customer needs,” said Shailin Sehgal (News - Alert), vice president, marketing and product management at Sonus Networks.

“These collaborations can help to reduce a carrier’s overall cost and time to service. For any carrier or operator looking to upgrade their network, reducing the time the revenue is critical.”

Avaya has built a community for promoting development, compliance-testing and co-marketing of innovative solutions which are compatible with standards-based Avaya solutions with its DevConnect program.

Members of the program are well known in various technologies like IP telephony, contact centers and mobility applications and they help companies leverage the value of multi-vendor networks and transform voice into an intelligent business application.

 

Eric Rossman (News - Alert), vice president, developer relations and technical alliances at Avaya emphasized that development partners like Sonus Networks were instrumental in expanding the connectivity options given to customers.

 

 Employing the IP business trunks, Avaya is providing ways to change business operations to be competitive in the market place. Companies are able to use unified communications applications to make critical information available to both employees and customers irrespective of their location and methods of communication.