TMC covers the SIP Trunking industry, and wrapping up the news from this week, Paula Bernier (News - Alert) reported that circuit-switched networks may still be in service, but when it comes to policing such infrastructure there’s nobody home. That’s the word from Stephen Canton, CEO of iCore Networks.

In the past, Canton says, telco technicians needed a federal ID just to get access to circuits in offices across the U.S. Today, he continues, it’s common practice to prop open with a brick the doors to those network assets.

Canton goes on to refer to the Verizon (News - Alert) labor disputes, noting that folks that make $75,000 a year plus $50,000 in benefits are being replaced by less expensive people that can maintain IP-based networks at a fraction of the cost.

The bottom line, he says, is that the circuit-switched wireline infrastructure in the U.S. on which 96 percent of domestic companies rely is no longer being supported by incumbent LECs like Verizon. That said, he continues, it’s critically important for companies using circuit-switched technology to understand that it’s in their interest to move as expeditiously as possible to IP infrastructure for quality, service, savings and security.

Also TMC’s Rajani Baburajan wrote that XOP Networks, a producer of value added service platforms and audio conference bridges, announced the launch of its Session Initiation Protocol (News - Alert)-based multi-application platform.

The new multi-application platform is designed to support voicemail with find-me, audio conferencing, enhanced firebar, switch announcements, mass notification, Web conferencing and video conferencing applications.

“We are very excited to introduce SIP based Universal Service Node platform. Several of our IOC customers deploy separate platforms for each application,” said Sudhir Gupta, CEO of XOP Networks, in a statement. “With our multi-application USN platform they will be able to deploy multiple applications on one platform, significantly reducing their CapEx and OpEx.”

Phone companies and independent operating companies are migrating their telephony network from TDM architecture to SIP/VoIP based packet architecture. As TDM based central office switches are being replaced by SIP/VoIP based Soft-switches, existing value added services must be enhanced to keep customer satisfaction.

And Integra Telecom (News - Alert) has earned Panasonic’s Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking Interoperability certification with the KX-NCP500/1000 and KX-TDE 100/200/600 business phone systems, Anuradha Shukla reported.

Integra Telecom provides business grade networking, communications and cloud solutions. This milestone will ensure that Panasonic business telephone systems work seamlessly with Integra’s SIP Solutions SIP Trunking Service.

Integra will now be able to provide customers with several benefits including more efficient use of bandwidth by combining voice and data networks onto a single service.

It can now accomplish dynamic bandwidth allocation so that more bandwidth is available when voice calls are not in use. Integra will also be able to offer multiple compression options that place more calls over the same bandwidth without any requirement for additional circuits.

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