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Nokia increases scalability, resiliency, and functionality of IP Telephony portfolio
September 28, 1999
Nokia targets service providers looking beyond toll bypass to higher value sustainable markets such as IPCentrex
Nokia today announced numerous enhancements to its IP Telephony portfolio in the areas of scalability, resiliency and functionality. Service providers will now be able to offer multiple voice and FAX services including alternate long distance, virtual voice private networks, and IP Centrex all from a single platform.
Nokia's new distributed call processing server functionality will enable service providers to scale IP telephony implementations to meet both geographic and high user concentration requirements. Leveraging Nokia's unique distributed architecture, IP Telephony implementations will now scale to serve up to 120,000 client/gateway port connections. This same functionality will allow service providers to strategically place call processing components in geographical locations maximizing the resiliency of their networks.
The Nokia call processing server and back office elements will now be available on Sun Microsystems' family of telco ready, NEBS certified servers. The Sun(TM) Netra (TM) servers are powered by the Ultrasparc(TM) processor running the robust Solaris(TM) Operating Environment. The Netra servers are already widely adopted by service providers and have now been selected by Nokia as the platform of choice.
Nokia has further enhanced its call processing feature functionality to include several new centrex-like telephony features, including multi step call forwarding, conference calling, and browser configurable individual and user group features. The Nokia IPClient central administration server allows service providers to provision and manage devices and feature functionality including the administration of client device IP configurations.
"We are seeing many service providers looking beyond toll bypass to higher value sustainable markets," said Dan MacDonald, VP Marketing, Nokia Internet Communications "Nokia continues to enable these providers the ability to rapidly deploy services, with a specific focus on client oriented applications such as IPCentrex. These enhancements, together with our industry leading call processing and client portfolio further strengthens our market position.
This new functionality, all included in the Nokia's IP Telephony 4.0 release, will be commercially available in the 4th quarter of 1999.
Delivering Telephony Solutions for IP Networks
Nokia's complete IP Telephony solution - consisting of advanced call control, residential to carrier gateways, comprehensive portfolio of desktop client solutions and specialized service delivery technology enables Service Providers to quickly and easily provision new services including intelligent voice and fax services over geographically distributed, large-scale networks.
About Nokia
Nokia is paving the way to the mobile information society with its innovative products and solutions. Nokia is the leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks including related services. It also supplies multimedia terminals and computer displays. In 1998, net sales totaled EUR 13.3 billion (USD 15.7 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 51 000 people.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, Netra, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. UltraSPARC(TM) is a trademark or registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc
Contact information:
Laurie Armstrong, Nokia Internet Communications, Tel. +1 613 271 6756, laurie.armstrong@nokia.com
Dave Donahue, GCI Group, Tel. +1 415 974 6200, DDonahue@gcigroup.com
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