Nortel Raises the Bar in Carrier VoIP Softswitch Market at Supercomm2009

Nortel CVAS Reduces Service Provider Cost of Ownership and Increases
Revenue with New Hardware and Software Enhancements to
Industry-Leading CS 2000 Carrier IP Softswitch
 
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS--(Marketwire - October 17, 2009) - Solidifying its
market-leading position in the carrier VOIP and Softswitch market and
continuing its drive to help service providers boost network
efficiencies, lower total cost of ownership and reduce subscriber
churn, Nortel(1) (OTCBB: NRTLQ) Carrier VoIP and Application
Solutions (CVAS) unveiled the latest enhancements of its state-of-the
art Communication Server 2000 (CS 2000) carrier IP softswitch at the
Supercomm 2009 tradeshow.
 
Nortel CVAS has consistently ranked as the number one supplier in the
carrier VOIP and softswitch market since 2002. This success is the
result of proven and leading edge VOIP solutions: Business voice and
multimedia solution, Consumer voice and multimedia solution, Transit
and Multimedia Interconnect solution, and the Class 5 solution. These
solutions have been successfully deployed across the globe to satisfy
the needs of both the small and the large Service Providers
deployments. The solutions are media agnostic, are fully featured
with full PSTN transparency, can be deployed in either fully SIP or
hybrid environments, are bundled with key capabilities to meet all
VOIP networking and management requirements, and are fully tested out
to the end points.
 
Nortel is introducing a new hardware platform, called the CS 2000a,
which boosts service providers' capacity in a smaller footprint,
provides up to a 70 percent reduction in footprint and a 50 percent
power savings compared to currently available platform options.
Nortel's CS 2000a enables service providers to handle peak call
periods more efficiently because it supports call capacity in excess
of 5 million Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCA).
 
CS 2000a leverages Nortel's widely deployed second generation carrier
grade ATCA-based hardware platform coupled with its industry leading
middleware platform -the Versatile Service Engine (VSE). Nortel's VSE
platform is application agnostic and delivers a number of
differentiators over and above ATCA platforms, such as easy migration
of applications onto the platform while at the same time leveraging
tight integration and coherent system management to deliver an
industry leading proven six 9's of reliability..
 
Nortel is also introducing the next software release, (I)CVM 14 of
the CS 2000, which will unleash a powerful suite of advanced SIP
applications that unify the communications experience for
subscribers. These new SIP applications increase the service
provider's competitive advantage by allowing subscribers to
communicate and collaborate with greater ease, flexibility and
efficiency.
 
"Service providers around the globe depend on Nortel's
industry-leading CVAS solutions and these latest enhancements are
proof of our continued investment to equip service providers with the
means to improve network efficiencies, revenue potential and
subscriber loyalty," said Samih Elhage, president CVAS, Nortel.
"Nortel CVAS has a commanding first place leadership in the global
carrier VOIP and softswitch market and we are making a quantum leap
with the CS 2000 hardware and software enhancements introduced today.
These enhancements mark our commitment to give service providers more
network capacity, scalability and the power to deliver advanced SIP
applications to subscribers."
 
Highlights of the new CS 2000 hardware and software enhancements
include:
 
CS 2000a, based on Nortel's carrier grade open-standards
AdvancedTCA(TM) technology, helps service providers deal with OPEX
challenges of today by providing call capacities in excess of 5
million BHCA, up to a 70 percent reduction in floorspace, and reduced
services costs. Additional capacity can be added simply by enabling
additional software RTU's or through the addition of blade pairs
within the ATCA shelf which helps eliminate the need for costly
central office infrastructure upgrades. CS 2000a also allows service
providers to perform integrated remote patching and upgrades across
the platform and it's applications reduce costly operational
expenses. The greater degree of hardware integration reduces the
amount of cabling and on-sight installation effort and cuts
deployment timelines up to six weeks.
 
(I)CVM release 14 software features allowing service providers to
deliver a wide variety of new SIP business applications including a
Hosted Call Center feature for SIP terminals/clients; SIP mobile UC
clients for easier end-user migration to SIP; extension of
multimedia, capabilities to subscribers behind SIP business trunks;
support of DECT SIP terminals for residential services; remote
provisioning of SIP terminals for faster deployments; and other OAM
features to help carriers reduce costs. Nortel's CS 2000 (I)CVM
release 14 software will be available on Nortel's CS 2000a and
previously deployed CS2000 hardware platforms.
 
Nortel's latest CS 2000 hardware and software enhancements are
expected to be available in the second quarter of 2010. They will be
demonstrated at Nortel's Supercomm booth (#2120) in Chicago this
week. For more information on Nortel at Supercomm, visit
www.nortel.com/events.
 
Nortel has shipped more than 115 million Carrier VoIP and Multimedia
ports to more than 350 wireline and wireless carriers globally.
Nortel CVAS has customer deployments in all continents with leading
carriers and has been consistently ranked as the number one supplier
in the carrier VoIP and softswitch market since 2002. In addition,
Nortel provides VoIP solutions to two thirds of IDC's worldwide
listing of top 20 carriers (by revenue).
 
About Nortel
 
Nortel delivers communications capabilities that make the promise of
Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation
technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks,
support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's
technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to
efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and
connecting people to the information they need, when they need it.
For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For
the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
 
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