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EVOX Selects Sonus Session Border Controllers to Expand VoIP Services in Hard-to-Reach Areas of Africa
WESTFORD, Mass. --(Business Wire)--
Sonus
Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a global
leader in SIP communications, today announced that EVOX Trading, a
leading telecommunications provider delivering services across Africa,
has selected the Sonus SBC 5200 to secure its network border, deliver
voice termination services and provide interconnect capabilities to its
carrier partners. With the deployment of the SBC 5200, EVOX will
immediately increase its service capacity by 40 percent, enabling them
to deliver communication access in some of Africa's fastest growing
markets.
The uptake of VoIP, which has been deregulating across many African
countries since mid-2000, is often linked to growing economies with the
delivery of advanced voice services and more cost effective access to
rural and under-served areas. EVOX found that countries across Africa
were aggressively seeking more reliable, scalable and higher performing
VoIP and SIP services. As a result, EVOX sought a new platform to help
them meet this growing requirement.
EVOX chose the SBC 5200 because the solution addressed the
next-generation needs of VoIP and SIP communications with security,
media switching and transcoding services in a single scalable device.
This infrastructure will also provide an intelligent SIP interconnection
capability between EVOX and their carrier partner networks. The SBC 5200
supports up to 64,000 sessions on a single server and provides advanced
routing and integrated transcoding capability.
The Sonus SBC portfolio is the fastest growing on the market and is
positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Session
Border Controllers," published October 9, 2012 by Gartner (News - Alert), Inc.
Quotes:
"We have seen growing demand for next generation VoIP and SIP services
in Africa and we chose Sonus to provide us with the secure, reliable,
scalable solution that doing business across the continent demands,"
said Romain BOULET, sales director, EVOX. "The performance and
flexibility of the Sonus solution means we can provide new services and
greater capacity to customers and partners in the region and help
accelerate Africa as an emerging market."
"Africa is a rapidly growing market, leap-frogging 'legacy' technologies
to take advantage of the cost avings and enhanced services that can be
enabled with VoIP and SIP," said Serge Adam, vice president of EMEA at
Sonus. "The Sonus SBC portfolio is the fastest growing on the market and
serves as a foundation of advanced technology growth as EVOX ignites the
burgeoning African market."
Other Facts:
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The SBC 5200 has been performance verified by Miercom. As part of the
testing, the SBC 5200 successfully registered 256,000 user
authenticated IADs in 16 minutes at a rate of 550 registrations per
second during a simulated metro area outage and recovery scenario. To
access the Miercom report visit www.sonus.net/miercom
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The Sonus SBC 5100 and SBC 5200 are qualified with Microsoft (News - Alert) Lync
Server 2010
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The SBC 5200 received the "2012 NGN Leadership Award," presented by
the TMC publications INTERNET TELEPHONY and Next Gen Mobility
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EVOX, headquartered in Paris, is a leading service provider in the
wholesale carrier market delivering voice services in over 20
countries in Africa
Additional Resources:
Tags/Keywords:
Sonus, SONS, EVOX, France, Africa, SBC, SBC 5200, session border
controller, SIP, SIP trunking, IP, mobile voice, MVNO, IT cost savings,
secure VoIP, network border, SIP-based solutions, VoIP, interconnect,
quality of service, firewall
About Sonus:
Sonus helps the world's leading communications service providers and
enterprises embrace the next generation of SIP-based solutions including
VoIP, video and Unified Communications (News - Alert) through secure, reliable and
scalable IP networks. With customers around the globe and 15 years of
experience transforming networks to IP, Sonus has enabled service
providers and enterprises to capture and retain users and generate
significant ROI. Sonus products include session border controllers,
policy/routing servers, subscriber feature servers and media and
signaling gateways. Sonus products are supported by a global services
team with experience in design, deployment and maintenance of some of
the world's largest and most complex IP networks. For more information,
visit www.sonus.net
or call 1-855-GO-SONUS.
About EVOX:
EVOX started its operation in 2008 as a niche carrier focused on African
market and today has an annual turnover of more than 31 million Euros,
delivering over 200 million minutes in the carrier wholesale market.
With its head office in Paris and POPs in Paris Telehouse 2 and
Globalswitch, EVOX is delivering voice services into over 20 countries
in Africa including Algeria, Morocco, DRC, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea
and Mauritius.
Important Information Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
The information in this release may contain certain forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995 regarding future events that involve risks and
uncertainties. Although Sonus believes that its expectations are based
on reasonable assumptions, readers are cautioned that these
forward-looking statements are only predictions and are subject to
inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are
difficult to predict. All statements other than statements of historical
facts contained in this report are forward-looking statements. Our
actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by the
forward-looking statements. For further information regarding risks and
uncertainties associated with Sonus' business, please refer to the
"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations" and "Risk Factors" sections of Sonus' filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements
represent Sonus' views only as of the date on which such statement is
made, and should not be relied upon as representing Sonus' views as of
any subsequent date. While Sonus may elect to update forward-looking
statements at some point, Sonus specifically disclaims any obligation to
do so, except as required by law.
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