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Veraz announced it has a call center compression solution using VoIP. The solution is based on Veraz’s I-Gate 4000 family of media gateways that can compress at ratios up to 12 to 1 for voice, enabling major savings in bandwidth costs while maintaining high toll-quality voice expected by multi-national corporations. Moreover, internal redundancy features guarantees the continuation of voice calls, fax and modem traffic under any network or system failure offering with five-nines system availability demanded from carrier-grade systems. Finally, the in-band management of the multi-site I-Gate 4000 gateways from a centralized site allows for significant savings on operational costs.

Why this is important? Veraz is company that also focuses on service providers.

Yesterday Level 3 withdrew its forbearance petition. As you may recall the petition was originally put forward as a way to ensure that Level 3 would not have to pay access charges for terminating certain types of VoIP traffic (read more on the Level 3 FCC Buzz Page).

Recently Kevin Martin (Kevin Martin buzz page) became head of the FCC and as such there seems to be a level of anxiety as  to what the response will be. According to Level 3’s CEO, Jim Crowe, "Level 3 has withdrawn the petition in deference to the Commission. Given the appointment of new leadership only three business days before the statutory deadline for ruling on the petition, we determined it was inappropriate to ask the agency to resolve this important issue in the timeframe required by law.

Please read this article by clicking on the link. I posted much of it here because it is so good and to be honest, anyone in telecom needs to be aware of these issues. I have some contact info listed at the bottom in red if you are interested in having your voice heard on this matter.

SBC to state: Kill rate regs

Seeks to scrap phone price controls; sweetens offer with 3-year freeze

By Julie Johnsson
March 21, 2005

SBC Communications Inc. is pushing Springfield lawmakers to approve sweeping deregulation that would remove all price controls on local telephone service in Illinois.

A bill introduced by Sen. James Clayborne Jr., D-East St. Louis, would effectively gut the Illinois Commerce Commission's (ICC) oversight of the rates SBC offers customers and competitors. State regulators would still have the authority to penalize the Baby Bell for shortfalls in customer service, however.


To sweeten the deal, SBC proposes a three-year freeze on the price of basic phone service for consumers who purchase only a dial tone from the Baby Bell or minor add-ons, such as caller identification.

Volo made a splash today with its new service which is part of its VoiceOne Information Services (VOIS) product. The service is called i-911 and it uses the National Emergency Number Association or NENA's XML standards, the i-911 service emulates the wireline 911 environment with the delivery of accurate location information and call back numbers.

A key feature of the i-911 service is that it can route emergency calls for the customer whose location is constant and the customer who often moves the location of his VoIP device. Customers can update their new location information in real time, so that their i-911 call will be delivered to the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) in the new location. Also, the i-911 service provides PSAPs the information they need to dispatch emergency services in the event that an emergency call is disconnected or the caller cannot speak.