MediaRing VoizBridge
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Overview
Key Features
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Overview

With recent advances in technology and the abundance of IP bandwidth, the prospect of sending voice over IP networks creates amazing potential for carriers and end users. The advantages of carrying voice over IP include efficiencies of combined voice/data over one network, reduced interconnect tariff costs, bandwidth savings, advanced IP-based services and savings on infrastructure and support costs. As carriers transition their voice networks to VoIP, they are faced with issues of network security, scalability and protocol inter-working of one IP network to another IP network.

MediaRing’s VoizBridge is a proven carrier-class software platform that provides carriers with a cost-effective, flexible and secured means to peer with other H.323 and SIP networks.

Image: Carrier Network - Without MediaRing VoizBridge
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VoizBridge supports flexible internetworking between Cisco, Clarent, VocalTec and other H.323 gateways, gatekeepers and softswitches. This protects carriers’ investment in legacy VoIP gateways while opening the opportunity to expand with new gateway providers. It also offers carriers the flexibility in peering partners who may have a variety of gateways.

VoizBridge enables a graceful migration from H.323 to SIP, by providing H.323 to SIP translation capabilities, so that calls from a SIP source can be terminated on any existing H.323 network. This allows carriers to slowly upgrade their VoIP network as needed, while maximising their return on investment in H.323 gateway equipment.

VoizBridge implements IP masking for both media and signaling packets to hide network topology. Carriers can also administer strict call control over their networks using VoizBridge’s device access authentication and access lists. VoizBridge’s ability to provide VoIP security becomes critical when carriers start offering services to the enterprise and consumer market.

VoizBridge also features centralized collection of call details records with RADIUS support, interoperability with Open Settlement Protocol (OSP) Server, comprehensive call routing rules for optimal route selection, easy-to-use web-based GUI for configuration management, failover and redundant configurations.

Key Features

·         Carrier-class IP to IP interconnectivity. Interconnects N to N disparate networks for delivery of voice and fax services.

·         VoIP vendor & device interoperability. Supports internetworking between Cisco, Clarent, Vocaltec and other major H.323 gateways, gatekeepers and softswitches.

·         Multi-protocol Support. SIP, H.323 and SIP-H.323 inter-working.

·         Secure interconnection via IP masking. Source and destination VoIP devices only see the IP address of VoizBridge for both signaling and media streams. Networks are kept separate from one another; changes in one network are transparent to another.

·         Centralized and accurate collection of Call Details Records.

·         Centralized and flexible control of call routing decision. VoizBridge also supports alternate/failover routing; it holds a call until the call is successfully completed or all route options are exhausted.

·         User-friendly, web-based GUI provisioning tool to manage and configure all VoIP networks participating in the interconnection.

·         Distributed topology along with load balancing and fault tolerance features.

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