Voice Solutions

AS.TONE is a complete range of VoIP solutions for wireline and wireless Operators. Voice traffic is still the main “killer” application for most operators. It generates the most revenues and the most earnings. The growth in broadband services over the past few years on a world-wide scale, has opened up the market for operators, new and old, to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services across their network.

According to Infonetics, the number of residential and SoHo (Small Office Home Office) VoIP subscribers will skyrocket to over 131 million by 2009 in North America, Europe, and Asia, up from 24 million in 2005. On the business side, according to Frost & Sullivan, hosted IP telephony through IP Centrex types services are likely to account for an increasing share of business lines, due to cost savings and access to productivity-enhancing tools.

Airspan offers a suite of iTONE solutions to enable wired and wireless operators to offer competitive VoIP services to both business and consumers. The heart of the system is the iTONE Softswitch, an IMS-ready system, scalable up to 300,000 subscribers and 30,000 simultaneous calls. Airspan offers a “pay-as-you-grow” model, meaning an ISP only pays for the subscribers once they have them and not before. The iTONE Softswitch includes extensive Class 5 subscriber features, Class 4 transit services and IP Centrex for business customers. It is completely SIP-based, though fully supports all internet telephony protocols including SIP, H.323 and MGCP.

To facilitate easy deployment of VoIP services for operators, Airspan offers the iTONE 500 package, which provide all the products, features and services an operator needs to enable VoIP services to their customers. The solution is a complete package for ISP’s & ITSP’s who want to offer a competitive VoIP service to their subscribers, or alternatively for Providers who want to offer a hosted VoIP service to other ISP’s.

For wireless operators, Airspan offers VoiceMAX, to enable admission control over the wireless network. Admission control enables an operator to control what type of traffic is allowed on a particular network or segment of a network. Call admission control is a known term in the VoIP world as it prevents oversubscription of VoIP traffic. But, how do you provide admission control over a WiMAX or wireless IP-based network? The solution is VoiceMAX from Airspan.