Optus offers IP voice gateway to VoIP operators

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:51

Business IT - Technology

Optus Wholesale & Satellite has launched a "business-grade VoIP IP gateway service". It enables VoIP service provider to deliver calls for termination on the PSTN and receive calls to their VoIP customer from the PSTN, as IP packets instead of traditional circuit-switched voice calls. According to Warren Hardy, managing director of Optus Wholesale & Satellite, "We are offering our wholesale customers two VoIP IP gateway services. The first caters to those customers that own their own platform to connect wireline phone calls to IP networks for VoIP, known as a softswitch, and the second for those that do not have their own platform."

Optus is partnering with Nortel Networks to offer the Nortel CS2K switch for customers with large call volumes and with Sun Microsystems for customers with low to medium call volumes. "Additionally, the IP carriage is provisioned by Optus' managed IP virtual private network," Hardy said.