Telephony Platforms enable fixed-mobile convergance.
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Cirpack VoIP softswitch and IP Centrex platforms enable telecom service providers to promote combined fixed and mobile telephony services. Without forcing users to change mobile handsets, service offers one phone number and one voicemail box shared by cellular and broadband IP phones. Modular, scalable public telephony switch incorporates all software and hardware components required to connect to and interwork with legacy telephony systems telecom service providers are operating.
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Thomson Launches Mobile IP Centrex Application for its Cirpack Softswitch
Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE; TMS) announces the launch of Fixed-Mobile Convergence capabilities for its Cirpack VoIP softswitch and IP Centrex platforms. Telecom service providers can now promote innovative telephony including the best of fixed and mobile services, to create new opportunities for increased revenues from enterprise sales.
Mobile operators using Thomson's Cirpack IP Centrex platform can start marketing global telephony solutions, offering all the features of hosted PBX solutions, without forcing users to change their mobile handsets. The result is a single service with one phone number and one voicemail box shared by the customer's cellular and broadband IP phones. Subscribers can now enjoy a rich set of features across both devices, including simultaneous ring, call filtering, extension dialling, multi-party conferencing, hunt groups, etc. Cirpack's Mobile IP Centrex application is currently deployed in trials with several GSM operators in Europe.
"By integrating existing mobile terminals with the IP Centrex services, Cirpack's fixed-mobile convergence solutions provide a strategic advantage to companies, improving employee productivity," explains Jean-Pierre Dumolard, General Manager of Thomson's NGN Business Unit. "Combined with Cirpack's support for ISDN and IP PBX, our Mobile IP Centrex solution is a great asset for telecom operators to launch comprehensive services to business users."
Thomson's Cirpack platform is a highly modular and scalable public telephony switch, incorporating all the software and hardware components required to connect to and interwork with the legacy telephony systems telecom service providers are operating. It has native support for protocols used in GSM infrastructures, enabling seamless integration with existing HLR, MSC and Intelligent Network platforms to ease the introduction of innovative services that also leverage Cirpack's VoIP and IP Centrex capabilities.
About Thomson
Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) provides services, systems and technology to help its Media & Entertainment clients - content creators, content distributors and users of its technology - realize their business goals and optimize their performance in a rapidly changing technology environment. The Group is the preferred partner to the Media & Entertainment Industries through its Technicolor, Grass Valley, RCA, and Thomson brands. For more information: www.thomson.net
Thomson's Access Platforms and Gateways (AP&G) activity, part of the company's systems and equipment division, is a leading supplier of digital entertainment receivers to the world's major satellite and terrestrial broadcasters, cable operators and telecom service providers. It offers a full range of digital set-top boxes, phones, broadband modems and gateways with modular VoIP, IPTV and wireless capabilities. Through its Next Generation Networks business unit, Cirpack, it is also one of the leading suppliers of softswitch solutions to migrate telecom infrastructures to NGN (Next Generation Networks) and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) enabling massive deployments of broadband telephony and IP Centrex, for instance. Products are marketed under the RCA, THOMSON, SpeedTouch and CIRPACK brands. You can find more information on AP&G's products at www.thomson-broadband.com and www.cirpack.com
