Thomson's SoftSwitch Tops 4 Million VoIP Lines
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Thomson leads worldwide residential Voice over Broadband market with over 1 million new lines of its Cirpack telephony switch deployed in first half of 2006
Paris- September 27, 2006 - Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE; TMS) today announced that over 4 million of its Cirpack Class-5 subscriber lines are currently used in commercial service by telecom operators around the world with over 1 million new licences installed in the first half of 2006 alone. Thomson also deployed 2 million ports of its Cirpack trunking gateways to connect operators' IP networks to the PSTN.
Jean-Pierre Dumolard, General Manager of Thomson's Network Intelligence Solutions commented "We are continuing to deploy our Cirpack softswitch platform into new markets sectors and geographies. The first half of 2006 saw a number of firsts for us. We were the first to bring VoIP to Algeria, some countries in Central America and Ukraine and we led the way in deployment of Fixed-Mobile Convergence projects to be announced later this year. I was also pleased to see that market analysts iLocus credited us with 23% market share in Q2. The fact that our Cirpack MultiNode-B supports both with toll-grade quality and superior scalability might explain its tremendous success with operators and Internet service providers of all sizes."
The Thomson's Cirpack voice switching platform is being used by some 80 telecom operators and ISP in 30 countries, including several of the largest European VoIP service providers such as Free.fr and T-Online FRANCE as well as ISP subsidiaries of Telenor and Telekom Austria amongst others.
About Thomson - World leader in digital video technologies
Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) provides technology, services, and systems & equipment 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 softswitch solutions and IPTV service delivery platforms enable telecom operators to deploy broadband telephony, IPTV, IP Centrex, Triple Play and Fixed-Mobile Convergence services quickly and easily, with a seamless migration path to IMS/TISPAN architecture. Thomson's CIRPACK softswitches have already been used to deploy over 4 million VoIP lines and are currently world leaders on the Voice over Broadband residential market, delivering primary line telephony services on a large scale. Thomson's SmartVision IPTV platforms offer rich video services over fixed and mobile networks. Both are closely integrated with Thomson's wide range of digital set-top boxes, phones, broadband modems and gateways for the easy delivery of unique user experiences. With over 100 telco, broadcaster and internet service provider customers in 35 countries, Thomson's network intelligence solutions are at the heart of next generation networks worldwide. For more information, please visit www.cirpack.com and www.thomson.net.
For more information contact:
Joanna Pays
International PR Manager
Tel: +33 1 41 44 38 18
joannapays@thomson.net
THOMSON
Network Intelligence Solutions, CIRPACK
