Cable VoIP

Cable companies (Cablecos) and Multiple Systems Operators (MSOs) around the globe have successfully established Cable VoIP solutions in today’s highly competitive marketplace.

Amongst the World’s leading VoIP service providers listed by a 2009 Infonetics study, an impressive 9 of the Top 20 have a Cable/MSO profile and further, a majority of these VoIP operators are GENBAND Customers. How did these MSOs achieve this level of success and how do they continue to evolve? MSOs keep it simple by packaging services for value as they offer monthly savings and focus on triple/quad bundles to position VoIP offerings with their Consumer and Business Customers. The Cable/MSO value proposition is intrinsically linked to reliable service, is made compelling with innovative features that Customers want, and is backed by outstanding Customer Service & support.

As Cable VoIP networks continue their rapid growth, operators are encountering scale, security, and complexity issues when interconnecting with other networks. GENBAND's Cable VoIP solutions can help. GENBAND solutions used in MSO/Cable networks worldwide, enable cable operators to provide secure, scalable, and competitive voice and multimedia services to both residential and business subscribers. GENBAND’s Cable VoIP solutions include a portfolio of Call Management Servers, Media Gateways and Session Border Controllers.

GENBAND’s suite of market leading Media Gateway Controller and Call Management Server (MGC/CMS) softswitches deliver PSTN transparency plus feature richness and country-specific regulatory compliance with unmatched reliability and scalability. The CS 2000 is flexibile in its support of a comprehensive list of essential Residential and Business-class capabilities from a common, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) platform. With the Adaptive Application Engine (A2E), cable operators can also deliver advanced multimedia capabilities that will differentiate the Cable VoIP bundle. Further, the CS 2000 can help the MSO/Cable service provider transition beyond TDM and VoIP to enable wireless and web application integration. Hence, the CS 2000 is well-positioned to foster massive MSO subscriber growth with the advent of Mobile VoIP applications in addition to delivering a variety of innovative multimedia applications to the chosen subscriber device.

The next areas of investment by MSO/Cable service providers will be to expand their Cable VoIP footprint across home phone and Enterprise market segments; to deliver a wider array of multimedia-rich service offerings such as social networking, collaborative communications and video applications; and to establish a presence in the mobile VoIP space. With operators enabling these new services, designing more efficient networks to evolve to PacketCable™ 2.0 and Multimedia architectures, and establishing new communication domains. there are tremendous opportunities to grow both the number and type of new network borders between the cable IP network and other IP networks, as well as with TDM networks like the PSTN or enterprise PBXs -- each new border brings its own set of communications, security, and management needs. GENBAND’s Cable VoIP solutions can enhance, secure and evolve these vital communications networks.

GENBAND's G-Series platforms provide the latest generation of state-of-the-art media gateways for cable operators, with network-proven interoperability with leading CMS, softswitches, and IMS cores. The G2™ Compact Gateway and PacketCable qualified G6® Universal Gateway are used in smaller cable trunking and access applications, and the G9™ Converged Gateway provides large scale trunking, signaling and media services for operators with PC 2.0, IMS and mobile networks.

In addition to cable media gateways, GENBAND has a complete suite of S-Series security platforms for cable operators. The S3 and S9 Session Border Controllers provide comprehensive carrier-class security, policy enforcement, and session management for cable networks. The S-Series platforms are used worldwide as the critical element to securely manage, route, and control real-time voice and multimedia sessions at network-to-network and network-to-user borders.

Cable operators look to GENBAND, as the leading provider of Global VoIP solutions, when deciding to expand their high-margin residential and business voice and multimedia services. MSO/Cable service providers benefit from low total cost of ownership with GENBAND Cable VoIP solutions.