Global Interconnect

The GENBAND Interconnect Solution enables the seamless any-to-any (IP to IP, IP to TDM, TDM to TDM) interconnection of fixed and mobile voice and multimedia traffic. This end-to-end, open standards-based solution utilizes GENBAND’s rich portfolio of market-leading IP media and session border gateways to reduce costs, expand markets, and interwork with the growing volume of peering and managed interconnect services like the GSM Association’s IP eXchange (IPX).

Network operators are increasingly challenged to profitably manage voice and multimedia traffic that flows between their networks and other networks. This interconnect traffic can come from many sources including other fixed and mobile operators, intra-company divisions, wholesale partners, and peering exchanges. The volume and complexity of this traffic has grown substantially in recent years due to migration to Voice over IP in both fixed line and mobile voice core networks. Operators typically use Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) for network-to-network interconnections, but their TDM investments are no longer meeting all of today’s complex needs, nor do they enable new services.

Operators are seeking to reduce transaction costs by capping or replacing their legacy TDM networks, but at the same time find new ways to cost-effectively route both TDM minutes and the growing volume of mobile and SIP/VoIP minutes across national and international backbones. They are also being challenged to improve scale, enhance QoS, and reduce the number of interconnect network components and operational complexity.

The GENBAND Interconnect Solution gives operators the ability to cap or replace their legacy TDM networks, yet interconnect and intelligently route traffic on an any-to-any basis, whether IP, TDM, fixed, or mobile. Advanced policy enforcement, reporting, and routing, in addition to a single management umbrella, simplifies operations and enhances service visibility. Support for interfaces such as C7/SS7, BICC, SIP-I, H.323, and Nb/Nc ensures broad global coverage, irrespective of the mobile or fixed origin or destination of traffic. In addition, GENBAND’s flexible architecture allows for massive scalability by providing both integrated and decoupled signaling and media interworking options, as well as multimedia transcoding with extensive codec support.

GENBAND’s rich portfolio of products are at the heart of this groundbreaking solution, providing IP to IP, IP to TDM, and TDM to TDM signaling and media interworking to ensure complete, effective coverage for all traffic and signaling types. The solution uses the G9 Converged Gateway for IP, TDM, fixed, and mobile voice and multimedia interworking and transcoding; the C3 Gateway Controller for media resource and gateway control as well as IP to TDM signaling interworking; the S3 and S9 Session Border Controllers for session management, security, policy enforcement, and IP protocol interworking; and the SR3 Routing Proxy (or partner platforms) for advanced centralized policy routing. Global management is provided by the GenView™ network management system.

Unlike other vendor solutions that only solve part of the problem, GENBAND provides an open standards, single vendor solution that enables the interworking of traffic from GSM and non-GSM operator networks, TDM-based fixed and mobile networks, and SIP-based VoIP and multimedia networks. The solution also encourages revenue growth by allowing operators to expand their network capabilities and services, as well as extend their brand across new market segments and geographies. In addition, because of compliance with open standards, any component of this solution can easily be added to existing networks.