Cylogistics Best of Breed Softswitch Increases CLECs Performance, Reduces Cost and Scales With Demand

TrueLine Telephony SoftSwitch Provides a Carrier-Grade Centralized VoIP Solution

Cylogistics, a leading provider of high-performance, high-quality telephony hardware and software, is introducing its TrueLine Telephony SoftSwitch, a carrier grade Class 5 softswitch that delivers a centralized VoIP solution for carriers and service providers.

"This solution supports that current Class 5 technology, while also offering the cost-effectiveness and customizability to allow CLECs to offer the VoIP services that customers are beginning to expect," said Don Witt, President and CEO at Cylogistics. "This solution costs at least 20 percent less than competing solutions from competing hardware vendors. This higher level of service and lower cost expands the market that a traditional CLEC can reach to a whole new level."

The TrueLine SoftSwitch features a scalable and distributed architecture to enable carriers to affordably and effectively deliver the next-generation VoIP services that customers are demanding. The solution helps carriers implement an affordable softswitch solution and then expand services later as desired with only a software upgrade.

With support for multi-vendor VoIP media equipment, complex routing and a PSTN interconnect, this flexible and innovative softswitch solution delivers a wide range of VoIP enabled services, including least cost routing, and national and international wholesale traffic. The TrueLine Telephony SoftSwitch creates a seamless interconnect between VoIP end points in situations in which direct communication between the two end points is impossible. The system's Media Gateway Controller can accept calls directly to and from end points, gatekeepers/proxy servers, gateways and switches.

Support for the MGCP protocol delivers a clientless management system that saves time and trouble by allowing UDP parameters to be managed, maintained and routed via a Web browser. The softswitch also supports a variety of industry standard protocols, including SIP and IAX, as well as all the major codecs, such as G711 and G729.

The TrueLine SoftSwitch is designed to maximize uptime and provide safeguards against service interruptions. Since up-time is critical, Cylogistics created dual plane architecture that creates a full carrier grade redundant architecture. The VoIP interconnect, which is divided into two gateway planes, appears as a single entity to the network. This system design ensures against a single point of failure and maintains active calls across the interconnection even in the event of a hardware or software failure.

The softswitch, which integrates a complex SIP Proxy component, can be readily integrated into existing infrastructure from leading vendors including Cisco, Nortel and others. It supports TCP/UDP solutions to allow CLECs offering Direct Inward Dialing (DID) or dial tone services to their network of customers to readily leverage the services of Tier 1 vendors, such as Level 3. The TrueLine SoftSwitch supports NAT correction, destination routing and packet sanitizing in a single security-rich custom Linux distribution.

The system is available in either a compact or an extended form factor. The compact form factor packs a high-performance, high-density signaling environment into a small-footprint, 1U high chassis. Meanwhile, the extended chassis option measures 4Us high and provides greater cross connect and hardware redundancy.

Cylogistics provides on-site signaling expertise to its customers to help them troubleshoot network interconnection issues. The company also offers comprehensive after-sales support, including documentation, training, and custom extension programming.

The TrueLine Telephony SoftSwitch will ship in Q2 2005.

About Cylogistics

In the past decade, Cylogistics has focused on developing close relationships with a solid roster of hardware and software vendors. The company utilizes components from these close alliances to quickly and successfully deliver products to the reseller channel. Cylogistics is dedicated to delivering high-quality, high-performance products to its resellers in order to create an opportunity of maximizing margins for the channel and empowering VARs to create long-term relationships by building end-user confidence. For questions about Cylogistics or its products, visit the company's Web site at www.cylogistics.com or call 800-749-2734.

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