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Circuit and packet voice solutions
We are a leader in the development and deployment of highly scalable circuit switched and secure voice over packet solutions such as voice
over IP for wireline and wireless service providers around the world. Our voice over packet solutions offer service providers opportunities for
new revenue sources and sustainable operating and capital cost reduction, as well as high levels of reliability and network resiliency. Our
solutions include the following:
These solutions work alone or in combination with each other to provide traditional voice services, advanced packet voice services and
enhanced multimedia services to service providers around the world.
D
ata networking and security solutions
We offer a wide range of data networking (packet switching and routing) solutions to our service provider customers. Our wide area network,
or WAN, solutions and IP service routers enable our service provider customers to offer connectivity solutions and high value services to both
enterprises and residential customers. Connectivity solutions include packet services such as: frame relay; Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or
ATM; Ethernet; and IP access for digital subscriber line and cable users. High-value services, such as IP virtual private networks, enable an
enterprise to connect with other enterprise sites and remote users and to securely connect with business partners. These high-value services also
provide enhanced network capabilities, such as network security, network address translation and class of service, that enable service providers
to offer a wide range of networking services beyond basic connection to the network. In 2004, we announced a new multiservice provider edge
networking device that allows service providers to converge multiple networks at the network edge to enable the delivery of voice, data,
multimedia and wireless services over a single, converged network. When we refer to the network edge, we are referring to the point at which
access networks meet the core network.
Product development
Research and development investments are focused on creating new and improving existing, packet-based residential and business services for
wireline and wireless service providers. Also, we continue to develop products that support the evolution of data, voice and multimedia
communications systems toward converged or combined voice and data networks, including:
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• Our wireline voice over packet network solutions for service providers, which include softswitches and media gateways. The
portfolio provides the complete range of voice over packet solutions, including local, toll, long-distance and international gateway
capabilities, and enables voice applications to run on the new multi-services packet network. These solutions leverage more
efficient packet-based, as opposed to circuit-based, technologies that drive reduced capital and operational costs for service
providers and provide a platform for the delivery of new revenue-generating services, such as Centrex IP and voice over IP virtual
private networks.
• Our multimedia communications services portfolio allows our customers to deploy new, enhanced multimedia services, including
video, collaboration and personal agent services. The portfolio includes a session initiation protocol-based application server that
can enable an interactive user session involving multimedia elements. For example, personal agent services allow users to
customize their communications by selecting the medium over which they wish to receive a particular message (such as wireline or
wireless telephony, e-mail and instant messaging) by setting screening criteria such as time of day and day of week, month or year.
• Our DMS portfolio is a family of digital, circuit-based telephone switches that provides local, toll, long-distance and international
gateway capabilities for service providers. Our DMS systems enable service providers to connect end-users making local and long-
distance telephone calls. The DMS family of products can evolve to voice over packet solutions.
• Our Nortel Networks Developers Partner Program helps to drive the interoperability of our voice over IP multimedia
communications and DMS portfolios with third party vendors including infrastructure and application companies.
• Enhancements to our voice over packet solutions that will allow service providers to connect any business telephone system, using
standard voice over IP protocols, into a common dialing plan with connectivity to the public switched telephone network.
Additional enhancements to our packet voice solutions will continue to focus on interoperability with other manufacturers’
equipment, including gateway and integrated access device manufacturers, as well as on meeting the needs of the Asian and
European markets. We continue to make improvements to our softswitch portfolio by utilizing the latest commercial technology to
provide our customers with converged wireline and wireless service support, superior application choices, integrated network
management and linear scalable capacity.