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PACTOLUS COMPLETES SIP INTEROPERABILITY TESTING WITH SONUS NETWORKS
Attains "Powered Partner" Status for Proven Integration with Sonus Products
WESTFORD, Mass., March 19, 2001 -
Pactolus Communications Software, the leading provider of XML-based enhanced services solutions for SIP-enabled networks announced that it has successfully completed SIP interoperability tests with Sonus Networks (Nasdaq: SONS), a leading provider of voice infrastructure solutions for the new public network. An extensive test environment was set up to include testing of the Pactolus RapidFLEXTM Application Server and Prepaid Calling Card application. Pactolus is one of the first in a group of companies to complete SIP testing with the Sonus PSX6000TM SoftSwitch and GSX9000TM Open Services Switch.
"Pactolus has been an extremely active participant in our OSPA program," said Terri Griffin, vice president of marketing, INtelligentIPâ division, Sonus Networks. "Their trunk-side application focus continues to be a very compelling value proposition to our carrier customers as VoIP networks are getting built from the inside-out. As these carriers complete installation of core network elements using Sonus solutions they are now looking for the kinds of services Pactolus is building including prepaid calling card, toll-free number services, and conference calling."
"Our technical and business partnership with Sonus has resulted in making a full featured Application Server environment available to carriers installing SIP-enabled networks," said Gordon Arthur, vice president of business development at Pactolus. "The GSX9000 Open Services Switch with its open architecture and adherence to the latest VoIP protocols including SIP and MGCP has enabled both of us to quickly assemble a complete services solution for carriers."
Sonus Networks has worked in partnership with Pactolus since April 2000 to help carriers quickly create and deploy new revenue generating services through Sonus' Open Services ArchitectureTM (OSA). The Pactolus RapidFLEX SCE has provided an XML-based, "drag-and-drop" visual development environment for the Sonus PSX6000 SoftSwitch. By using the SCE and Pactolus' eXtensible Telephony Markup Language (XTML), Sonus customers can quickly create and deploy new services on the Sonus SoftSwitch, including specialized routing, custom call flows, voice announcements and calling services.
About Pactolus Products
The Pactolus RapidFLEX TM Application Server and Service Creation Environment (SCE) is an open, extensible, Unix-based software platform that delivers high value, carrier-class enhanced services to converged networks. The RapidFLEX SCE enables service providers to create their own XML-based applications through a graphical, software component interface that can be directly deployed on a RapidFLEX Application Server. Pactolus offers several SCE-built, pre-packaged, trunk-side services including prepaid calling card, conference calling, and toll free number services for deployment in SIP-enabled networks.
About Pactolus Communications Software
Pactolus Communications Software, is a leading supplier of XML-based enhanced service platforms, applications and service creation solutions for next-generation communications networks. Pactolus' RapidFLEX application server and eXtensible Telephony Markup Language (XTML) bring the Internet's service delivery model to next-generation enhanced communications services. With XTML, Pactolus enables service providers to rapidly create and deploy value-added business-to-business and residential enhanced services that are customized to meet each subscriber's specific needs. More information about Pactolus is available at www.pactolus.com .
For more information contact:
Gordon A. Arthur
Vice President of Business Development
Pactolus Communications Software
508-620-5519 x 219
garthur@pactolus.com
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