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Netergy Networks Revolutionizes IP Telephony with Advanced Telephony System

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Netergy Networks, a leading provider of highly integrated IP telephony solutions, has announced the launch of its Netergy Advanced Telephony System (ATS), a groundbreaking solution that enables service providers to offer Voice over IP (VoIP) dial tone and advanced private branch exchange (PBX) services to business customers over any broadband IP connection. The ATS is the first commercially available, all-Internet protocol (IP) iPBX hosting solution, allowing service providers to host iPBX services from a data center or central office, revolutionizing the delivery, management, and user interface mechanisms of voice services for enterprises.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Netergy ATS consists of three elements: the iPBX Server System, Media Hubs, and advanced user interfaces that deliver control to the enterprise customer.
  • The iPBX Server System provides complete PBX functionality, including call hold, call transfer, multi-way conferencing, multi-line phone support, and voice mail.
  • The ATS supports standard IP telephony protocols for interoperability, such as H.323, SIP, MGCP, and DPCP.
  • Each Netergy iPBX Server System supports up to 100 discrete iPBXs, and up to 10,000 extensions.
  • Scalability, flexibility, and geographic independence are key features of the ATS, allowing for seamless scaling to 100,000 extensions or more, and easy linking of iPBX instances together.
  • The ATS provides a robust software development kit (SDK) for third-party developers, ensuring complete support for the Java telephony application program interface (JTAPI).
  • Administration is simplified through a Web interface, allowing system administrators to manage an iPBX from any location equipped with a browser.
  • Security is ensured through the use of Java virtual machines, firewall protection, and encrypted links to configuration terminals, preventing unauthorized changes in configuration.
  • The ATS enables customers to control their own moves, adds, and changes using a Java-based application called Netergy Administrator.
  • The system supports live upgrades, allowing new versions of the Server Software to be installed without shutting servers down.

Statistics:

  • The Netergy iPBX Server System can support up to 100 discrete iPBXs, and up to 10,000 extensions.
  • The ATS scales seamlessly to 100,000 extensions or more with the addition of Netra t1 servers to the cluster.
  • The system manager can link iPBX instances together to provide unified extension spaces that can serve enterprises with hundreds of extensions and which are geographically dispersed.

Sources:

  • Netergy Networks press release, "Netergy Networks Revolutionizes IP Telephony with Advanced Telephony System," March 27, 2000.
  • Netergy Networks website, www.netergynet.com.
  • Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 1999, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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