Network Equipment Technologies Introduces New Mediation Platform for Unified Communications and More

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET) has introduced its UX Series high performance mediation platform, along with the availability of UX2000, its first products based on the new platform, advancing the company's unified communications efforts. The UX platform has been built with several state-of-the-art network and signal processing technologies at its core, including 24Gbs, non-blocking IP-core backplane, high-performance digital signal processors, and high complexity transcoding and security encryption operations.

A modular 1U system purpose-built for unified communications, enterprise border controller, and multi-service business gateway applications, the UX2000 comes with up to six high performance DSPs and two telecom card slots with a variety of DS1 cards to chose from, in order to provide mediation processing for IP and TDM solutions. It also has an optional solutions module to allow for third-party application support, and can support up to 600 simultaneous transcoded and encrypted calls.

The UX2000 provides interoperability with NET's VX Series Voice Exchange and Tenor media gateway products, and at the same time supports "drop-in" installation methodology for NET's upstream deployment model. Its initial software release provides exceptional QoE features, voice quality, intelligent call routing and forking, as well as comprehensive PBX inoperability. The directory-based call routing is built into the UX platform, and also features a multi-mode user interface and a web-based user interface designed to make installation quicker and easier with a "task" configuration mode.

"With the release of the super-high-speed UX platform, NET raises the speed of translation (termed mediation) amongst protocols that we find in both new and legacy enterprise and government UC networks," says David Yedwab of UCStrategies. "While many of the protocols claim to follow industry standards, there are flavors of compliance across the vendor implementations as well as the need to mediate between IP and TDM protocols. With the speed and compactness of the UX, NET is in a position to reduce the number of mediation appliances that will be needed to support larger enterprise and government UC deployments."

The UX platform's design allows the company to add more features in the future through software releases, and new chassis models are planned for the needs of smaller branch offices and larger enterprises and service providers.

For more information, visit www.net.com.