IP Centrex - Market Requirements

IP Centrex services have been growing steadily in recent years, and are expected to continue growing fast as an integral part of cloud-based hosted solutions that are offered by service providers. Many business customers are attracted to IP Centrex for its flexibility and significant savings on capital expenses. To enable rapid deployments of IP Centrex solutions, both business customers and service providers are looking for high quality and affordable customer premises equipment (CPE) that will help businesses easily connect to IP Centrex.

IP Centrex - AudioCodes Solution

AudioCodes provides a comprehensive set of products that enable IP Centrex service providers to offer any sized business with an easy deployment of hosted VoIP services, using AudioCodes’ proven quality of CPE products.

AudioCodes solutions for IP Centrex include:

• Survivable VoIP and Access Gateways for connecting legacy digital and analog phones
• High Definition IP Phones for excellent voice call clarity
• Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs) for secured IP-to-IP interoperability and remote workers connectivity
• Multi Service Business Gateways (MSBGs) – an all-in-one box that incorporate WAN Access,Firewall, Router, E-SBC, LAN switch and survivability
• Mobile VoIP solution for superb voice connectivity over cellular and WiFi networks
• Embedded PacketSmart agent for remote monitoring of Voice and Data QoS
   

The AudioCodes gateways and E-SBCs provide VoIP survivability to SMBs and branch offices, by supporting internal calling and external PSTN calling for the local office’s IP Phones in case the connection to the IP Centrex is down. These gateways and E-SBCs also include onboard web management tools and PSTN connectivity for fallback and local emergency services.  

IP Centrex - Features and Benefits

• Support for all types of phones (analog, digital, IP) and fax machines
• Wide interoperability with IP Centrex solutions and CPE
• Stand alone survivability (SAS) for continuous VoIP service to the customer’s site
• High level of enterprise security and a clear point of demarcation
• Remote workers connectivity
• Superb High Definition VoIP clarity
• Affordable high quality of mobile calls
• Remote Quality-of-Service tool
• Easy configuration and monitoring
• Modularity and scalability of channel and session capacity