Following the installation in 2007 of a carrier-grade Class 4 TELES NGN solution – one of the largest projects of its kind in Europe – freenet's migration from TDM to NGN has now been successfully completed. The solution enables freenet to migrate from TDM to a full next generation network (NGN) backbone from which its carrier customers will now also benefit.
Stephan Esch, freenet's CTO, has been keeping a close eye on progress: "The TELES solution built a bridge to our existing VoIP services and now we have been able to integrate our DSL-based VoIP-subscribers and all legacy services into a single, standard-based NGN architecture."
Frank Paetsch, TELES CTO, has followed each step of the deployment through to full migration and believes that the project represents a significant achievement for TELES: "We are very proud to have been given the opportunity by freenet to demonstrate our ability to take on a large-scale and complex project such as this, and we are also very proud of the work we have done to see this deployment through to its successful conclusion."
TELES Class 4 Softswitch cluster technology provides freenet and its customers with five-nines availability, geographically distributed redundancy, support for up to 10 million busy hour call attempts, an advanced and programmable call routing engine, and any-to-any protocol interworking. In addition to its cost-effectiveness and scalability, the Softswitch can be remotely managed, configured, and deployed.
