How Quintum's Access Solutions Bring Service Providers and
Enterprises Together to Make the World Safe for VoIP
Life on the Edge - Quintum Technologies
Introduction
Executive Summary
Voice-over-IP (VoIP) offers a wide range of benefits -
including cost savings, the convenience of managing
one network instead of two, simplified provisioning
of services to remote locations, and the ability to
deploy a new generation of converged applications.
However, implementation of VoIP poses a variety
of challenges for enterprises and service
providers alike.
For service providers, these challenges include the
tremendous diversity in the customer environments.
These environments range from legacy
PBXs to state-of-the-art all-IP infrastructure. To
profitably deliver VoIP in this diverse market, service
providers must be able to quickly and inexpensively
accommodate whatever type of equipment
exists on a customer's premises. Service providers
must also be able to ensure their customers that the
VoIP solutions they deliver are reliable and secure.
And they have to be able to remotely manage their
customers' on-premise equipment, even if it's
behind a firewall running network address translation
(NAT).