Global Crossing Taps Ubiquity as SIP Platform Supplier
The agreement calls for Global Crossing to use Ubiquity's SIP Application Server (SIP A/S) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) service creation environment to develop, deploy and manage a new suite of IP-based services, and to migrate existing legacy applications to its global IP platform. Global Crossing has plans to deploy several applications including VoIP Interactive Voice Response and VoIP Network Transfer.
"The Ubiquity SIP Application Server platform strengthens our IP architecture and supports our strategy to rapidly offer new and innovative IP services to enterprise and carrier customers worldwide," said Global Crossing's EVP Operations Dan Enright in a statement. Today's news follows Global Crossing's recently inked one-year contract with Brazilian carrier CTBC to provide Gigabit Ethernet (Gig-E) IP Transit services for faster Internet connectivity. CTBC serves more than one million subscribers with national and international long distance services.
The contract called for Global Crossing to offer CTBC its Tier-1 IP backbone, which includes more than 100,000 route miles of fiber-based IP network and extensive peering. These provide direct links to Internet content sites with minimal network hops and low-latency connectivity. With Gigabit Ethernet IP transit service in place, CTBC will now be able to scale their systems on demand as Internet traffic and applications continue to expand, responding quickly to changing service requirements.
Source: TMCNet