New Global Telecom Standardizes on Edgewater Networks Devices
As part of its Network Performance Platform, NGT identifies Edgewater Networks solution as a key component to improve installation time and quality of service
Santa Clara, Calif. – September 12, 2006 – Edgewater Networks, Inc., the leader in converged networking solutions for IP-based applications, today announced that New Global Telecom (NGT), the leader in wholesale hosted VoIP solutions, has selected the EdgeMarc router for its reference VoIP network architecture.
Focus on Quality of Service
After installing tens of thousands of VoIP endpoints, NGT determined that EdgeMarc offers the best solution for an all-in-one VoIP router and support system.
Built to simplify the setup and support of VoIP, some of the key features of the EdgeMarc include: SIP, MGCP and H.323 application layer gateways, stateful packet inspection firewall, VPN, PSTN failover and VoIP survivability, passive call quality monitoring, and quality of service tools such as prioritization, traffic shaping, call admission control.
“The EdgeMarc provides our partner-community tools for easy configuration, setup, and support, and allows for greater visibility into the customer’s site,” said John Guillaume, SVP of Product & Marketing. “These products are an important ingredient in our VoIP deployment standardization efforts, and we’ve found that they help improve the end-user quality experience.”
Importance of Standardizing
Products that shorten installation and support time are critical to scaling the business. In addition, predictable network design that eliminates interoperability and firmware-incompatibility issues ensures a more predictable quality of service. As the leading wholesale provider of business VoIP service, NGT is pioneering a standard reference design for all network elements.
"Edgewater Networks’ devices are a natural fit to our Network Performance Platform initiatives,” said Guillaume. “They allow us and our partners to install more customers in a single day, and allow comprehensive analysis and monitoring of key VoIP elements. We believe that Edgewater Networks helps us deliver reliable, business-class services.”
“We are pleased to play a key role in NGT’s network design. Having Edgewater Networks’ products standardized by NGT is a great testament to our focus on service quality and scale,” said Dave Norman, CEO, of Edgewater Networks.
For more information about Edgewater Networks please visit our website at www.edgewaternetworks.com or contact us at sales@edgewaternetworks.com.
About Edgewater Networks, Inc. - Converged Networking. Simplified.
Edgewater Networks develops networking and security products that ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IP based voice and video for service providers and enterprises. Edgewater Networks’ award-winning solution simplifies setup and management of converged networking applications and provides proven operational savings from the remote office to the core of the network.
For more information about Edgewater Networks, Inc. please visit the company’s website at www.edgewaternetworks.com or contact Oliver Davis at 415.595.7481.
About NGT
New Global Telecom, Inc. is the leading provider of wholesale hosted and trunk-based VoIP solutions and outsourced network management services. Through its New Global Telecom and General Telecom brands, the company delivers IP and TDM switch partitioning, outsourced network operations and VoIP services to carriers and Service Providers, including CLECs, ISPs, VPN providers and VoIP-centric companies worldwide. NGT's 6DegreesIP product suite of managed wholesale VoIP products offers Service Providers a highly effective, comprehensive solution to address residential and business end-user needs. 6DegreesIP includes a complete range of telephony features, extensive local & long-distance calling footprint, worldwide conferencing capability, E911 service, training and other support. TDM-to-IP and IP-to-IP switching services are also available. For more information, please visit www.ngt.com.
