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tekVizion Joins Level3's VoIP Tech Alliance Program
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Provider of integration systems tekVizion PVS Inc. announced on Monday that it is the newest participant of Level3 Communications' (3)VoIPSM Technology Alliance Program (TAP). The companies also announced that tekVizion Labs now maintains a persistent connection with Level3's VoIP network in order to provide interoperability testing services.
The new membership will now enable service providers and vendors to have the option of contracting with tekVizion to complete Level3's (3) Interop certification process. Level3 requires completion of the (3) Interop process before a service provider turns up traffic over the Level3 network, or whenever the service provider or Level3 adds or upgrades any network components or VoIP services.
"tekVizion is an important participant in the (3)VoIP TAP program," said Bill Steen, director of channel development for Level3. "tekVizion Labs' testing services are important to helping us rapidly expand the number of products certified as interoperable to the Level 3 network and to bring more traffic onto the network reliably."
The (3)VoIP TAP program formalizes the relationships between Level3 and a select group of technology vendors and experts in order to help service providers quickly deploy services that are to be interconnected with the Level 3 network.
"tekVizion is honored to bring its interoperability expertise to its role as a member of the (3)VoIP TAP Program," said Sach Vengurlekar, tekVizion CEO. "This venture is a boon to the entire VoIP industry because it makes it so much easier for service providers to be confident about adding or adapting IP-based services to their existing legacy networks."
Level3 made news back in November when it selected session border control provider Acme Packet for the company to participate it its (3)VoIP Technology Alliance Program (TAP). Acme's Net-Net session border controllers feature access control, network topology hiding at layer 3 & 5; hosted NAT traversal; DoS protection; session admission control based upon available bandwidth and observed QoS; L2 & L3 QoS marking, VLAN, 802.1p, ToS, DiffServ, MPLS; QoS reporting; SIP-H.323 interworking, H.323 version and configuration interworking, bandwidth policing, QoS theft protection; session replication and routing for lawful intercept (e.g. CALEA); and 5Gbps packet filtering, 3 microseconds latency, 32,000 concurrent sessions, 10/100 and 1000 Mbps Ethernet interfaces.
"Acme Packet is honored to be one of the few technology vendors to participate in the (3)VoIP TAP," remarked Seamus Hourihan, vice president product management and marketing, Acme Packet back then. "This program is one of the first of its kind in the industry dedicated to working with vendors to enable service provider connections to Level 3's network in a quick and efficient manner."
tekVizion PVS, Inc.
Level3 Communications
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne Torres' columnist page
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