Converged Access Intros VoIP Accelerator

By Patrick Barnard

TMCnet Associate Editor

 

Converged Access recently introduced the CTX 600 VoIP Accelerator, a network device which helps service providers protect and manage their VoIP traffic while at the same time ensuring Quality of Service for their customers.

According to a company press release, the CTX 600 “costs $650 and can be easily plugged into any IP WAN environment for instant VoIP quality results.”

“The CTX 600 ensures toll quality performance with robust traffic management to protect VoIP traffic and ensure optimum use of broadband bandwidth at the lowest possible cost,” the press release states. “Applications are classified at wire-speed on a per flow basis so VoIP gets top priority and guaranteed bandwidth. Other data applications like e-mail and browsing are given best effort service.”


Several service providers which are already using the device have given it their endorsement:

“The CTX 600 VoIP Accelerator perfectly addresses our requirements to guarantee call quality on converged voice/data access connections,” said Wray West, founder and vice president of engineering for Whaleback Systems Corporation, which offers turn-key business-grade VoIP services to small and medium-size enterprises. “The product will also provide critical statistics and management data which contributes to our total service performance monitoring. We plan to offer this product to our customers whenever data and VoIP share the same link.”

Robert Messer, President and CEO, ABP International, said the device saves money by eliminating call quality issues, which take time and resources to resolve.

“I am happy to partner with Converged Access to offer this solution to my customers,” Messer said the in the release.

Per Suneby, President and CEO of Converged Access, said the CTX 600 “is perfect for small or remote offices that are experiencing poor voice quality including distortion, word loss, echo, talker overlap or dropped calls on a VoIP network.”

“Customers will very quickly and with little effort and expense, solve all these problems and enjoy toll-quality VoIP results,” Suneby said. “They will finally have satisfied end-users and obtain the financial return they had expected on their initial VoIP investment.”

For more information, visit http://www.convergedaccess.com.

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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for TMCnet and a columnist covering the telecom industry. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.