NetworkIP, a Texas-based provider of wholesale telephony and virtual stored value services, has opted for the Stratus ENTICE telecommunications solution to expand network capacity for its existing services and speed up go-to-market time for new and upgraded customer applications.

 

NetworkIP is an independent carrier with 450 million minutes processed by customers every month and 800 million end user accounts managed in real-time.

 

NetworkIP has selected ENTICE over competitive platforms because of its easy scalability, open platform enabling application adaptability from its existing infrastructure, and ability to support rapid deployment of new and custom NetworkIP applications ranging from long distance dialing to Web and audio conferencing, voice mail and VoIP.

 

“We are quickly outgrowing our existing switches, and we are always looking for ways to make it easier to enhance our network. ENTICE delivers both capabilities, along with a far more efficient strategy for deploying VoIP services than we have today,” said Bob Ziemba, NetworkIP director of engineering. “We have been searching for a scalable, agile and reliable deployment platform to complement our existing infrastructure for several years, and Stratus showed that ENTICE has the power we’re looking for.”

 

ENTICE’s ability to scale to over 100,000 ports will help NetworkIP add processing power to support rapidly growing demand for its voice, data and IP services. ENTICE’s open platform approach with built-in APIs will enable NetworkIP to quickly adapt its existing applications as well as deliver modified features and custom solutions on their own time frame.

 

The TDM/IP-compatible ENTICE platform will also simplify NetworkIP’s support of IP traffic and applications by eliminating the need for add-on IP network interface cards and associated resource allocation challenges.

 

“Any carrier that has undergone a due diligence process as lengthy as NetworkIP’s has clearly found differences in the technologies they are evaluating. The fact that they chose our ENTICE platform indicates that we offer features and functionality not available from other vendors,” said Nathan Franzmeier, Stratus senior vice president of the Emerging Network Solutions (News - Alert) Group. “Our scalability, rapid deployment and other advanced capabilities give us – and our customers - a significant competitive advantage.”