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Cisco clears key regulatory hurdle for VoIP in India

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NEW DELHI: Cisco Systems Inc., a company dealing in networking for the

Internet, has announced that it has cleared a key regulatory hurdle in India and

is now able to provide its VoIP (Voice over IP) technologies and solutions to

service providers in the country. Shortly after the legalization of VoIP in

India on April 1, the Telecommunications Engineering Center (TEC) of India

approved Cisco's VoIP products for use in the country.






Cisco's VoIP products, including the Cisco AS5400 Series Universal Gateway and
Cisco PGW2200 PSTN Gateway, will enable service providers in India to interface

with the networks of BSNL and MTNL through any of the PSTN signaling schemes -

SS7, E1/R2, or ISDN PRI. This offers service providers the flexibility to

interconnect with E1/R2 at one location and SS7 at a different location for

distributed VoIP points of presence (POP) across the country. Cisco's Network

Solutions Integration Test Engineering (NSITE) and Compliance Engineering Test

Groups conducted the TEC compliance tests.






Cisco currently supports over 80 worldwide C7/SS7 variants including ETSI, ANSI
and ITU-based standards. In Asia Pacific, Cisco has certified SS7-capable

voice-over-IP solutions in Australia, China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New

Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. These solutions

are deployed world-wide by service providers including British Telecom, Cable

& Wireless, China Telecom, TelNet Worldwide, and Tele2 AB.






"The entry of Cisco VoIP solutions into the market will provide the much
needed impetus to VoIP adoption by service providers in India. This is because

Cisco's VoIP solutions are the first to support all three signaling schemes that

are prevalent in the country currently", said Cisco Systems India and SAARC

vice president Systems Engineering, SV Ramana. He said, "The VoIP solutions

will enable service providers to not only deploy multiple points of presence

across the country irrespective of the signaling scheme but also provide new

world services at competitive price points."





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