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."
Cisco clears key regulatory hurdle for VoIP in India
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