BANGALORE: EmpowerTel Networks and Leading Edge/eCapital Solutions announced
a strategic partnership to set-up a next generation Telecom R&D lab located
in New Delhi, India. The Indian R&D Lab will function as the software
development arm for EmpowerTel for its USX1000 product line.
EmpowerTel and Leading Edge/eCapital India will also support and provide
system integration for the global rollout of USX1000 product line, slated for
general availability in Q3 of Calendar Year 2000. This Lab will deliver IP-based
services for the USX1000 product line. The lab will also develop broadband
services for Internet Telephony Service Providers, Local Exchange Carriers and
Next Generation Service Providers. "In the first year the R&D Lab at
Delhi will employ about 100 professionals, focusing on core product development
and interoperability with other leading edge VoIP products. We also plan to add
another facility in Bangalore in collaboration with large global telecom and
network equipment providers", said EmpowerTel chief technology officer and
vice president business development Raj Saksena.
The IP services market globally is expected to be worth US $ 80 plus billion
over the next three years, states a press release. According to Leading
Edge/ecapital Solutions president and chief executive officer Suresh Rajpal
said, "EmpowerTel's India R&D Lab, modeled on the pattern of Bell Labs,
will incorporate quality and best-in-class processes, right from the inception
and will create carrier grade VoIP products for worldwide deployment".
EmpowerTel Networks also announced its Unified Services Exchange (USX1000) -
a centrally managed VoIP Switching Solution for Carrier market. This is a
complete carrier-class VoIP switching system that enables PSTN convergence over
Packet Networks. Based on open, modular and distributed Unified Media
Architecture (UMA), the USX1000 supports industry standards and emerging
protocols. The UMA architecture delivers high availability and scalability
imperative to the PSTN requirements with the cost and features of an IP
infrastructure. The USX1000 is a complete, managed VoIP Network Solution that
includes subsystems like the Unified Call Exchange (UCX), the Unified Services
Gateway (USG), the Unified Management System (UMS) and the Unified Application
Server (UAS).