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South Indian Bank to use Nortel’s VoIP solution

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BANAGLORE: South Indian Bank, a private sector banking institution, has

selected Nortel Network’s solution, a converged IP (Internet Protocol)

voice and data network, ultimately expected to connect 150 branches

nationwide.






Solutions from Nortel Networks have already linked 50 branches across the
country to South Indian Bank's Data Center at Thrissur, its headquarters.

Connection of another 100 branches is scheduled for completion by the end

of this year.






The end-to-end South Indian Bank solution makes use of Nortel Networks WAN
(wide area network), LAN (local area network) and voice over IP solutions

to provide a reliable, scalable IP backbone for seamless transport of

high-quality voice and secure, encrypted data traffic.






The government of India’s recent legislation allowing voice over IP has
created a market opportunity, said Nortel Networks India vice president,

Enterprise Solutions, Ravi Chauhan. As a global market leader in voice

over IP, our solutions enable enterprises to migrate to voice over IP at

their own pace and in step with their own business requirements, while

protecting current investments in equipment and infrastructure.






At the core of Nortel Networks solution for South Indian Bank is Nortel
Networks Meridian IP PBX with Internet Telephony Gateway. This solution is

designed to handle a range of voice over IP services, in addition to the

traditional voice mail, call center and computer telephony integration

(CTI) services that have made Meridian 1 one of the world s best-selling

PBXs.






South Indian Bank is also deploying Nortel Networks i2004 IP telephones to
handle next generation solutions enabled by desktop convergence of voice

and data, and Nortel Networks Remote Office 9150 option to extend the

same, high-quality communications functionality to branch offices.






The South Indian Bank LAN is based on Nortel Networks Passport 8600
routing switch, which provides secure, intelligent network routing to

support bandwidth growth and mission-critical reliability. Passport 8600

supports a high-performance Layer 2-7 switching architecture; 512 Gigabits

backplane switching capacity; and supports Fast Ethernet, Gigabit

Ethernet, Packet-over-SONET, ATM and CWDM interfaces within a single

platform that supports voice, video and data.



Nortel Networks is also deploying the flexible Access Stack Node (ASN)
router to integrate core WAN traffic, and to offer virtual private network

(VPN) tunneling, IP Multicast, and extensive quality of service (QoS)

features, in addition to triple DES encryption. Nortel Networks Advanced

Remote Node (ARN) routers are also being installed to provide scalable and

cost-effective connectivity for remote offices and network centers.












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