Verso VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch brings to market the critical features and functions demanded by NGN service providers in order to remain competitive. It enables incumbents and competitive carriers to offer new and advanced residential and enterprise communication services that provide a competitive advantage.

The VCLEAR™ Class 5Softswitch delivers central office switch features for enterprise managed services; for wholesale, residential, and SOHO (small office/home office) applications; and for other next-generation voice solutions as well. As a key component of the VCLEAR™ Edge Access Softswitch, the VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch offers service providers a true end-to-end VoIP solution.

The Solution for Reaching the Edge in Next Generation Networks

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch serves as the central call control and supplementary service management engine for enterprise managed services, wholesale, residential/SoHo applications, and other next generation voice solutions.

The VCLEAR™ Edge Access Softswitch solution offers service providers a true end-to end VoIP solution. The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch can route calls to partners' IP networks and global clearinghouses, and when combined with the VCLEAR™ PSTN Access Softswitch solution, to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

The key to true end-to-end VoIP

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch serves as the central call control and supplementary service management engine for the VCLEAR™ Edge Access Softswitch. It can route calls to partners' IP networks and global clearinghouses and, when combined with the VCLEAR™ PSTN Access Softswitch, it can route calls directly to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). This enables service providers to make full use of their legacy assets while greatly reducing CapEx and OpEx.

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch dramatically reduces the need for carriers to pass calls through competitors' networks and incur any additional transport costs. It provides everything needed to support a true end-to-end, carrier-based VoIP solution.

Call Control for Next Generation Voice Solutions

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch provides:

• business phone and enhanced supplementary services for use in consumer and enterprise applications
• seamless interconnection for SIP, H.323 and MGCP-based edge devices including customer premises gateways, integrated access devices, IP endpoints, SIP access gateways, H.323 access gateways, and LRQ gatekeepers
• Prepaid calling offerings on edge devices
• support for Verso VCLEAR™ Voice Mail, a high-performance, readily marketable solution for enterprises, small-to-medium businesses and residential customers
• Support for private IP networks to address the scarcity of publicly routable IP addresses

Scalability and Flexibility

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch grows seamlessly, allowing you to provision as many or as few ports as needed, and it easily scales when additional capacity is required. A single VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch can also provide support for multiple applications within a single network design.

Voice Over Broadband

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch provides feature-rich Voice over Broadband (VoBB) to enterprise and residential markets over any broadband medium including cable, xDSL, wireless, fiber, satellite, microwave, and power-line networks. You can create true satellite offices with the same access and dialing plan capabilities as corporate PBX stations by combining the VoBB and enterprise managed services features.

Compliance

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch supports emergency services (E911), ensuring that calls to emergency numbers take precedence over all other incoming and active calls, and that they are not disconnected. It also supports Location Routing Number (LRN) portability, so subscribers can change service providers without changing phone numbers. In addition, Verso's Lawful Interception (LI) solution provides legally sanctioned access to private communications by authorized agencies.

Easy Configuration and Management

The VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch can be deployed, configured, and managed remotely using the VCLEAR™ Element Management System, the web based tool used for provisioning and managing all components of the VCLEAR™ network, as well as third-party edge devices. At a component level, the VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch supports SNMP with a comprehensive management information base (MIB). You can set configuration parameters, poll devices for performance statistics, check status information, and receive alarms, if faults occur.

Regulatory and Compliance

• Compliant with Regulatory Emergency Services (E911) requirement
• Supports the Location Routing Number (LRN) method for number portability
• Supports Lawful Interception (LI) to provide legally sanctioned access to private communications by authorized agencies

Class 5 Services

• Residential services, including class features
• End-user account management and authentication
• Voice mail services
• Supplementary features
• Call Forward All/Busy/No Answer
• Caller ID
• Call Return
• Customer Originated Trace
• Call Waiting
• Caller ID Block
• Selective Caller ID Blocking/Unblocking
• Speed Dial
• Three-Way Calling *
• Call Transfer (conditional/unconditional)
• Message Waiting Indicator
• Hotline
• Video

* Three-Way Calling is supported by the VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch when provided by the edge device.

VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch Architecture Features

• Open architecture, standard SIP and H.323 control of media gateways
• H.323 and SIP interconnect to remote softswitch
• GR-303 and V5.2 network interconnect to enable service provider migration to a VoIP infrastructure
• High Availability, N+1 sparing, VCLEAR Class 5 Softswitch routing redundancy
• Multiple protocol (H.323, SIP & MGCP) support with a single Class 5
• DTMF transport type negotiation (Out-of-Band, Transparent, RFC-2833)
• T.38 fax relay, fax bypass, modem bypass
• Complete call rating & accounting services for complex rating schemes
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR) supporting applications such as credit card and prepaid services
• Multiple route choices offering proportional and least-cost routing
• Ability to rate calls based on source, destination, and supplementary information
• Flexible configuration for ingress and egress ANI/DNIS normalization
• Call limiting to control bandwidth utilization
• Service creation environment for defining IVR and call control
• Private IP addressing support
• SNMP management and monitoring
• Sun UNIX platforms: runs on a Solaris 8 or Solaris 10 operating system
• RADIUS when interfacing with a Radius Server, such as the Verso VCLEAR™ Prepaid Application, for subscriber management
• H.323/SIP Gateway Topology Hiding

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