Verso VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch

The Verso VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch solution is a cost-effective, true end-to-end VoIP solution. The Verso VCLEAR™ NGN platform serves as the call control and service management engine for voice over broadband applications, enterprise managed services, wholesale, peering, and hosted applications.

The Verso VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch solution enables carriers to offer a wide range of new services to customers through the convergence of voice and data on a single network. It opens the door to new revenue streams based on voice over broadband capabilities, PBX and IP PBX trunking, IP Centrex services, wholesale traffic concentration, and hosted applications.

The heart of the VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch, the VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch, controls gateways as well as endpoints in a protocol agnostic manner, so it is compatible with a wide range of SIP, H.323, and MGCP devices, as well as IP PBXs. It can dynamically allocate ports between protocols, so when your customers are ready to migrate or mix protocols you can provide a seamless transition without affecting their network.

The key to voice over broadband

The VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch was designed to support VoIP over almost any broadband transport, including Voice over Cable, xDSL, Wireless Local Loop, WiFi, WiMAX, Power Lines, and FTTH. With this enhanced flexibility, you can serve small office/home office (So/Ho) and residential clients using the same platform that serves your larger enterprise customers.

The key to enterprise managed services with a seamless migration path

With the VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch, you can offer customers VoIP support for legacy PBX or IP PBX systems without requiring an upgrade of their existing systems. When combined with third-party VoIP-enabled enterprise gateways or the Verso NetPerformer®, the VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch provides the switching, management, and control necessary for a successful enterprise offering.

The IP Centrex advantage

The VCLEAR™ IP Centrex solution is enabled by the VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch and extends the features offered by the VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch. The server is hosted within the operator domain, allowing carriers to own and manage the resources used by enterprise customers. Enterprise customers, in turn, can simply focus on day-today functions such as extension assignments and feature adaptations without the cost and hassle of taking on new customer premises equipment.

The VCLEAR™ IP Centrex solution allows service providers to begin offering this service with a limited capital investment and to scale quickly and affordably as the customer base grows.

The best of both worlds

There are no boundaries: the PBX support of enterprise managed services can be combined with broadband to meet the needs of almost any business. Today, remote workers need the same access as those in the corporate offices. The VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch enables enterprises to put remote employees on the corporate dialing plan, which PBXs cannot do. With VoIP service based on VCLEAR™ technology, employees in their home offices can have the same abbreviated dialing, access to voicemail, and long distance privileges as a PBX station without the PBX. Welcome to the next generation.

The key to a smooth migration

With its long and extensive experience in legacy protocols V5.2, GR-303, Verso allows a simple integration with legacy Digital Loop Carrier (DLC) infrastructure and offers a smooth and reusable investment path for carrier migration to Next Generation Edge solutions. When combined with third-party next generation multiservices DLCs, the VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch provides the switching, management, and control necessary for a successful access migration strategy.

Flexible wholesale and peering interconnection

For wholesale toll bypass and peering traffic concentration applications, the VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch operates as a trusted, peer gatekeeper in H.323 carrier gateway networks or as SIP Proxy. In this way, the VCLEAR™ Class 5 softswitch gives service providers carrier-grade management tools for route selection, provisioning, and call accounting, enabling the connection of multiple H.323 or SIP networks both efficiently and cost effectively.

Because the VCLEAR™ solution supports the most popular VoIP protocols, you have real flexibility to interconnect to any peer network. A call originated in the network can be terminated in H.323, SIP, a peer carrier, or to the PSTN. Calls between devices using any combination of these protocols are supported.

The key to integrating hosted applications

By using a standards-based session protocol like SIP, the VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch can interface with application servers in order to enrich the value proposition with hosted applications like voicemail, unified messaging, conferencing, and others.

Full scalability

No matter what size and scope of offering you want to create, the VCLEAR™ Edge Softswitch can help you get there, through a fully-formed service creation environment in which every service is software defined, enabling you to make it just what you need. What's more, supporting over 7M BHCA (busy hour call attempts) per rack, the VCLEAR™ Class 5 Softswitch can take on the challenges of even the busiest service provider networks.