Quintum Technologies Radically Reduces Cost of VoIP Call Management with Introduction of Tenor GateKeeper
Self-contained, standalone H.323-compliant call routing/administration solution offers customers savings of more than 75% over PC-based solutions
OCTOBER 16, 2001 Atlanta, GA
Quintum Technologies, a leading innovator in VoIP technology, today announced the availability of the new Tenor GatekeeperÔ, a standalone hardware/software solution for managing VoIP call routing. Tenor Gatekeeper provides comprehensive call routing and administration for all H.323 VoIP endpoints on customers’ network, including VoIP gateways, IP phones and PC clients. It dynamically self-configures its high-performance VoIP routing database and delivers connectivity to end-points outside customers’ own VoIP networks using “static” routing.
Just as importantly, as a self-contained hardware solution, Tenor Gatekeeper provides a significantly lower cost-per-simultaneous-call than competing products – offering service provider and enterprise customers savings of more than 75% over PC-based solutions.
“One of the advantages of standards-based solutions over proprietary ones should be lower cost to technology buyers. But, until now, that lower pricing hasn’t manifested for H.323 call management,” said Chuck Rutledge, Vice President of Marketing for Quintum. “With the Tenor Gatekeeper, however, Quintum is now offering per-call pricing that’s substantially lower than that of our erstwhile competitors. For service providers, that means higher margins. For enterprise customers, that means higher ROI.”
Mr. Rutledge also noted that many VoIP implementers prefer using a dedicated device for call-route management, rather than having such functions integrated into their switching fabric. “From a systems administration point-of-view, they just feel more comfortable separating the CPU on which their call-route database resides from their actually VoIP switching infrastructure.”
The Tenor Gatekeeper provides many functions that are particularly attractive to service providers, including the ability to balance call loads across multiple gateways and robust authentication/authorization tools.
are very pleased with the scalability, performance and automated call control that Quintum’s Tenor Gatekeeper provides,” said William Chance, Operations Manager of Chance Telecom. “The combination of the Gatekeeper with Quintum’s Tenor MultiPath Switch has proven to be an extremely reliable and cost-effective architecture for our new VoIP service offerings.”
Quintum’s Tenor Gatekeeper “base” unit sells for 000. Additional 100-call increments are available for 500 each. Competitors sell 20-call increments for 000 and more.
About Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET) provides network and VoIP solutions to enterprises and government agencies that seek to reduce the cost to
deploy next generation unified and secure communications applications. For a quarter of a century, NET has delivered solutions for multi-service networks
requiring high degrees of versatility, security and performance. Today, the company’s broad family of products enable interoperability and integration with
existing networks for migration to secure IP-based communications.
Broadening NET’s voice solutions, Quintum Technologies, now a part of NET, is a VoIP innovator whose applications bring the reliability and clarity of
public telephone networks to Internet telephony and unified communications. NET is headquartered in Fremont, CA and has 14 offices worldwide including the
US, the UK, France, the Middle East, China, Japan, Australia, and Latin America. The company sells its solutions through a direct sales force and an
international network of resellers and distributors. For more information, visit http://www.quintum.com.
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