When designing the application software for the Enterprise-CS, developers used an open architecture model that leverages current and future call control vehicles.
The handpicked design team spanned three continents and had the combined goal of designing a single system that is not only flexible, but also capable of becoming the market segment leader.
After many months of research and design, QuadFusion TM Technology was born.
QuadFusionTM Technology Explained
At the core, the Enterprise-CS is a Multimedia Protocol Gateway (MPG) that was designed around the QuadFusionTM Technology.
This is a key factor because it allows customers to leverage the best solution at a given time; yet Enterprise-CS MPG is flexible enough to upgrade to a completely different technology at a later time.
What is QuadFusion TM Technology?
Simply put, Enterprise-CS MPG synergizes four disparate telecommunications standards: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.323, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM).
Each standard has its own strengths and weaknesses. The Enterprise-CS MPG with QuadFusion TM Technology embraces each standard’s strength.
What emerges is an entirely new paradigm of flexible voice communications. Session Initiation Protocol is a stateless, client-server protocol used to establish communication rules on a case-by-case basis for users.
It allows packet-based networks to carry voice, video and data. As a protocol, SIP can establish sessions for features such as audio/videoconferencing and interactive gaming and call forwarding, allowing flexible deployment over IP networks.
Because SIP is an open standard, SIP applications can be rapidly developed and deployed—lowering overall cost. Additionally, any vendor’s SIP application can use the Enterprise-CS MPG for session control.
QuadFusionTM Technology and SIP
SIP trunks are currently changing the business model of telephone companies.
Before SIP, a customer would order trunks from the telephone company. The telephone company, in turn, would run copper to the customer site and charge accordingly.
This creates a long term, fixed relationship between the telephone company and the customer: if the customer wants telephone service, it must be ordered through the telephone company.
SIP trunks, however, remove the inflexible relationship between the telephone company and the customer.
With SIP, customers are free to choose their broadband service (i.e., xDSL, cable or VPN) and purchase their trunks from a variety of SIP trunk providers.br
This eliminates the single-source provider, and gives customer the freedom to choose the service providers that best suit their business needs.
Like SIP, the H.323 protocol is used for on-demand conversations.
Whereas SIP’s primary design was open source communication amongst dissimilar applications, H.323 was designed for real-time voice and video conferencing.
Much narrower in scope, the H.323 stack places an emphasis on voice quality first, followed by video quality.
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