VoIP infrastructure provider General Bandwidth has added a new capability to its G6 Universal Media Gateway, which helps service providers migrate from legacy to next-generation services.
The platform now includes an integrated emergency standalone capability for service providers to enable softswitch control of their circuit-based access networks while maintaining local and emergency services when communications are lost with the regional softswitches.
The gateway interoperates with leading softswitches using standards-based interfaces and scales to meet the needs of distributed softswitch trunking deployments, including support for CALEA, E911 and security. The platform also allows softswitch control of legacy, circuit-based access plant and ESM control when softswitch communications are severed.
General Bandwidth further designed the solution to provide reverse and trunking gateway functions simultaneously within the same chassis allowing, for example, a softswitch-controlled call from the legacy access plant to traverse through the IP network or be trunked to the PSTN.
