Alcatel has acquired a system from Aravox Technologies designed for carrier-to-carrier VoIP interconnect and for supporting IP PBXs. The Aravox session border controller, which is based on the IETF Midcom standard, makes real-time packet peering over IP secure. It also ensures QoS and high availability of network resources to the end-to-end communications it controls. Alcatel said it would offer the session border controller as part of its Alcatel 5020 Softswitch solutions. The acquisition was finalized in December 2002. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Alcatel Acquires VoIP Session Border Controller from Aravox
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