GENBAND to Showcase Business Collaboration Applications, Traffic Management and Security Innovations at Comptel Event

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GENBAND, a leading developer of IP solutions and services, today announced it will showcase a variety of advanced IP business communications, traffic management and security solutions at the Fall 2010 Comptel PLUS Convention and Expo (booth #108) on Sept. 12-15 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. GENBAND’s industry-leading suite of IP solutions help service providers generate new revenue streams, reduce costs and increase subscriber growth and loyalty.

“GENBAND is well positioned to help carriers strengthen their competitive advantage by delivering advanced IP services that significantly improve the communication experience for subscribers”

As part of the Comptel PLUS Technology Track, Micaela Giuhat, GENBAND’s vice president of product marketing, will participate in the “IP Interconnections” panel session at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept.13. The session will examine how the migration of switched traffic to VoIP creates many possibilities for changing the way calls and services are delivered, potentially bypassing layers of complexity that can introduce unnecessary costs and quality issues.

“GENBAND is well positioned to help carriers strengthen their competitive advantage by delivering advanced IP services that significantly improve the communication experience for subscribers,” said Mehmet Balos, Chief Marketing Officer, GENBAND. “At Comptel, we will showcase breakthrough innovations ranging from the latest in web-based Unified Communications (UC) collaboration to improved traffic and policy management to session border control advances for video. We will show how our solutions equip service providers to plan and manage their networks more efficiently, reduce network congestion and decrease costs.”

GENBAND Comptel booth highlights:

Demonstrating its ability to improve the way people conduct business and collaborate, GENBAND will showcase a variety of solutions from its A-Series™ Application Portfolio, including an integrated web-based UC collaboration application that allows users to instantly shift from conference calls to full, rich-media web collaboration. For example, a conference call host can quickly initiate a group collaboration session and enable their team the ability to view and collaborate on a document over the web without having to schedule a web meeting service. The application also enables public and private chat, interactive whiteboards, poll surveys and synchronized web browsing.
GENBAND subject matter experts will be on hand to discuss the Company’s leading-edge traffic and policy management solutions enabled by the GENBAND P Series™ product family. Visitors to the booth will see GENBAND’s LiveView™ traffic management client, which allows service providers and enterprises to more accurately track and understand network usage and traffic patterns so that they can perform more proactive and intelligent network planning and traffic management.
GENBAND’s booth will also feature the S-Series™ Session Border Controllers and security product family and a presentation of GENBAND’s Real-time Session Management System™ (RSM), which provides centralized and remote access to control multiple S3™ Session Border Controllers. With the RSM, service providers can significantly reduce network costs and improve network efficiencies through better management and routing of high-bandwidth VoIP and multimedia services, such as video.

According to Infonetics, Synergy, and Dell’Oro, GENBAND is the #1 supplier in the global service provider VoIP market, which includes softswitches, media gateways, session border controllers, media servers and application servers. In addition, according to Infonetics, GENBAND is the leading carrier IP softswitch supplier in North America, with more than 60 percent revenue share.

About Comptel PLUS

COMPTEL PLUS is the preeminent networking event for innovative communications companies. Held twice a year, these events attract more than 140 unique exhibitors and 2,800 different attendees, who have the opportunity to learn about new products, services and industry trends, meet potential customers and do business. COMPTEL PLUS offers comprehensive educational programming and experienced industry speakers. The COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2010 Convention & EXPO is scheduled for September 12-15, 2010, at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Dallas. For more information, please visit http://comptel.org/content.asp?contentid=2153.

About GENBAND

GENBAND is a global leader of IP infrastructure solutions. The company offers market-leading Switching, Networking and Service solutions, with products deployed in over 600 customer networks spanning more than 80 countries. GENBAND is headquartered in Plano, Texas, has legal entities in nearly 50 countries and operates product, sales and service Centers of Excellence globally. To learn more, visit us on the web at www.genband.com.

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