Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems announced a joint VoIP solution targeted at mobile service providers. The solution, which combines the Lucent Softswitch (LSS) and Cisco MGX 8000 Series Media Gateways, is part of Lucent's recently announced Accelerate VoIP portfolio.
The company have demonstrated VoIP and VoATM calling using the joint solution. The calls -- completed in Lucent's Lisle, Illinois lab and in Cisco's San Jose lab -- were made using the H.248 Media Gateway Control Protocol, which allows a Softswitch, serving as the media gateway controller, to communicate with media gateways that are used to convert data from the format required for a circuit- switched network to that required for a packet-switched network. Calls between mobile phones, and from a mobile phone to the PSTN were successfully completed. http://www.lucent.comhttp://www.cisco.com
- In January 2003, Lucent and Cisco Systems announced a partnership under which Lucent is integrating and reselling select Cisco packet data and media gateway products as part of Lucent's mobile networking product offering for the mobile service provider market. Later in 2003 the two companies expanded on their initial, global supply contract and signed a development to collaborate on accelerating the mobile operator market for VoIP.
