Cox Communications awarded a multiyear contract to Nuera Communications Inc. to provide media gateways for its nationwide VoIP deployments. The companies are planning a major VoIP deployment in 2004. Significantly, Cox is choosing Nuera as part of multivendor, PacketCable architecture rather than a single-vendor implementation.
"The mulitvendor, distributed and security characteristics of the PacketCable architecture will enable us to easily deliver our Cox Digital Telephone service offering in our markets," said Jay Rolls, Cox's vice president of Telephone and Data Engineering. "However, we must also deliver the high quality and outstanding performance that the market has come to expect from Cox Digital Telephone."
A significant criteria for selecting Nuera's media gateways was their ability to work with the other vendors in the network, Financial terms were not disclosed.
Cox is currently using the Nuera BTX media gateways in its mulitvendor PacketCable network in Roanoke, Virginia. http://www.nuera.com
- In May 2004, Nortel Networks agreed to integrate, sell and support VoIP gateways from Nuera Communications as part of an integrated PacketCable qualified solution. Both Nortel Networks softswitch and the Nuera media gateway are fully PacketCable qualified. Nuera's Orca BTX-21 and BTX-8 PacketCable qualified gateways complement Nortel Networks VoIP media gateway portfolio, which includes Nortel Networks Passport Packet Voice Gateway (PVG).
