Highlights
"The CXC not only centralizes applications and network connections within the compact IBM BladeCenter chassis, but also allows customers to extend IP Telephony and Unified Communications to remote users across fixed and mobile devices."
— Bob O'Neil CEO and President Covergence
Reliable carrier-grade realtime services on an open platform
The Covergence CXC family of Session Border Controllers (SBC) enables telecommunications service providers to deploy new IP Telephony and Unified Communications solutions to help comply with their stringent security policies, regulatory requirements and established business practices.
- Help reduce the time and cost of deploying next-generation realtime services.
- Help deliver secure, reliable and manageable connections to realtime services without additional hardware.
- Rapidly deploy new services such as presence-enabled instant messaging (IM), audio, video and others.
- Help lower total cost of operation and improve infrastructure flexibility.
Sample Configuration diagram
Architecture: Control layer
Chassis
BladeCenter H, BladeCenter HT, BladeCenter E, BladeCenter T
Processor
HS21 with minimum 8 GB DRAM, dual 2.66 GHz dual-core or quad-core Xeons, 2 x 73 GB HDD.
Other
Covergence Eclipse Session Management Software
Covergence and IBM: a winning combination
Realtime services, such as IP Telephony and Unified Communications, consist of application servers, databases, applications, control infrastructure and management processes. The IBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform for the deployment of these services because telecommunications service providers and enterprises can consolidate this workload onto a single, platform to help reduce operating costs and complexity.
To learn more about this solution
Download the solution brochure PDF (816KB) Press release: Nianet Chooses Covergence Session Manager & IBM BladeCenter to Deploy & Manage VoIP & Next-Generation Services Press release: Nuvio Chooses Covergence to Manage Real-time Sessions through IBM BladeCenter Press release: Covergence Announces Support for IBM BladeCenter® Visit the web site
