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Covergence

Covergence and IBM BladeCenter - helping enable the delivery of secure, reliable, manageable realtime services

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.

Services, Control, Transport, Access. BladeCenter H. Chassis BladeCenter H. Blade HS21 (Intel). Memory 8GB DDR2. Other Linux, BroadWorks, Covergence Eclipse Session, Management Software.

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.

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