International VoIP Carrier Benefits from WTL's High-Compression SS7-to-VoIP Gateway, Tightly Integrated with PortaOne's PortaSwitch Softswitch and Converged VoIP Billing Software

COQUITLAM, British Columbia and BRUSSELS, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Global communications infrastructure companies PortaOne, Inc. and World Telecom Labs (WTL) today announced their respective flagship technologies have been deployed at Xplorium, an international VoIP carrier operating in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, South America and Africa. Using the two vendors' tightly integrated platforms, Xplorium is able to easily connect SS7 and VoIP networks, establish new points of presence, compress network traffic while maintaining call quality, and achieve complex billing scenarios, among other benefits.

Xplorium's billing and switching infrastructure achieves Next-Generation Network (NGN) status via the deployment of WTL's SoIP product and PortaOne's PortaSwitch telecom service management platform. SoIP (SS7 over IP) is a compact, high performance and cost effective SS7 to IP gateway providing signaling and media gateway capabilities in a single box. Ideal for ISPs, pure-play VoIP operators or for adding VoIP connectivity to legacy switches, SoIP also employs WTL's Network Optimization Protocol (NOP)--a VoIP compression technique that delivers up to 16:1 compression to increase traffic capacity without sacrificing voice quality.

PortaOne's PortaSwitch is capable of handling the complete call control and converged VoIP billing functions of a diversified digital services company. PortaSwitch lets IP telephony service providers deliver a wide variety of business models quickly and flexibly. The comprehensive product consists of a Class 4 and 5 SIP softswitch and application servers that deliver converged VoIP billing and provisioning, SIP call control, unified messaging, IP Centrex and hosted IP PBX, callback management, IVRs, conferencing and more.

"Xplorium is committed to continually improving its core network with best-of-breed infrastructure. WTL and PortaOne clearly meet these standards," said Mr. Karim el Charif, Technical Director of Xplorium. "WTL switches allow us to reach and expand our services by easily generating new points of presence as needed, while the WTL compression technique helps us increase our traffic capacity. With PortaOne, we can furnish full scale Class 5 communications services including IP Centrex and unified communication, along with very reliable and flexible VoIP billing scenarios."

"It's exciting to see a valued partner like Xplorium optimize its service offering using WTL SoIP and NOP technologies," noted Simon Pearson, Business Development Director of WTL. "Our NOP delivers great bandwidth, and therefore reduced cost, on Xplorium's long distance links from Africa and the Middle East. What's more, Xplorium's customers report full satisfaction with their call quality, even though each call requires as little as 6 Kbps. And WTL equipment is very easy for Xplorium engineers to set up and manage remotely--a real benefit for a company that serves such a broad geographic area."

Xplorium has standardized on WTL equipment for all its remote Points of Presence (PoPs) as well as at its headquarters site in Paris, France. The same WTL technology is used at all remote sites, whether the site has SS7, Q931 or VoIP connections.

Roman Khalenkov, PortaOne Sales and Marketing Director, commented on the ability of his company's PortaSwitch IMS to interoperate with WTL's SoIP SS7-to-VoIP switch. "Together, PortaSwitch and SoIP comprise a proven and extremely nimble solution," he said. Not only does SoIP make reliable VoIP-to-PSTN connectivity a reality, but in concert with PortaSwitch, it is possible to offer the range of value-added features business customers expect."

To learn more about PortaOne's PortaSwitch, a VoIP billing and softswitch platform, log on to www.portaone.com/products/portaswitch/overview/. Further information on WTL's SoIP can be found at www.wtl.be/products/index.php?s_cat=SoIP%3A+SS7+-%3E+IP+Gateway&m_cat=The+Products.

About PortaOne:

Based in Canada, PortaOne is a leading global vendor of carrier grade software for modern telecommunication service providers. The company enables service providers and carriers to run a broad line of telecommunication services with a single software package, and offers a complete product consisting of fully converged VoIP billing and provisioning platform, class 4 and 5 SIP softswitch to support hosted IPPBX or IPCentrex services, unified messaging, IVR, conferencing applications, callbacks and more. The company's products are a fundamental part of the business infrastructure at over 330 service provider locations worldwide. To learn more, visit www.portaone.com.

About WTL:

World Telecom Labs is a Belgium-based company which has long been a leader in the provision of VoIP switches, Pre-Paid applications and signaling gateways for emerging carriers and telecom service operators. WTL has an installed based of 100,000s of voice ports with service providers worldwide switching billions of minutes of VoIP traffic using WTL equipment. For more information about WTL and its products, please visit www.wtl.be or email sales@wtl.be.

About Xplorium:

Founded in 1996, Xplorium is an international VoIP carrier committed to providing new telecommunications solutions by supplying state-of-the-art services to its clients. Present in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, South America and Africa, the company is devoted to deploying cutting edge technology to ensure clients' competitive advantage. Xplorium's expertise includes enhanced services that exceed conventional telecommunications requirements to include VoIP and Internet applications as well as SMS services, pre-paid calling cards, post-paid corporate accounts and cards, and Direct Inward Dialing (DID) access numbers from numerous countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia Europe and the Middle East. Xplorium is strategically affiliated with Comium Group, a leading group in the provision of New World Telecommunications Services. Visit www.xplorium.com.

    WTL CONTACT:                  XPLORIUM CONTACT:
    Simon Pearson                 Assaad Reda, Commercial Manager
    World Telecom Labs            Xplorium
    +32 272 272 00                +961.1.868686
    sales@wtl.be                  info@xplorium.com

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