Getting Past The PRI: Bring Your Own QOS

The next phase of EtherSpeak’s SIP Trunking for ShoreTel, Microsoft OCS / Lync, Cisco, Allworx, Zultys and others customers is about providing options for Quality of Service delivered, without complexity, to enterprise Wide Area Network customers. An Enterprise wide-area-network solution that makes sense, is standards based, solid service level agreements and now may be delivered as a heterogeneous solution.

With EtherSpeak, the SIP provider and MPLS provider can now be bridged between different carrier MPLS networks. Although customers want great savings, they also demand flexibility and reliability – with contract based (SLA) assurances that the call goes through reliably, securely and in the highest quality manner as possible. EtherSpeak now provides connectivity options either via customer purchase of an EtherSpeak / Level 3 based MPLS network – or simply by adding EtherSpeak’s major SIP gateways as a site on an existing Tier 1 MPLS network from providers like Verizon / MCI; AT&T; ACC Business and Paetec (some restrictions and limitations may apply).

What is Quality of Service? Taken from Wikipedia, “In the field of computer networking and other packet-switched telecommunication networks, the traffic engineering term quality of service (QoS) refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. Quality of service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. For example, a required bit rate, delay, jitter, packet dropping probability and/or bit error rate may be guaranteed. Quality of service guarantees are important if the network capacity is insufficient, especially for real-time streaming multimedia applications such as voice over IP, online games and IP-TV, since these often require fixed bit rate and are delay sensitive, and in networks where the capacity is a limited resource, for example in cellular data communication”.

EtherSpeak's Bring Your Own QOS...

What makes our approach different? You can buy an EtherSpeak / Level 3 Communications powered MPLS network. You may also simply add EtherSpeak SIP Points of Presence to your existing (tier one) MPLS network. Simply add our data center sites by contacting your existing carrier and adding (one or more) of our SIP sites to your customer MPLS network primarily for sending and receiving SIP based SDP and RTP traffic. We will “plug” into your customer network from one of major data center locations that are geographically dispersed. Never has there been such a capability for providing customers next generation voice, fax and video origination and termination with such vendor agnostic approach.

Our MPLS provides a unique mix of core services:
1) Private wide area network with quality / class of service guarantees
2) Availability of Internet injected over MPLS
3) Capability for effectively eliminating the need for PRI, POTs and Fax lines throughout your multi-site enterprise enabling huge savings; enhanced security (MPLS is encrypted); Everything you need for high-quality voice by moving to SIP with QOS.

If you are interested in more information, give us a call at (703) 221-9999 and we will schedule a webinar to discuss your needs and help you calculate the savings for moving your voice, fax and video traffic to EtherSpeak’s nimble, reliable and diverse SIP network powered by Level 3 Communications.

Sincerely,

Neil Darling
EtherSpeak