VoIP services expanding to remote regions of Africa

Details: James Barton; Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 21 March 2013; 4774 views

A major pan-African telecoms provider is boosting its service capacity by 40% to deliver communication access in some of Africa’s fastest growing markets...

A major pan-African telecoms provider is boosting its service capacity by 40% to deliver communication access in some of Africa’s fastest growing markets. EvoxTrading is deploying the SBC 5200 solution from Sonus Networks in order to secure its network border, deliver voice termination services and provide interconnect capabilities to its carrier partners.

The uptake of VoIP, which has been deregulating across many African countries since mid-2000, is often linked to growing economies with the delivery of advanced voice services and more cost effective access to rural and under-served areas. The new platform is aimed at meeting growing demand for more reliable, scalable and higher performing VoIP and SIP services.

“Africa is a rapidly growing market, leap-frogging ‘legacy’ technologies to take advantage of the cost savings and enhanced services that can be enabled with VoIP and SIP,” said Serge Adam, vice president of EMEA at Sonus.

“We have seen growing demand for next generation VoIP and SIP services in Africa,” added Romain Boulet, sales director, Evox. “The performance and flexibility of the Sonus solution means we can provide new services and greater capacity to customers and partners in the region and help accelerate Africa as an emerging market.”

The solution provides security, media switching and transcoding services in a single scalable device. This infrastructure will also provide an intelligent SIP interconnection capability between EVOX and their carrier partner networks.