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FREE TELECOM CHOOSES CIRPACK TELEPHONE SWITCHING EQUIPMENT TO BUILD ITS NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
CIRPACK announced that Free Telecom is deploying CIRPACKs public switching solutions to consolidate its national network and to allow it to carry both voice calls and Internet traffic.
CIRPACK, a leading vendor of next generation telephony equipment for telecom operators infrastructures, recently announced that Free Telecom is deploying CIRPACKs public switching solutions. This Agreement demonstrates that CIRPACK can deliver innovative technologies which make it possible to offer new services whilst cutting back on investment (CAPEX) and costs (OPEX). The decision will consolidate CIRPACKs lead in the market for convergent telephony infrastructure.
Free Telecom selected CIRPACK solutions to consolidate its national network in order to optimize coverage and cope with increased traffic, as well as to enable it to carry both voice calls and Internet traffic. CIRPACK Transit Nodes collect telephone calls originating from each of the eighteen regional transit zones in France Telecoms collector network, directing Internet traffic to Frees IP network and telephone calls to its SDH network.
By installing CIRPACK Transit Nodes, Free Telecom is optimizing its national telephony infrastructure and giving it advanced features to quickly implement an aggressive expansion strategy," says Franck Brunel, Free Telecoms CEO. Our network now has all the value-added telephone services which make it possible to win over new customers," he adds.
CIRPACK Transit Nodes can be upgraded very quickly via a simple software download to a Local Exchange Switch with Class-5 services. This allows Free Telecom to directly deliver a comprehensive range of telephone services. By using DSL infrastructure in the context of unbundling, Free will be able to connect up its subscribers directly and offer them affordable voice services plus high-speed Internet access.
Despite the general downturn in the telecom market, there are some alternative vendors such as CIRPACK who have escaped the crisis," explains Jean-Pierre Dumolard, CIRPACKs CEO. Our solutions make it possible to build extremely high performance telephone infrastructure while cutting the level of investment by 50%. CIRPACK currently offers carriers the fastest returns on investment and the lowest operating costs. This approach has wrong footed traditional vendors who have not modernized their product offerings and are trying to protect their installed base rather than innovating."
CIRPACK Transit Nodes are the perfect answer to Free Telecoms strategic needs: 50% lower acquisition costs, 70% lower operating costs, access to all the functions of legacy telephone exchanges, a wide choice of new services aimed at end users, and the facility to connect any type of appropriate local loop (DSL, WLL, cable, etc.). In addition, this solution which has already been field proven by other alternative carriers and has been deployed extremely quickly, allowing unrestricted interconnection with France Telecom.
About CIRPACK Transit Nodes
The CIRPACK Transit Node is a Next Generation telephone transit switch which can handle any type of traffic and all the protocols in an operators infrastructure network (TDM, ATM and IP). It is a carrier-class high density open equipment which integrates several transmission interfaces (fiber and copper), with software that manages all Class-4 transit services needed to build a powerful, universal transit network.
CIRPACK Transit Nodes offer Free Telecom many benefits:
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- New long-haul (national and international) voice services
- Internet access by modem anywhere in France
- Rich functionality, with extensive upgrade capacity
- Installation and commissioning takes just days rather than months
- Purchase price is 50% less than legacy solutions
- Cost of use is 70% less than legacy solutions
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About CIRPACK
CIRPACK is a leading equipment vendor for telecom operators converged voice infrastructure (PSTN). Our universal open platform supports simultaneous TDM, ATM and IP voice traffics and protocols. CIRPACK solutions are fast and easy to deploy and allow savings of 50% in CAPEX (investments costs) and 70% in OPEX (operating costs). CIRPACK deployed the world largest SoftSwitch-based TDM/Packet PSTN, supporting 100% of this operators voice revenues, as early as 1998. In the current telephony revolution, CIRPACK is the only vendor offering a non-disruptive carrier-class platform supporting any migration path from legacy proprietary TDM switches to the open packet-telephony model (NGN). CIRPACKs telephony platform is highly scalable and can be changed to any converged telephony element by a simple software download.
CIRPACK is headquartered in Suresnes near Paris, with subsidiaries in the United States and Great Britain. CIRPACKs customers include Kaptech, Tiscali, Soleos, Free Telecom and MTE among others. For more information, please visit www.cirpack.com or contact info@cirpack.com.
About Free Telecom
Founded in 1999, Free Telecom is a French alternative operator owning all the necessary licenses (infrastructure and services) issued by the public authorities. Fully interconnected with France Telecom since April 2001, Free Telecom is also one of the few alternative operators involved with local loop unbundling for the consumer market. Within less than two years, Free Telecom has become a major and recognized player in the French telecommunications landscape.
Free Telecom (www.freetelecom.com) collects telephone traffic for certain carriers and has introduced flat-rate Internet access for the consumer market at $14 for fifty hours per month. It also handles traffic collection for Free, the largest free Internet Service Provider (www.free.fr), recently voted the "surfers' favorite IP" for the second time in a row (Benchmark Group research carried out on behalf of L'Internaute - Le Journal du Net [The Surfer - Web Journal], November 2001). Free Telecom is a member of the Interconnection Committee and also the AFORS [French Association of Network Operators and Telecom Service Providers].
Free Telecom is a 100%-owned subsidiary of the Illiad Group.
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