Potentiality of Softswitches

Get away with the traditional switches and put your hands on softswitch. The latter takes up the functionality of the calling agent and accumulate it all in the software which is further loaded into the personal computer. It takes upon itself the responsibility of various things like call routing, billing, call services, signalling etc. In addition to that, it also takes care of Media Gateways over aTCP/IP link. Different media streams are connected to create an end to end voice call. It has the ability to connect different networks like E1, PSTN, and STM etc.

The most distinguishing service is its ability to handle retail as well as carrier services. There are two types of soft switches available...class 4 switch and class 5. Class 4 is in most of the cases used in between two operators. You can very easily use it in the long distance calls where a call is routed from a usual operator to the one using switch. On the other hand, class 5 softswitch is used in the cases where switch is directly connected with the end user. An appropriate example can be switches used at telephone exchanges.

Class 5 softswitch is the next generation softswitch including voice, fax, data and incessant video traffic. High class programs allow it to break up the information into packets and header. Routing instructions required by the switch are all given. It can also support signalling protocols over TDM/VoIP.

Softswitches have another option as well...that of hosted softswitches service. This way you can keep the softswitches at your premises and attain its benefit as well. Logical divisions are created in it and each partition can get the access to his/her exclusive data, signalling, IP, CDRs and switching functionality. The owner although has an edge over it. He can see all the operations and functionality.

There are not much difficulties including in it. It is easy to set up, manage and maintain. As the business grows, the carrier can push it up further and boost its personal capacity. All these efforts lead to cost savings and increase in the efficiency levels.

If you have VoIP soft Switch, you automatically possess an advanced switching platform and billing management solution. This service has Genband switch access which is considered as market standard in wholesale voice switching, premium IP bandwidth. It has flexible pricing plan and 24X7 supports.

With advanced features, you must grab one immediately.