Acromate announced the development of commercial Softswitch on its own technology

Acromate, Inc. announced on 2nd May 2005 that the company has developed ass-SSW, acromate softswitch, on its own technology. ass-SSW offers an innovative software architecture to target Class 4 and Class 5 replacement markets as well as wireless markets through a single build.

The ass-SSW provides Multiple Services Support for Voice, Video and Data for both Fixed and Mobile Networks. The ass-SSW product meets the carrier class requirement of high density, high availability and reliability. It can be easily integrated into different system architectures, to suit a variety of customer requirements.
Acromate, Inc, also announced it that ass-SSW is intend to participate in KT(Korea Telecom) BMT to
Compare to rival products including Notel Netowrks.

Acromate, Inc. (www.acromate.com)

Aromate, Inc. has focused on development of IP telephony solutions ever since its establishment on April 2000. The company is the leader of Korea VoIP market who has developed the core network nodes for VoIP network establishment such as softswitch, IP PBX, IP Centex and Media Server on its own technology as well as core commercial protocol stacks such as SIP, H.323, MGCP/MEGACO and high availability package.

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Four consortia picked for second phase BcN project

The government yesterday picked four consortia, led by Dacom Corp., SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and cable operator C&M Co., to take up trial operations of the second-stage network project for converged telecom and broadcast services.
The Ministry of Information and Communication announced the results of its review that four groups scored over 70 points out of 100, in their bid for the second-phase broadband convergence network trial project, which is planned to start later this year.

The broadband convergence network is designed to deliver internet access at speeds of 50Mbps to 100Mbps, about 50 times faster than current conventional services, with nationwide coverage. The first-phase trial project was carried out in 2004-2005.

Cable operators for the first time joined licensed BcN consortia, thus eligible for the government's support.

Telecom operators, broadcasters, equipment manufacturers, solution/content providers will jointly participate in the two-year-long trial project.

"Interoperability has utmost importance in the second-phase BcN project. We will promote technology standardization among different operators and system makers," said Woo Young-gyu at the ministry's infotech infrastructure team....