Voipex, Nology signs enhancement to distribution agreement

The enhancement to the agreement will deliver a more consistent and focussed technical and development approach to the ISP and Telco sectors for ViBE, a technology that delivers bandwidth optimisation, convergence of voice and data across a single link and superior bonding functionality. Nology have been a distribution partner for Voipex for over 12 months and this enhancement to the agreement rewards Nology's investment in technical and support resources and the high levels of penetration into the tier one, tier two ISP and Telco sectors.

More consistent support service

In signing Nology as their exclusive distribution partner for the ISP and Telco sectors Voipex is able to deliver more focused and consistent technical and support services to their customers in this strategically important sector. Nology's rigorous approach to technical and support excellence makes this a logical decision for Voipex. Furthermore, Nology's experience in the ISP space and their understanding of VoIP, data networking and edge devices means that customers can now receive an integrated solution like never before.

Nology take to market several complimentary technologies for ViBE including the recently launched ViBE enabled Billion 7300NXV and network device management tool OneMS. Taken together these provide for greater management of the ViBE solution on the network via TR069 and auto-provisioning of the CPE device ultimately providing a far more robust and easily manageable solution.

Three times more calls on same bandwidth

"Nology has seen great success with the implementation of VIBE with our customers and we are very excited about the increasing number of VOIP Service Providers becoming ViBE enabled. There is no doubt that ViBE has a key role to play in enabling widespread adoption of carrier-grade VOIP in the South African market, especially over best-effort broadband connections such as ADSL," says Ernst Ohlhoff, VOIP business unit manager at Nology.

"With ViBE, many restrictive qualities of the so-called last mile can be overcome, like allowing three times more calls on the same bandwidth. Since this translates into a more economical use of an Internet connection, it makes VOIP even more attractive and cost-effective. In addition, ViBE is one of the first products that offers byte-level Quality of Service (QoS) over ADSL. This advanced QoS makes it possible to transmit voice and data on the same link, without loss of quality on the voice. Add to that the excellent built-in redundancy and failover facilities of VIBE and you get a product perfectly suited to address the challenges faced in South Africa with VOIP and broadband restrictions," Ohlhoff concludes.