RNK TELECOM CHOOSES NEXTONE INTELLICONNECT SYSTEM TO OPTIMIZE SECURITY, QoS FOR ReVoS VOICE-OVER-IP AND WHOLESALE VOICE SERVICES

NexTone Platform Installed, Configured, and Optimized Production Services for RNK
Within One Week of Receipt of Order

CORE NEWS FACTS

• RNK Telecom®, a next-generation competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) headquartered in Massachusetts, has purchased and deployed NexTone's IntelliConnect™ System to optimize and secure its new ReVoS family of direct-to-consumer Internet voice services and its RNKVoIP® family of wholesale services.  RNK Telecom selected NexTone over other vendors because of the comprehensive nature of the IntelliConnect solution, which provides both line-side and trunk-side security, management, and control of real-time services.
• NexTone’s IntelliConnect System helps RNK manage all aspects of network interconnects for real-time services and applications, including end-user policies, service connectivity, multi-vendor interoperability, and traffic management.  The NexTone IntelliConnect System purchased by RNK includes the NexTone SBC, a standalone Session Border Controller for securing bilateral interconnects; the NexTone MSX, a Multiprotocol Session Exchange platform for interconnecting SIP and H.323 networks; and the NexTone Real-time Session Manager (RSM), which allows RNK to dynamically manage and optimize its services from the network core. 
• For line-side protection, RNK has deployed the NexTone SBC in front of its ReVoS feature servers to protect them from security attacks and to handle NAT traversal for customers with devices behind firewalls.  For additional security, the SBC acts as a SIP proxy for the feature servers to prevent Denial of Service attacks and service theft.
• On the trunk side, RNK is using the NexTone MSX as a Class 4 softswitch to support both origination and termination of RNKVoIP wholesale and prepaid services, which RNK sells as private-label services to broadband providers, carriers, and retail distributors nationwide.  Currently RNK supports more than 400 million minutes of VoIP traffic per month through its wholesale and prepaid services.
• The NexTone RSM in the core of the RNK network provides dynamic policy enforcement capabilities, using NexTone's unique Dynamic Policy Management™ (DPM) technology.  With NexTone’s DPM technology, the RSM can communicate with SBCs and MSX systems deployed at the edge to automatically control interconnects used by real-time sessions and to optimize service quality, availability, and network capacity.
• Within one week of the order from RNK, NexTone was able to configure and integrate the solution to the RNK requirements—including loading routing tables, customer and supplier rates, and creating business policies and rules via the NexTone RSM—and support live, billable traffic in a production environment.  Additionally, NexTone’s IntelliConnect system connected easily to RNK Telecom’s existing legacy TDM and IP infrastructure.

COMMENTARY

• Richard Koch, president, CEO, and co-founder of RNK – “The NexTone solution is ideal for RNK because it helps us both optimize margins on our bread-and-butter wholesale services, while enabling us to offer the highest quality of service and service-level agreements for our new premium ReVoS services.  The scalability of the modular IntelliConnect system—supporting both core and edge intelligence—also makes it extremely well designed for RNK, which has enjoyed record growth and expansion over the last two years.”
• Dan Dearing, vice president of marketing, NexTone Communications – “There are a common set of growing pains, such as managing traffic for different types of sessions and managing network connectivity to multiple, diverse end user devices, for carriers like RNK Telecom to continue to integrate their traditional TDM business and VoIP models and infrastructures, and other real-time services.  NexTone can help carriers introduce new efficiencies into their wholesale service structures to improve margins, while at the same time delivering the kinds of visibility and control that are required to support higher-margin real-time services like VoIP.”
• Brian Partridge, senior analyst, The Yankee Group — “NexTone is well served by focusing on dynamic policy management and real-time session control because both are critical as networks evolve to next-generation architectures.”

MULTIMEDIA SUPPORT

• The NexTone IntelliConnect System
• How Dynamic Policy Management Works

About RNK Telecom
RNK Inc., founded in 1992, does business as RNK Telecom and RNKVoIP, and is a global telecommunications services provider headquartered in Dedham, MA. Through its unmatched operational efficiency, industry expertise and technical innovation, RNK delivers superior products and profit margins to broadband providers, carriers and retail distributors worldwide.

RNKVoIP, a division of RNK Telecom, is the VoIP private label wholesaler for broadband providers, CLECs, cable providers and entrepreneurs. When its roots as a telephone company are combined with the company’s technical innovation and operational efficiency, RNKVoIP delivers superior products and profit margins to its customers. For additional information call 888-642-9831 or visit www.rnktel.com, or www.RNKVoIP.com.

About NexTone Communications
NexTone Communications® provides an intelligent session management system that gives service providers and other network operators seamless, secure, and scalable session connectivity between diverse IP and IMS networks.  NexTone’s IntelliConnect™ system provides intelligent IP interconnects that enable a common way for operators to exchange, secure, monitor, control, and bill for voice and multimedia sessions flowing through IP networks for instant connectivity and quality compatibility to rapidly add new revenue-generating services, including real-time data, video and interactive gaming, and fixed-mobile convergence. More than 500 service providers and enterprises worldwide use NexTone’s IntelliConnect system to accelerate revenue by continually managing technical complexities, optimizing business economics, and eliminating partnership hurdles. The company is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, with domestic and international sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.nextone.com.

TECHNORATI/del.ici.ous/digg TAGS
VoIP, peering, session border controller