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Overview
P4’s Managed Communications Services
are designed to help your business evolve to the next
generation of converged communication services while
leveraging your existing investments. Enhancing employee
productivity, reducing operational expenses and gaining
the efficiencies of a unified network help you attain
the leading edge over your competition. P4’s
Managed VoIP Services are delivered with the quality
of service, reliability and security required for your
mission critical business communications. Powering
these services is a world-class global, IP network,
which is standards-based and designed to support protocols
such as Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) and H.323.
These protocols provide interoperability, high-quality,
security and scalability that your business needs for
next-generation communication applications.
P4 offers
a broad portfolio of Managed Communication Solutions
designed to help you achieve your business
objectives at the pace your business requires.
- Carrier
Services – P4voiceSM provides
large enterprise customers who have already deployed
VoIP premise
equipment to interface with the Public Switched
Telephone Network
(PSTN) without the need for expensive gateways
or redundant telco access facilities. P4voiceSM helps you
maximize
your networking investment by providing you
with high quality voice communications that can
seamlessly
connect
your entire enterprise
- Business Continuity -
Your business needs to be operational regardless
of local or national external events,
P4voiceSM services give you the flexibility to route
voice calls to out of region switching locations via
the public internet while maintaining the high quality & secure
environment your business depends on. Whether
your employees are located at headquarters
or a remote office,
they can all benefit from P4voiceSM business
continuity.
- Multi-media Communications - As
your company’s
multi-media needs increase to include desk
top video conferencing, document sharing and web-conferencing,
P4’s IP network infrastructure will
provide critical VoIP services to help
you gain new
efficiencies and
capabilities as you serve your customers.
Carrier
Services
P4voiceSM enables carriers
and service providers to extend their service
reach
to the enterprise
and offer
a broad set of real-time capabilities including
voice VPNs, and local and long distance
termination. More
importantly, carriers can also establish
a robust foundation to address the complexities
of delivering
multiple
real-time services to the enterprise. Enterprise
users desire mobility with new and enhanced
services, but
also want PSTN-like performance, availability,
and SLA assurances.
To meet customer expectations,
carriers must seamlessly support a broad range of
enterprise
devices in
a variety of customer environments. The
proliferation of IP phones
and PBXs within the enterprise has forced
the carrier to support H.323 based solutions
such as Cisco
Call
Manager. At the same time, SIP based
networks are emerging as service providers are deploying
infrastructure
to
prepare themselves for the flexible and
collaborative applications being developed
for SIP. This
is evident by the growing number of hosted
PBX applications
that are being deployed to service small
and medium sized
enterprise locations and telecommuters
working from home. Carriers must adapt
to this environment
using
a multi-vendor and multi-service technology
strategy that ensures maximum service
reach
to any endpoint,
while also simplifying their core network
and service delivery platforms for greater
operational efficiencies.
P4voice’s
Optimized Performance Intelligent (OPI)
platform enables carriers to interface
with a broader set of IP PBXs, and abstracts
call signaling from other
policies such as traffic management and
call routing. This capability is a key
service enabler that integrates
traditional voice services via SIP based
media gateways, hosted SIP based voice
services, and H.323 connectivity
for IP PBXs supporting both voice and
desktop video. Carriers can use the authentication,
authorization,
and call admission control capabilities
of the P4voice’s
OPI platform to manage real-time traffic
and monitor the utilization of network
resources
(e.g. bandwidth,
feature servers, and media gateways).
In addition, advanced features such as
OPI
routing which
provides real-time QoS call routing,
selective media routing
which routes media only when session
endpoints are in different enterprise
locations.
And NAT-traversal,
which enables connectivity to users working
from home or on-the-road, ensures optimum
use of network resources.
- Direct connectivity to multiple Tier-1 backbones
within each service point - an aggregation of
the best global and regional infrastructures around the world.
- Optimal path selection across backbones to any
point in the world through proprietary performance-based
routing algorithms.
- Dynamic failover across all of the interconnected
backbones and associated systems.
- An intelligent, network-based service platform
for centralized service creation and delivery
on demand.
Management and Monitoring
P4voiceSM is a fully managed
service, proactively monitored and managed 24x7x365
from
our Global Enterprise Management
Center. The center
actively probes your voice network to ensure
that appliances and
software
are active and functioning properly
to ensure your voice calls travel over the
best-performing path
based on latency, packet delivery
and jitter measurements.
Enhanced Security
P4 goes to great lengths to ensure
security of your voice communications.
Encryption is standard
between
all of your locations, and
P4 integrates an array of critical security
capabilities
such as firewalls,
strong
authentication and virus
scanning and attack prevention. |
