VocalTec announces that over 100 telecom service providers and partners have deployed VocalTec’s Essentra VoIP solutions on IBM System X server platforms. Customers are seeking new and innovative ways of deploying Next-Generation Networks that are based on open, IP-based standards. By tapping into the economies of scale afforded by commercial, off the shelf IT technologies, customers are able to dramatically lower their costs while delivering new telecom VoIP integrated services on Class-4 and Class-5 softswitches.

VocalTec serves a wide range of customers including fixed, mobile and wireless service providers, and offers an extensive set of solutions for ILD/NLD service providers, wholesale networks, competitive and alternative carriers, and providers of wired and wireless Class-5 residential and enterprise telephony services. Customers that adopted VocalTec’s Essentra solutions include Mobitel, a Greenfield WiMAX service provider in Nigeria; Mobifon-2000, a licensed service provider offering ILD/NLD services across Russia; Telecom Italia San Marino, providing international wholesale services; Switchward & Trosmann AG, a Swiss carrier offering wholesale ILD and peering services; Nexus Telecom, a Brazilian CLEC providing voice and multimedia services; VMB, providing residential and enterprise telephony services in St. Petersburg Russia; and many other customers worldwide.