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deltathree (News - Alert), Inc., a provider of SIP-based integrated VoIP telephony services, products, and hosted solutions, caters to the needs of service providers and consumers globally. Recently the company launched a highly advanced network telephony backend infrastructure to enhance the features and flexibility of its Open Network Platform.

Designed and developed within the company premises and spanning two years, the Open Network Platform, although specifically created for deltathree’s consumers using joip, extends a wide range of benefits, such as, improvised quality of service and growth opportunities to its reseller and hosted consumer VoIP solution channels as well. joip is deltathree’s newly launched consumer brand that fuels the VoIP service offered by Panasonic’s GLOBARANGE hybrid landline or VoIP phones. It allows GLOBARANGE users direct access to a highly advanced IP network, rendering free peer-to-peer calling and other premium services.

Effi Baruch, senior vice president of operations and technology at deltathree, said in a statement, “With this recent network advancement, deltathree reaffirms its commitment to continually enhancing its products and services to offer its customers the maximum advantages that VoIP technology holds.”

“While originally developed to support joip’s initiative to build a global community based on advanced VoIP communications and features, the Open Network Platform also positively moves forward the objectives of our reseller and hosted consumer VoIP solution customers. With greater billing options and control, deltathree's service provider customers are able to strategize the most effective route that conforms to and builds upon their business models. Through new network and telephony features, a heightened level of flexibility emerges for these customers as well as for consumers, giving them further ease in using VoIP and expanding relationships,” Baruch added.

The Open Network Platform benefits GLOBARANGE’s subscribers immensely by letting them enjoy the latest in VoIP technology and granting them access to a global joip community, wherein members can call each other globally free of charge.

The dynamic Open Network Solution benefits the company’s hosted consumer VoIP solution and reseller customers by furnishing service providers with enhanced load capacity and flexibility to assist third party components at the time of call flows.

The hosted consumer VoIP offering is a complete turnkey solution, offering service providers the least possible investment with easy and quick distribution facilities to deploy their own VoIP networks. Its integration with the Open Network Solution promises additional business advantages to service providers. For instance, it renders simplified VoIP integration solutions to manage local emergency calls, directory assistance and other localized dialing services via a user-friendly interface, thereby reducing integration costs incurred while scaling new markets.

deltathree’s latest network is fuelled with advanced features, aiding its subscribers in interpreting “*” codes, setting network error messages in languages of their preference, adhering to country-wise regulations while formatting phone numbers and routing them accordingly with less prefixes.

By rendering a unique real-time function to the call-rating engine, Open Network Platform allows service providers to enable or disable inbound and outbound calls, allocate differential fees and rates to varied service levels, add or remove features offered to customers using an easy-to-use management interface, and exercise stringent cost control.

This rating feature also aids in rounding; ascertaining grace periods, connection fees, minimum call charges and rates per call.

Panasonic will market its GLOBARANGE joip-enabled phones this summer in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Austria and Russia.

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Rahul Prabhakar is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.