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Sky C&C Information Technology is a major provider of internet and communication services within Mongolia, and took advantage of Squire Technologies’ innovative MGC (Media Gateway Controller), a remotely installed SS7 to VoIP solution, which remains as a central component within their network.

Davaajamts Choindon, Technical Director

“Sky C&C required an immediate solution providing an SS7 interface to PSTN with our Cisco AS5350s and ZTE switches, as well as implementing a billing module and RADIUS support.

We were looking for a carrier grade solution that would terminate SS7 and provide full support for VoIP. Squire Technologies’ software only solution, which bridges PSTN to VoIP and supports third party gateways, including Cisco media gateways, satisfied all our requirements.”

“Interfacing and supporting our existing infrastructure was essential to ensure a high ROI, therefore by utilising the Cisco AS5350s and supporting SIGTRAN and ISUP, we were able to capitalise on Squire Technologies’ powerful and cost effective solution. Once we realised this software only alternative, making the decision was easy. Squires then demonstrated how quickly and simply we could be making calls.”

Simon Dinnage, Sales Director Squire Technologies

“As a software only solution, the SVI MGC (media gateway controller) deployment delivers to the customer all the benefits of a carrier-grade solution without requiring the level of investment or effort that a physical switch would demand.

Worldwide many network operators with an incumbent Cisco, AudioCodes or Lucent gateway architecture regularly have found this product provides all the necessary functionality and quality of service, while offering full support for many SS7 variants.”

Stour Marine is a new UK based mobile phone operator, operating in the unlicensed bands, WiFi & WiMAX. Stour Marine required a Media Gateway with the capability to manage both its TDM connections and its IP connectivity supporting full VoIP implementation as well as managing its inbound and outbound voice calls via its Cable & Wireless connections. The Squire Media Gateway is a key component of Stour Marines IMS core network.

Ian MacIver, CEO

“We were looking for a carrier grade Media Gateway with the reliability to carry high volumes of voice traffic both inbound and outbound over SS7 – TDM & IP. The SVI-MG’s scalable SS7 signalling interconnect and codec conversion abilities provided full call control routing for our SS7 & IP voice traffic without the need for third party media gateway controllers or protocol converters.”

“Squire Technologies’ media gateway therefore provided a solid and cost effective choice, with the reassurance of gold service support to assist us in developing our network.”

“Cable & Wireless UK has partnered with Stour Marine to provide hosting of the Stour Marine mobile number range. Squire Technologies' expert team helped us to work with Cable & Wireless staff moving the MGW through the detailed Lab testing and network acceptance testing in record time.”

“We were able to go from signature on order to carrying commercial voice traffic in 4 and a half months. We look forward to expanding our network with Squire Technologies in near future.”

US CLEC Core Communications Inc, (Coretel) chose Squire Technologies Ltd to provide a distributed SS7 network to deliver large scale modem dial-up services.

Coretel's Solution

Coretel’s continued expansion in the delivery of modem-dial up services in the US lead them to look for a solution that was distributed, fully redundant and scalable. To deliver against these requirements Squire Technologies have deployed the STP product the SVI_9220 that terminates SS7 signalling over SIGTRAN directly from Verisign. The signalling is then distributed to geographically remote Squire Tech SVI_MGC's (SS7 Media Gateway Controllers) to provide the modem termination in conjunction with Lucent Media Gateways.

The initial deployment is to support 10,000 simultaneous calls running across 15 remote Media Gateway Controllers with the ability to grow to 150,000 simultaneous calls as Coretel's business dictates through simple software license upgrades.

Bret Mingo, Coretel CEO

“Coretel chose Squire Technologies as they were able to deliver an innovative combination of products to deliver our service.

With the SVI_MGC we were also able to leverage our experience with the Alcatel-Lucent Gateways to help deliver our service. Squire Tech's support on the installation and commissioning of this deployment has been first class.”

Eloquant, based in Grenoble France, providers of hosted VoiceXML platforms required a high availability, carrier grade gateway that would allow them to terminate and switch their SS7 traffic over an STM-1 interface and provide full VoIP support.

Brian Wyld, CTO at Eloquant

“We were looking for a robust, high availability system to provide the core SS7 and VoIP interconnect - this is a mission critical part of our network that has to operate 24x7. The SVI_MG_8000 ticked all the boxes in terms of redundancy, scalability, powerful routing functionality and coupled with Squire Technologies dedicated installation and support services made this our gateway of choice. In the near future we are looking to offer VoIP services and the gateways extensive support for this technology has future proofed our investment.”

Eloquant Company details

Split off from Hewlett-Packard with the ambition of providing its customers with the innovative advantages promised by a new generation of standards at the intersection of the Internet, voice and telecommunications, Eloquant has deployed a complete Telecom and IT infrastructure that provides all the necessary resources for the development and commercial deployment of high added-value communication services.

As a result, Eloquant became in a few years the VoiceXML hosting leader in Europe. Today, Eloquant operates more than 250 services for its customers all over Europe, with a high specialisation in Customer Relationship Management, through out-sourced and mid-sourced solutions (Call Centre solutions, inbound and outbound Interactive Voice Response applications).

Squire Technologies, specialist provider of SS7 signalling equipment, has announced the first deployment of the SVI product range in Japan. The SVI_9220 SS7 to SS7 Signalling Only Converter has provided Alcatel-Lucent Japan with a solution converting from specialist Japanese MTP to ITU MTP.

"It was a pleasure working with Squire and we are hoping to have more business in the near future," says George Tagayanaki of Alcatel Lucent Japan."