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Squire Technologies worked together with IP Directions to ensure their existing Media Gateway Controller SVI-MGC achieves Microsoft OCS inter-op certification.

Franck Maloubier, Directeur Associé of IP Directions

The French Telephony over IP (ToIP) solutions provider said "The future of our customers: system integrators, ISPs and telcos, is dependent on comprehensive and robust Unified Communications (UC) services that are interoperable with mobile, fix phone, mail and data. Our ability to offer Microsoft OCS compliant SIP trunks to the market clearly shows our commitment to Unified Communications. We are currently working with Orange, France’s first OCS compliant carrier, to deliver full end-to-end OCS connectivity."

IP Directions - www.ipdirections.net

With this OCS approval Squire Technologies is now able to efficiently provide OCS compliant services to existing and new customer requiring scalable, future proof inter connectivity.

Andrew Cooper
Managing Director, Squire Technologies

"IP Directions has been a valued customer of ours for nearly 2 years and we were very excited to work with them in enabling full OCS compliance on their existing SVI product. This is another example of how we are able to work with our clients, on their existing equipment, to deliver the future of our industry, today. This philosophy ensures a significant Return On Investment (ROI) for our customers and greatly increases the value of our products and services."

Andrew continues "We are very proud to have supported IP Directions to become the first French operator to offer this service. With the quality of service IP Directions can now offer to their customers their growth should be exponential, we will of course be there to support them well into the future."

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"When building your future VoIP Empire you need to ensure every investment in current technology provides future flexibility and a maximum long term return on investment."

Deploying Squire Technologies SS7 VoIP Gateways and Controllers, to bridge PSTN and VoIP allows you to seamlessly adapt to the increasing market demands for 'VoIP only' Next Generation Networks. With a built in Class 4 Softswitch our Gateways can be upgraded to manage VoIP traffic, up to 10,000 simultaneous calls, simply by using a software license key.

Not only are we prepared for the move to ‘VoIP only’ but also, if your demand increases for SS7 to VoIP, more media cards can be added to provide scalability from 8 E1s to 1000 E1/T1s.

This future proof scalability provides you the flexibility to grow your VoIP empire well into the future while providing substantial cost savings.

• No need to purchase a new Softswitch
• No service affecting down time
• No re-installation
• No re-training – all Squire Technologies products are operated via the same web based GUI interface
• No replacement equipment

When building your infrastructure on the world class equipment of Squire Technologies, with the on-going support our Industry leading technicians provide, you are building for the future, however it transpires.

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As VoIP technology expands rapidly throughout the world, Eastern European Communication companies are ensuring their long-term success by demanding the very best services from Industry experts.

By interfacing VoIP networks to traditional SS7 PSTN based telephone networks, companies are looking to rapidly and cost effectively launch VoIP services and distributed networks with incumbent VoIP Media Gateways. Simon Dinnage of Squire-Technologies speaks about the importance of a robust Media Gateway Controller to control third party gateways.

"We developed our SVI-MGC SS7 Media Gateway to enable SS7 on leading VoIP Media Gateways, using industry based standards – MGCP, MEGACO H.248, SIGTRAN, SIP, SIP-I, SIP-T and H.323. This helps operators to reduce costs, increase the speed of deployment and provides a future proof NGN solution. Our system has had to be fully featured to exceed the demands of East European and CIS providers while still reducing the cost per installed E1 port. We are able to scale the SVI-MGC to match clients bandwidth requirements as and when needed through software based license key updates. Our rapid remote deployment removes the time, cost and issues of shipment."

World leading providers IPVOIP s.r.o, based in the Czech Republic, are a universal Carrier providing both TDM and VoIP services to wholesale and retail markets throughout Europe and CIS.

"We adapt our network in accordance with our partners and clients needs" says Dmitry Shubin Director of Business development at IPVoIP s.r.o "We offer a premium quality service at the lowest and most competitive prices in the market. To ensure this level of service we chose the SVI MGC management to maintain SS7 calls on our existing Cisco gateways. We can see why Squire-Technologies are the industry experts they are providing unprecedented levels of control while delivering astounding results, as a result our customers will experience best service available in the market".

Simon Dinnage concluded "As the UK’s premier provider of SS7 / VoIP technology our focus on delivering to industry leading standards of customer service, evolving technology, adaptable solutions and highly competitive pricing structures has been the key to our success throughout the world."

Squire Technologies, equipment manufacturer of NGN and TDM telecommunication products and network solutions, and Teanet, a leading provider of IP Telephony services in Italy, have announced the successful completion of PSTN interconnect acceptance tests with Telecom Italia. The approval ensures the Squire Technologies media gateway solution provides a smooth migration for operators between the Telecom Italia’s PSTN network and IP based services.

Wholesale VoIP providers need to continually address the challenge to cut costs and increase efficiencies, and the scalable SVI-MG media gateway enables entrants to compete with newly added value services. Connection to the PSTN/SS7 backbone is a regulatory requirement in many countries offering the benefits of lower operational costs and additional services. With over 70 deployments worldwide, Squire Technologies is a proven solution delivering competitive carrier grade products worldwide.

Simon Dinnage, Business Development Director, Squire Technologies
"We are delighted to have passed the Telecom Italia interconnect process and this adds to Squire’s existing carrier product certifications including France Telecom and British Telecom. The service benefits are immediately apparent for SS7 interconnect and the SVI media gateway consistently delivers greater access to competitive IP solutions, for which providers are more commonly demanding today."

Matteo La Cognata, Project Manager, Teanet Servizi, Italy.
"The incumbent system was becoming challenging to manage and after comparing other solutions the Squire media gateway fulfilled our proposal for a single box system that supported G.722, our existing infrastructure and the interface ensured swift user adoption. The Telecom Italia approval means as a service provider we can press on streamlining our IP services to our fixed and mobile customers."

Teanet Servizi - www.teanetmantova.it
Teanet Servizi offers IP telephony services to a customer base of 3500 users comprised of consumer, business, and government offices, providing businesses and government with Virtual Office telephony services and consumers with a home Broadband Telephony service.

Squire Technologies is proud to announce the availability its new fully featured, carrier-grade SS7 STP 1000 and 8000, catering for both small interconnects up, and large international points of presence. These new STPs will be exhibited in the Convergence India trade show in New Delhi, India next week.
The SVI-STP provides a comprehensive and flexible SS7 STP solution for transporting SS7 signalling over traditional TDM based networks and next generation IP based networks.

Supporting any-to-any interworking between traditional and next generation networks allows both fixed line and mobile networks to take advantage of the cost saving and next generation service offerings of IP networks.

Simon Dinnage, Business Development Director, Squire Technologies

"Our product strategy has evolved to meet the changing needs of customers and this an extremely important development for Squire Technologies. This clearly shows how the extensive SVI product range allows clients to enhance and extend their existing networks."

Squire Technologies the SS7 to VoIP Signalling Specialists and PortaOne a leading global vendor of carrier grade software for modern telecommunication service providers successfully complete a formal inter-op between the SVI-MGC SS7 Media Gateway Controller and the PortaOne's PortaBilling100, a converged rating, billing, and service provisioning platform

RADIUS AAA integration between SVI-MGC and PortaBilling100 allows real-time call authorization. In practical terms, this enables wholesale carriers and Internet telephony service providers to offer a mixture of pre-paid or post-paid telephony services with minimal financial risks exposure. The CDR information is processed immediately after the call completion using PortaBilling100 flexible rating engine and the results are available to administrators via web interface or to customers through the self-care portal. The joint performance of SVI-MGC and PortaBilling100 optimizes most of the processes a service provider has to deal with, such as rate upload and management, invoice generation, reporting, and reconciliation.

Andrew Cooper
Managing Director, Squire Technologies

"We have deployed the SVI-MGC on a number of occasions with clients who are using PortaBilling100 - it has always been a smooth process. Strategically we wanted to arrange a formal inter-op with PortaOne to align ourselves with the industry leading converged VoIP billing product and to insure any existing customers wanting to move to this platform a smooth migration process."

Roman Khalenkov
Sales and Marketing Director, PortaOne

"We were happy to add Squire Technologies' innovative SS7 to VoIP solution to the stable of products that inter-op with PortaBilling100, our market leading converged VoIP billing and service provisioning system. I hope we can continue to provide our mutual customers with the dual benefit of these innovative market leading products."

About PortaOne: Based in Canada, PortaOne is a leading global vendor of carrier grade software for modern telecommunication service providers. The company enables service providers and carriers to run a broad line of telecommunication services with a single software package, and offers a complete product consisting of fully converged VoIP billing and provisioning platform, class 4 and 5 SIP softswitch to support hosted IPPBX or IPCentrex services, unified messaging, IVR, conferencing applications, callbacks and more. The company's products are a fundamental part of the business infrastructure at over 330 service provider locations worldwide.

To learn more, visit www.portaone.com

Building on Squire Technologies' expansion into Asia, the global provider of carrier grade telecommunications products confirms the opening of its new satellite support offices in New Delhi.

The opening of the new site will support the growing customer base, firmly positioning Squire Technologies within the region and strengthening the delivery of its SS7 VoIP telecoms products.

Simon Dinnage
Business Development Director

"We continue to expand our international business and recognise to achieve continued success in the Asia region the provision of a focused support office in India is critical in achieving this."

Ambrish Shukla, Head Regional Support

"We've established relations with various customers in the region and the aim is to increase the service we offer by providing superbly trained dedicated support staff."

With the continuing growth and success of SMS traffic worldwide, the SMSC Short Message Service Center and SMS Gateway can offer operators with existing SS7 interconnects the ability to maximise their revenue, by directly offering SMS services.

Building on Squire Technologies' core SS7 expertise the SVI-SMSC Short Message Service Center and SVI-SMSG SMS Gateway provide a highly flexible, configurable and scalable carrier grade product set, offering operators the ability to control high SMS transmission rates.

Simon Dinnage, Business Development Director, Squire Technologies

"Our product strategy has evolved to meet the changing needs of customers and this an extremely important development for Squire Technologies. This clearly shows how the extensive SVI product range allows clients to enhance and extend their existing networks."

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Powwownow, provider of low cost, high quality conferencing, were looking to increase revenue and service levels, whilst reducing operating costs. Squire Technologies BT approved SS7 Media Gateway provided a scalable single box solution that delivers carrier grade SS7 to VoIP interconnect.

Paul Lees, Joint CEO, Powwownow, UK

"Simple engagement with no contracts and no billing is Powwownow's ethic, providing millions of affordable and easy to use web conference calls worldwide. Service levels such as these require maximum resilience and our existing fleet of Cisco AS5400s were extremely power hungry and challenging to manage - the SS7 Media Gateway supplied by Squire Technologies has provided us a seamless single box solution"

The SVI_MG 8000 SS7 Media Gateway replaced 10 existing Media Gateways with a much higher bandwidth STM-1 interface, allowing Powwownow to reduce their power consumption by 66%. Squire Technologies worked closely with Powwownow to gain official BT CAT, NIF and NIT testing making the SS7 Media Gateway an approved BT interconnect product. Since the initial BT deployment the unit has been upgraded to provide further STM-1 interconnect at BT and to other European carriers.

About Powwownow

Powwownow was founded in 2004, offering customers low-cost conference calling facilities with the ethos of no booking, no billing and no fuss. (The customer does not need to book a conference room and never receives a bill from Powwownow, just the cost of a 0844 call added to their bill). Turnover for 2009 is expected to reach £7m. The company operates in 15 countries including the US and major European markets. Powwownow employs 32 people and is based in Richmond, London.

Simon Dinnage, Business Development Director

This was a very exciting opportunity for Squire Technologies and I would like to thank Powwownow for sponsoring us through the BT interconnect approval process. We look forward to working with Powwownow today and in the future, helping them to support their continued growth in the Conference Calling market.