Sonus provides an advantage in unified comms transition

A new offering combines Sonus' SBC, PSX and EMS into a single bundle

Sonus, which recently announced a merger with UC rival Genband, is introducing a bundled solution intended to help businesses deploy enterprise unified communications (UC) on their networks more quickly and securely.

Firms will often look to their communications as they go through digital transformation, moving from legacy TDM communications to IP-based methods. The new solution, Sonus Advantage, combines the company's SBC, PSX and EMS into a single product; it is designed to enable customers to use their existing assets during the migration to IP comms.

The Sonus Advantage platform is designed around UC, with a focus on three 'key benefits':

• Security to protect the communications network, ensure privacy and meet compliance requirements;
• Intelligent session control; and
• Legacy equipment interworking for multi-vendor IP networks, video conferencing, hax machines, etc.

"Enterprises know that unified communications are the future. What they don't know is where to start," said Mykola Konrad, VP of product management and marketing at Sonus. "Sonus Advantage gives enterprises an affordable, logical starting point in migrating their legacy communications networks by focusing on the core capabilities of security, session control and interworking."

Michael Brandenburg, an IT industry analyst at Frost and Sullivan, said, "Migrating to modern unified communications solutions is rarely a clean break for businesses... The new Sonus Advantage bundled solution provides all of the elements that businesses need during transition and beyond, including security, intelligent session control, and support for legacy equipment."