North American service providers are looking for ways to capture and keep customers by offering new services utilizing their evolving next generation IP networks. They want the maximum flexibility to keep and upgrade different parts of the network for a cost-effective evolution to NGN. For example, replacing existing access and trunking equipment for connectivity to the new IP infrastructure is often cost prohibitive. The Alcatel-Lucent 7506 Media Gateway complement's Alcatel-Lucent's 7510 Media Gateway by providing an effective means for Hosted IP PBX Trunking, Inverse Gateway and Access Gateway functionality for Fiber to the User applications in North America.
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The high-capacity Alcatel-Lucent 7510 Media Gateway (MG) builds a service-aware edge for voice, fax and data in user-centric broadband networks by providing any-to-any media switching and interworking for circuit and IP ports. As a member of the Alcatel-Lucent 7500-series of multiservice MGs, it enables flexible rollout of PSTN migration and new IP services in both the metro transit and the local access layers of Alcatel-Lucent's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solutions as well as any multivendor next generation network.
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The compact Alcatel-Lucent 7515 Media Gateway (MG) builds a service-aware edge for voice, fax and data in user-centric broadband networks by providing any-to-any media switching and interworking for circuit and IP ports.
As a member of the Alcatel-Lucent 7500-series of multiservice MGs, it enables flexible rollout of PSTN migration and new IP services in both the metro transit and the local access layers of Alcatel-Lucent's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solutions as well as any multivendor next generation network.
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