Pactolus drives WiMAX-delivered VoIP carrier services

October 27, 2005

Pactolus Communications Software Corporation, a developer of Class 4/5 SIP-based IP voice services, introduced support for WiMAX delivery of its SIPware Services Suite and customized applications based on the uniquely flexible RapidFLEX Service Creation Environment (SCE). Pactolus' WiMAX delivery support enables service providers to profitably deliver the industry's most market-proven, revenue-rich services - such as primary line VoIP, audio conferencing, and real-time prepaid voice services - to new customer populations regardless of their current degree of 'last mile' transport access. Pactolus also fully supports WiMAX delivery of customized and new innovative services based on its developer-friendly Service Creation Environment.

Pactolus enables operators to rapidly integrate 3G and VoIP primary line services for bundling to both consumer and business customers, and lets service providers further extend and enrich the service profitability potential of their WiMAX investments and strategies. Cellular and Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) are initially using WiMAX to reduce backhauling costs, extend coverage throughout rural areas, support consumer usage of VoIP-IM services such as Skype and GTalk, and bring new bandwidth efficiencies and range to urban wireless coverage.

Pactolus Vice President of Product Management and Marketing Ken Osowski notes: "We're enabling wireless operators to integrate new and existing customers and services, and also to strategically expand beyond transport-driven revenue streams to build new service-driven revenues, similar in some ways to those that have proven to be a consistent element of ongoing wireline carrier profitability."

Pactolus recently introduce IMS support, allowing 3G operators to incorporate innovations such as rich conferencing service features. As service providers plan to converge cellular, wireline, and VoIP networks, SIP-based voice services will be key to creating service bundles that leverage any type of network access such as WiMAX. Pactolus' SIPware Services Suite and RapidFLEX Service Delivery Platform generate billions of minutes of revenue-generating call traffic per year, and are increasingly viewed as the industry's broadest, most scalable, easily deployed and readily enhanced carrier services suite.

Pactolus has implemented both WiMAX and IMS support in its RapidFLEX platform and across its SIPware Services suite using an open software environment that includes SIP, SOAP, XML, HTTP, RTP and other IP-based technologies in an extensible framework. This enables service providers to take advantage of the rich set of existing, commercially-proven capabilities in any wireless network.

"We designed our service delivery platform, service creation environment and services to be a pure-IP, SIP-compliant service delivery solution right from the very beginning," noted Dave Horton, President, CTO and founder of Pactolus. "The industry-first capabilities and feature innovation potential announced today use the IMS interfaces incorporated in our market-proven product suite, enabling network operators and service providers to use a single services framework across all types of fixed and mobile network topologies. Our goal is to help service providers support the delivery of unified services bundles that subscribers can easily learn and leverage, giving the service provider an important new edge in sustaining subscriber loyalty while expanding their addressable market," he concluded.

Pricing and Availability

WiMAX support for SIPware Services, RapidFLEX Service Creation Environment and RapidFLEX Application Server will be initially available for existing customers in Q1 '06 and generally available to new customers in the first half of 2006.