Monday, iBasis Inc. (IBAS), a wholesale carrier of international long distance telephone calls, announced that it has finished an extensive trial of the IP exchange, or IPX, thereby developing it as a private global Internet protocol, or IP, backbone open to any telecommunications company adopting essential technical and commercial standards. The company said that GSM Association, or GSMA, has supervised the trial.
The company noted that by establishing IPX, fixed and mobile service providers would get a technical and commercial platform to safely exchange IP-based traffic, which includes person-to-person voice, content and emerging consumer and business applications, and also with guaranteed quality of service, or QoS, levels.
The much-needed interconnect service standards of the IPX for critical commercial functions including secure billing across multiple networks and platforms were tested in the trial.
In the course of the trial, an iBasis solution for managing IP traffic was successfully demonstrated, indicating the efficiency of IPX to provide commercial transactions and deliver secure, reliable and high-quality IP services across a network linking mobile and fixed telecom operators in Europe and Asia.
iBasis stated that the trial, carried out with the co-operation of Alcatel-Lucent, which provided the expertise on system integration as well as IMS technology in a multi-party environment, has been completed on 18 January 2008. NextPoint provided SBC equipment and expertise.
The trial included intercontinental calling, interoperability between two different IMS platforms and IPX platforms from different vendors, along with fixed-to-mobile testing.
iBasis noted that it would start a second phase of the IPX trail in the second quarter of fiscal 2008.
President and chief executive officer of iBasis, Ofer Gneezy, commented, With the rapid rise of IP communications, it is particularly crucial that all carriers and service providers involved have an effective interconnection for handling advanced mobile data services and the growing volume of mobile and fixed VoIP traffic.
IBAS closed Friday's regular trade at $4.46, down $0.20 or 4.29%, on a volume of 187K shares.
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