Shared Converged Services State Nets NetEdu Conference February

Shared Converged Services State. Nets / Net@Edu Conference February 13, 2008

Agenda • Voice Services at ENA – Platform Design – Service Features – We can share! • Shared Application Development – A possible model for collaboration and sharing • Q&A 2

ENA Converged Services • Brief History – 2006: ENA decides to offer Voice/Vo. IP services – 2007: Offer Voice services to 6 customers (Pilot) • • Install 1 st Voice Platform Intercarrier agreements with RBOCS/CLECs etc. First 6 Pilot School Districts Offering Focuses on Hosted PBX/IP Centrex and SIP Trunking Services – 2008: 20+ School Districts signed up for Services • ~20 K IP Centrex End points • Multiple District-wide Trunking Solutions • Able to serve both Urban and Rural Districts 3

Service Requirements • Carrier-class – Reliability of Telecommunications solution vitally important to K-12 community and their constituents • Future Looking – Architecture allows for integration w/ future converged services • Open Standards Architecture • SIP vs MGCP • Feature Rich – Features should be equivalent to what customers could get with proprietary CPE solutions 4

Platform Architecture • Redundancy – – Every key platform component is redundant (N+1) Redundant IP and PSTN connectivity Redundant utility power + battery + generator Platform can experience multiple component failure without dropping a call – UPCOMING: Geographically diverse primary and backup platforms • We’ve tried to this right, and can share 5

Multiple Layers of Administration • Regional/Wholesale Administration • School District/End Customer Administration • End User Configuration Control – End User Portal – Attendant Console 6

Administrator’s Portal 7

Model for Shared Application Development • Swisscom Model – Open Converged Services Platform available to developers worldwide – Mash-ups/widgets/scheduling apps etc. – Swisscom can deploy any developed apps/services in Switzerland – Contributors are free to deploy same services anywhere else 8

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