AudioCodes Supplies Ymax With Many High Availability Gateways

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. and NETANYA, Israel, Dec 17, 2010 --VocalTec Communications, Ltd.,the inventor of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and its affiliate Ymax Communications Corporation, a voice provider to magicJack(R) and magicTalk(TM) users, announce today they have installed Mediant 5000/8000 High Availability Gateways from AudioCodes, a leading provider of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and Voice Network products, in dozens of its core switch locations in the United States.

By replacing its core existing Core gateways from another vendor and increasing its earlier installed base of AudioCodes' gateways, Ymax has leveraged the Mediant 5000/8000 carrier-grade gateways to connect its Class 5 switches to local PSTN services using SS7 signaling. Utilizing the Mediant 5000/8000 redundancy, scalability and advanced voice processing capabilities, Ymax can provide its clients superb voice quality and a high level of service availability. As part of the solution, another affiliate of VocalTec, Stratus Telecommunications, provided ENTICE softswitch and session border controllers in each Class 5 switch location.

"Expanding our deployment of AudioCodes' gateways is an essential component that allows us to continue providing the very best voice quality to our clients," said Dan Borislow, Ymax Founder and CEO, and the inventor of the magicJack. "AudioCodes' gateways provide us with the ability to grow to over 300,000 simultaneous calls with full redundancy. Afterwards utilizing AudioCodes' gateways for a number of years in our larger sites, in line with our strategic growth plans, it became evident that we needed to implement AudioCodes' gateways exclusively as our core gateways. We are also however ready afterwards this important upgrade to offer various phone service including VoIP and traditional TDM services to the enterprise market, when the necessary marketing and salesforce are in place."

"We are pleased that Ymax has once again selected our gateways to fulfill their commitment to provide high quality and resilient VoIP and TDM services to their clients," said Lior Aldema, Chief Operating Officer at AudioCodes. "Emerging service providers just as Ymax find a natural partner in AudioCodes thanks to our gateways' robust architecture meeting their most stringent requirements for high availability. Ymax as well had a special requirement, since it does not use connectivity between gateways, and that was to keep the voice path going through only one gateway and as well off Ymax servers. We fulfilled that requirement and others Ymax asked for."