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April 1, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — VoIP solutions provider Quintum Technologies Inc. (quantum.com) announced on Monday that it has signed a distribution agreement with Sydney-based communications company Comms Connect Pty. Ltd (commsconnect.com.au).
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According to the agreement, Comms Connect will market Quintum?s Tenor VoIP MultiPath Switchproduct lines to service providers and enterprise customers throughout Australasia. The agreement, says Quintum, extends the company?s global reach, which already includes distribution channels across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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Quintum?s Tenor VoIP MultiPath Switch is designed to ensure the quality of voice services by monitoring IP traffic and transparently switching calls to the public switched telephone network if they are threatened by packet loss, jitter or latency.
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The company has developed a number of add-on innovations for its Tenor switches, including NATAccess, which allows companies to keep their VoIP gateways behind NATs and NAT-enabled firewalls, and PacketSaver multiplexing, which uses compression technology to reduce bandwidth requirements and congestion in VoIP networks.
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Quintum says its Tenor solutions are fully compliant with regional telecom standards, and are suitable for both local and global applications.
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?The quality, ease of implementation, and cost-efficiency of Quintum?s VoIP solutions make them extremely appealing to customers in just about every market segment,? said Comms Connect president, Robert Hayden. ?We look forward to introducing Tenor MultiPath switching technology to the Australasian telecom community and seeing it contribute to a significant increase in VoIP implementations.?
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Along with distributing the Tenor products, Comms Connect will provide customers with local support and network consulting services. The two companies also plan a variety of joint marketing and promotional activities in the region.
