The VoIP Network of Enel, the Italian Electric Utility Company, to Evolve With Italtel Technology

Enel, the Italian world leading electric utility company, has selected Italtel as a technology provider and system integrator for the different levels of development of their business telephone communication system: evolved Unified Communication services with full integration on a single device (fixed or mobile) of voice, data and video; interoperability with multivendor and multi-standard IP networks; convergence of fixed and mobile services; corporate network expansion at international level.

The Italtel Session Border Controller (SBC) is the core element of Italtel technology for the network of Enel. Italtel Netmach-S has been certified by Microsoft to interoperate with MS Lync 2013, the new Unified Communications & Collaboration system for enterprises' and service providers' networks.

Within the new IP network of Enel, Italtel NetMatch-S will enable several key network functions: full interoperability through SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) signaling system with PBX business networks, with public telephony networks and with national and international IP networks; transrating / transcoding for the compression of transmission bit rate and for the conversion of different audio formats in order to ensure high quality reliable communications; centralized management of the corporate numbering plan for all Enel venues; reliability of IP interconnections through the use of secure communication protocols.

Italtel NetMatch-S SBC is highly scalable and can be inserted gradually and with flexibility in the infrastructure of Enel. Furthermore, it is designed to interoperate, in a reliable manner using standard protocols, with high-resolution video platforms. Also in a future perspective, the system will allow the convergent management of fixed and mobile devices within the enterprise communication network.

The system supplied, besides to including a very simple GUI, also incorporates a control and management system called i-NEM is the Network Management system able of implementing specific features such as Assurance, Configuration, Accounting, Security. The use of i-NEM is flexible and modular whatever is the network infrastructure: the Italtel system is, in fact, specifically designed to be hardware independent and portable across all platforms in RedHat Enterprise Linux technology.

In addition to typical SBC functions, NetMatch-S offers distinctive features which enable Enel to address complex scenarios of SIP trunking to the public network and interoperability among different Unified Communication & Collaboration systems such as:

NetMatch-S is part of the , the advanced network border layer, allowing rapid migration from legacy TDM to All-IP next-generation networks and IMS architecture, ensuring measurable differentiable Quality of Service (QoS) and secure network interconnection between traditional TDM, IP and 3G/4G networks. NetMatch-S is highly scalable and deployable both in Service Provider and Enterprise networks, thanks to various different product 'editions'.

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Italtel Group