Topic Location: IMG 1010-Introduction
Introduction
The Dialogic® IMG 1010 is a unique carrier-grade VoIP gateway solution that offers customer’s significant capital and operational savings while simultaneously speeding time to market. The IMG 1010 is unique in its ability to serve as an SS7 signaling server and media gateway with media processing capability all in one. With up to 768 channels in a 1U footprint that can be racked and stacked plus software licensing for cost-effective in-service growth, the IMG 1010 is the solution for a wide variety service providers’ media gateway needs.
Service providers can use the IMG 1010 to quickly and cost-effectively add new VoIP capacity while enabling long term migration to an all-VoIP environment. Service providers can rapidly provision and maintain a network of IMG 1010's using the Dialogic® GateControl EMS, a centralized management application with a user-friendly GUI for provisioning, monitoring and maintenance.
Routing and translations on the IMG 1010 are significantly more robust than what many Service providers are used to finding in a VoIP gateway. The IMG 1010 comes with Dialogic's patented Programmable Protocol Language for rapidly developing PSTN and IP network signaling variants. This unique capability allows IMG 1010 customers to implement advanced and proprietary SIP interoperability features on their own.
Where Flexibility Meets Performance
Dialogic’s® IMG 1010 Integrated Media Gateway is a powerful, efficient, carrier-grade VoIP media gateway that performs two-way protocol conversion between circuit-switched networks like the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and packet-switched networks like the Internet. This VoIP media gateway provides service providers and enterprises with unparalleled price performance, reliability, and flexibility. The Integrated Media Gateway reduces the cost and complexity of implementing new services by combining PSTN and packet signaling, SS7 continuity tests, and media (tones and announcements) in a cost-effective, easy-to-manage, compact (1u) shelf.
Flexibility and Interoperability
You can use the Integrated Media Gateway as a VoIP Gateway, VoIP Transcoder, or back-to-back SIP User Agent. The IMG 1010 ensures interoperability with a wide range of VoIP networks by simultaneously supporting Primary Rate Interface (PRI) and SS7, plus the packet network protocols SIP and H.323. You can implement protocol changes yourself quickly and efficiently, using Dialogic's patented Programmable Protocol Language (PPL). The Integrated Media Gateway supports advanced media capabilities without impacting VoIP channel processing. The IMG has undergone successful inter-operability testing with a wide spectrum of both VoIP and PSTN gateways.
Reduced Capital Expenses, Faster Time to Market
This VoIP media gateway lowers initial cost because it supports full inter-operability between ISDN, SS7, SIP, and H.323 across multiple gateways. So you can roll out new enhanced telecommunication offerings without buying, integrating, or managing third party softswitches, signaling gateways, application servers, FAX servers, media servers, proxy servers, or registration servers. While the Integrated Media Gateway can be configured for cost-effective entry-level requirements, it also allows you to seamlessly scale and gracefully upgrade your networks. And by using a single platform to provide rich application services across multiple networks, you significantly reduce the time, effort, and expense required to develop and deploy new services.
Reduced Operational Expenses
The IMG 1010 also directly lowers your ongoing expenses. With signaling and media supported in a single platform, the cost and complexity of implementing new services is reduced, as are training, sparing, OAM&P, environmental, service agreement, and other costs that increase each time a new platform is deployed. And because the IMG 1010 supports up to 768 channels in a 1U footprint, it can reduce rack space costs by up to 50%.
Carrier-Grade Reliability
"Carrier-grade" means more than having a hot-swappable fan tray. It means having 1+1 hot standby support for all active components. It means the ability to upgrade systems while they are in service. It means separating transport, signaling, and OAM&P to reduce susceptibility to intruders and to ensure better system performance.
Improved Network Performance
By integrating multiple network functions into the gateway, the IMG 1010 improves network performance. It eliminates call hand-offs and re-direction from box to box, improving call setup time and accelerating cost-effective integration of enhanced services.
Investment Protection
Dialogic has a long history of ensuring compatibility between existing systems and new offerings, without “forklift” upgrades. Whether service providers are concerned with new network protocols, new service offerings, or powerful new chip technologies, they can be sure that the Dialogic equipment they invest in today will be economically viable for many years to come.
With the IMG 1010's compact package, integrated SS7, and rich media processing capabilities, you can improve call quality while reducing your costs. New services, improved flexibility, investment protection, and higher quality, all at a lower cost and greater efficiency. Dialogic's® IMG 1010 Integrated Media Gateway is the gateway platform of choice for service providers and enterprises worldwide.