Daily News 2006/02/10

Huawei's mobile soft switch serving Saudi Arabia Telecom

On Jan. 25 of 2006, Huawei announced that the GSM mobile soft switch equipment it provided to Saudi Arabie Telecom had been working quite well during the Hajj that last from Jan. 8 to Jan. 13, 2006.
On Jan. 9 of 2006, the total amount of mobile users in Mecca exceeded 3,000,000, and the heaviest traffic exceeded 3000K BHCA (the traffic volume being 20 times as much as before). The amount of short messages and switching are 18 and 24 times as much as before. In such condition, the call completion ration didn't drop compared with other times.
Huawei is quite capable in providing mobile soft switch equipment, with central management, balanced network load. This capability was well reflected during the Haij period when the amount of users increased by 20% than that in the same period of the last year. During this time, Saudi Arabia Telecom kept a high access success rate (call completion rate), and earned 30% more. To show its appreciation, Saudi Arabia awarded "2005 The Biggest Achievement" to Huawei.

Singapore Changi Airport providing VoIP service

Recently, Singapore Changi Airport launched VoIP telephone service, through with the passengers can save 80% of the cost when making international phone calls in the airport. This makes Changi Airport one of those providing high-quality and low-cost international telephone service. Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore launched this service by cooperating with the largest VoIP service provider in Asia.
This VoIP telephone system includes 23 booths in the waiting rooms in the first and second building. The passenger need only to pay a prepayment of 5 Singapore dollars (1.68 Singapore dollar = 1 U.S. dollar) for such service. Refund for any overpayment or a supplemental payment for any deficiency

Juniper cooperating with Avaya to improve the safety performance of IP telephone

This Wednesday, Avaya and Juniper announced to further cooperate with each other to improve the safety performance of the next generation of enterprise telephone service.
The two sides didn't declare any plan for new products, but attached importance to products integration and business cooperation. Avaya's IP telephone will integrate the safety and WAN functions of Juniper. By providing such products the enterprise may realize mobile office.
Feb, 2006: the two companies will provide the new products in North America first, and then in Europe, Mid East and Africa. It will be available in the Asia-Pacific region before the end of this year.