Verizon to provide IP-shared trunk technology

December 11, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Verizon Business announced new IP trunking technology yesterday, to allow customers to tap on-demand, unused communications capacity over trunk links between switching systems.
A retailer with stores in one city in the U.S. could tap into unused trunking capacity in another city where stores are located, Verizon Business officials said. The new service, called Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks, will be available in the U.S. in mid-January and globally later in the year.
Verizon Business, a division of Verizon Communications Inc., employs voice-over-IP services with Session Initiation Protocol signaling, which allows communications to travel between either IP or circuit-switched systems.
In addition to the Shared Trunks service, Verizon Business announced yesterday it will also begin offering in January managed network services over Nortel Networks' Communications Server 1000 IP-PBX and related software.
That software, Nortel's Business Communications Manager and CallPilot, is designed to offer voice applications such as "find me, follow me" and multimedia collaboration, as well as a means to integrate voice mail, e-mail and instant message.
Verizon's new services also include automatic call rerouting with Inbound Failover. Calls are automatically forwarded to another IP address in the event of a failure on the primary pathway, Verizon officials said. Source: computerworld.com