Retail & Transit Unit – a single platform for retail and

wholesale VoIP operations

Who is RTU intended for?

RTU — an ultra-scalable multi-service platform for IP-based networks designed to bring flexibility to all categories of telecommunication companies:

• Carriers with both retail and wholesale traffic willing to reduce all kinds of expenses by utilizing a single comprehensive product from one vendor for all business activities

• Local exchange carriers or mobile carriers willing to obtain a flexible services delivery engine and to increase the efficiency of traffic routing originated from their retail customers

• Wholesale carriers willing to diversify their business portfolio adding services for retail customers

• Large corporations willing to build a corporate voice network on a reliable multi-protocol platform and efficiently manage calls

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What tasks does RTU undertake?

RTU allows carriers to deliver the following business models:

Residential telephony Business customers services Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) replacement A-Z voice traffic management Corporate IP PBX

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What are RTU deployment options?

In case of deployment as a comprehensive class 4&5 product RTU delivers additional economic benefits:

• Hardware expenditures reduction • Technical support expenses reduction • Installation, configuration and maintenance expenses reduction

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RTU provides unmatched flexibility of combination between retail and transit functionality.

RTU can be deployed as • class 5 platform for value-added services delivery • bundled product that comprises class 4 and class 5 features.

Which benefits does RTU bring to Wholesale business?

• High performance and carrier-class reliability• Seamless interoperability of multi-vendor equipment• Geographically distributed architecture• SIP,H.323, ITU/ETSI ISUP(SIGTRAN)*, MGCP support and conversion on

the core level• SIP-T/I support• A single traffic entry point & SBC functionality• SIP trunking (connectivity for all IP PBXs directly across IP links)

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RTU enables customers to add class 5 features and VAS in a convenient “pass as you go” way.

*national dialects are available on demand

Which benefits does RTU bring to Retail business?

• A broad range of VAS on a single platform • A variety of deployment scenarios• Comprehensive system management capabilities• Carrier-grade reliability and fault-tolerance• Interconnection of subscribers both through various VoIP protocols• Interconnection with a wide range of IP phones and SoftClients

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RTU allows telecom carriers and service providers to offer highly remunerative value-added services to their customers.

RTU is based on the universal highly scalable Traffic Switch managed by two types of logic subsystems: Retail Logic responsible for class 5 features and services Wholesale Logic responsible for class 4 functionality.

The system operates on the industry-standard hardware.

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* Available for basic calls and transit

The RTU architecture allows for:

Almost unlimited scalability* Very high fault-tolerance Building geographically distributed networks with a single point of management and data entry Flexibility and ease of adding additional servers into a cluster In case of a hardware fault in one of the system’s components, its functions are taken over by other servers in the cluster assuring business-critical system dependability.

What is the technological basis of RTU?

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RTU Specifications: codecs & protocols

Supported protocols:

• SIP v.2.0 (RFC 3261) • H.323 v.2 and later (including H.245 v.7,

H.225 v.4) • ETSI/ITU ISUP (SIGTRAN)*, MGCP support on

the core level • SIP/H.323/ETSI/ITU ISUP (SIGTRAN)*

conversion• SIP-T/I• T.38 • SNMP v.1, v.2, v.3 (statistics) • RADIUS AAA • RADIUS-based routing • ENUM

Supported codecs

• H.261, H.263, H.264 video pass-through

• Conversion of media-codecs (G.729, G.729A, G.723.1, G711, GSM FR, Speex, iLBC)

T.38 fax pass-through Protocol normalization to ensure

seamless interoperability

Operating systems:Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny)

*national dialects are available on demand

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RTU Capacity & Scalability

Total capacity

• Concurrent calls: — up to 150,000 per cluster

• New calls per second (CPS): — up to 1,000 per 1 traffic entry point

• BHCA: — up to 10,000,000

• Number of subscribers: —up to 25,000 per 1 server*

* Typical server configuration: 2xIntel Xeon E5530, RAM 8G.

RTU capacity easily scales up with an increase of processor cores’ number in cluster as well as respective RAM growth.

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RTU class 5 functionality

Services for remote access and authorization • Remote Access• DISA• Auto Attendant• IVR scenarios• Calling Card Platform Services for faxes• FAX – to – Email • WEB — to — FAX• Virtual Fax Driver

Services for Call Center • Group Call• Call Pickup • Call Park • Call Queue• Chat Room • Televoting• Conference Call• Multipart Conference call• Call Hold• Call Transfer • Call Waiting • Call forward

Services for remote control•Query / Set Forward•Query / Set Speed Dial•Query / Set Alarm •Query Service List •Query Time / Speaking Clock Personal services •Alarm Clock•Follow Me•Black / White lists•Do not Disturb•Speed Dial•Last Number Redial•Call Back•Auto Redial with call back•Auto Redial•CLIR/CLIP

Services for voice messages•Conversation Recording•Prompts Recording•Voice – to – Email •Voice Mail Box 

   

RTU provides the following set of VAS:

How does RTU fit your network?

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Local Exchange carriers (wireline network operators)

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• Enables cost-effective interconnection with all kinds of subscribers (POTS, ISDN, VoIP)*

• Provides for effective long distance traffic distribution

• Guarantees easy management and control via user-friendly web interface

* Gateways from partner vendors are included in the solution

VoIP transit carriers

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• Acts as a single point of traffic aggregation, control and distribution

• Concentrates accounting information

• Enables the use of external BSS/OSS/Real-time routing engines

Large corporations

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• Interconnects numerous remote offices within a corporate network

• Allows for minimization of telephony expenses inside corporate network

• Enables easy maintenance and configuration of broad range of telephony features

Wireless carriers

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• Allows effective distribution of LD traffic coming from own mobile subscribers

• Provides a single secure entry point for incoming traffic into the mobile network

• Mobile and Fixed line subscribers unification:

a single database a single user’s profile a single web interface

Vonage-like carriers

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• Delivers a hosted IP Centrex solution with an enhanced set of VAS to generate additional benefits

• Allows provide end users with a local or international telephone number (DID) to place and receive calls

• Unbound technology: can be used from anywhere on the globe and perform calls any distance at any time using Internet.

RTU Delivery options

There are several options to deliver RTU:

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