Time Warner Awards VoIP Server Contract to Siemens Networks

6:30 am on October 25, 2006 | Category: Business, Telecom Services, VoIP

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America’s number two cable television provider, Time Warner Cable, will use voice feature servers from Siemens Networks to add advanced features to its digital telephone offering.

This decision is a big victory for Siemens, which is quickly becoming a leading equipment provider for the U.S. cable industry.

“We have another proof point in building our momentum in the IP industry and the cable industry,” said Siemens Networks president and COO, Harald Braun. “Worldwide, Time Warner is a well-known brand name and they have a significant amount of installed customers and homes passed.”

“We have more than three years experience with this platform, and we were able to deliver a scaleable and highly reliable system to Time Warner Cable,” Braun went on to say. “What is next is, how can we come with the hiQ platform into an IMS environment? We make that very clear and very easy–you can flow in another two to three elements like the [home subscriber server] database or the CSCC [call state control function] or the media server, all within the hiQ family.”

In addition to boosting the Siemens Networks business, this deal demonstrates Time Warner’s aggressive approach to the VoIP market. 1.6 million of the cable giant’s 14.4 million customers currently use the digital phone service, a number which Time Warner executives are intent on further boosting, through the addition of advanced features like fixed-mobile convergence and possibly IMS.

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