GENBAND announces roadmap and GENiUS platform

This week GENBAND announced their future product roadmap including the integration of the Nortel CVAS line of products.

The key announcement involved the launch of the GENiUS Platform. An abstraction layer to combine GENBAND's many products into various configurations to aid companies with speedy solution launches.

According to Natasha Tamaskar, VP of Product Marketing at GENBAND, "the GENiUS platform is a middle layer that abstracts the software applications from the hardware. We see going forward the need to bring different types of components together in our solutions rather than just one product. If we have a common middle layer we can deploy solutions much faster than anyone else. With the common middle layer we can tune systems quite efficiently in terms of taking different configurations... We can also bring products to market much faster than what you would typically look to do if you have an extensive product line."

The GENiUS platform is an all-IP Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) system that will encompass GENBAND's application, call control, session border and security product lines incorporating computing hardware and Service Availability Forum (SAF) compliant middleware.

Additionally, GENBAND reviewed their various appliance series as part of their roadmap of offerings. With the recent addition of Nortel CVAS, GENBAND now has one of the industry's broadest VoIP professional services portfolios. The company has deployed 200 million VoIP ports, has over 600 customers which include two-thirds of the world's marquee service providers over 80 countries.

For the rest of the roadmap:
- read the release

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