Nuera Communications, Inc. is a top-rated provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) infrastructure solutions that work over any medium (cable, wireless, copper and fiber). The company's Open, Reliable Communications Architecture (ORCA®) product portfolio helps carriers worldwide migrate from legacy networks to next-generation VoIP networks.
How did Nuera get started?
Nuera was founded in 1996 by a small technical team focused on packet voice solutions. This original team believed in the convergence of voice and data networks and has now grown to more than 200 employees operating worldwide.
What are Nuera's key differentiators?
Its technology, its customers, its people and its experience. Nuera is a leading player in one of the fastest growing markets in the telecommunications industry. The company has an accomplished team of engineers who develop cutting-edge technology and a well-seasoned management team. With an unparalleled breadth of service offerings, Nuera has a solid roster of key customers and a strong presence in major growth markets worldwide. Nuera also has strategic relationships with companies such as SBC, AT&T and Motorola, among others.
What is the future of voice communications?
The current Public Switched Telephone Network, or PSTN, was developed more than 80 years ago with a hard-wired, circuit-based backbone. This type of network has limited capacity and is expensive to maintain.
As a result, service providers have sought out alternative ways of delivering voice services. Voice-over-Internet Protocol enables voice traffic to be carried over any type of network, not just the PSTN. Advances in technology now make it possible to connect phone calls over any medium, including cable, wireless, copper and fiber. Nuera is helping carriers and cable operators migrate their networks to accommodate the next-generation of voice services.
How do Nuera's solutions benefit the marketplace?
Nuera makes it possible for carriers to migrate from legacy networks like the PSTN to open broadband Internet Protocol-based networks, which minimizes the carriers' monetary investment. The company works with carriers to assess the economic benefits of integrating IP equipment into their networks, specifically through Nuera's ORCA product family.
Within the ORCA product family, Nuera has a variety of award-winning, carrier-class media and signaling gateways and softswitches, which were designed on open platforms using industry-standard interoperability protocols.
What is Nuera's position on standards and interoperability?
Nuera supports interoperability among vendors and believes that standards are key to the success of the industry. H.323, the leading standard until recently, has proven to be complex, with major drawbacks such as slow call processing and lack of scalability. The latest and most advanced Voice-over-IP interoperability protocols - SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol) - are now emerging as the standards of choice. SIP and MGCP empower all vendors to seamlessly interoperate and provide the building blocks necessary for a new generation of voice technology.
Nuera is one of the early adopters and strongest proponents of MGCP and SIP. As a result, the company's products are interoperable with many other vendor products - a major benefit to Nuera's business partners and customers.
