Veraz’s Mini-Me and …… 2.0
Veraz has introduced a smaller version of its softswitch. iMN is a mini ControlSwitch (Veraz’s flagship product). I thought this was the long awaited Class 5 application server that Veraz has been working on. It turns out that iMN is a small version of ControlSwitch, supporting both Class 5 and Class 4 applications in a single platform.
It is pre-packaged i.e. many of the parameters on the ControlSwitch which can be customized are pre-configured to make it easy to install and turn-up quickly for smaller applications. The mini platform supports 15,000 subscribers. Carriers that deploy the iMN and later decide to scale beyond 15,000 subscribers would then migrate to the ControlSwitch.
Veraz also announced late in May that it had opened up its platform for third party developers. To date, Veraz has developed the mashups/Voice 2.0 apps internally. The kind of mashups that Veraz has so far enabled include PortalConnect, Presence, IM. The vendor will be rolling out a number of additional applications in 2H08.
Veraz has not made the APIs available to external developers yet. The Voice 2.0 apps that are developed on top of its platform are either brought in by Veraz themselves or developed/commissioned by the customer using standard telco interfaces.
