Integral Access targeting UNE-L transition in move to residential market

Integral Access today made its first major move into the residential access market with a service of enhancements to its PurePacket platform.

Among the most significant enhancements is the ability to let carriers migrate customers from their current UNE-P platforms to IP-based service over UNE-L. In addition to supporting SIP in its CO-based PurePacketNode, Integral also is now adding support for ADSL2+.

In the company’s residential access gateway, independent telcos and international carriers can make a new complete transition to packet-based services, while competitive carriers have a platform of the move to UNE-L. Additionally, the company also has designed the platform to support inter-carrier wholesaling service, allowing carriers to configure to interconnections to multiple IP telephony service providers and ISPs.

"There really are two applications there," said Guy Senard, vice president of marketing for Integral. "One is the POTS overlay; the other is a migration to a BB network. Some of the service providers are positioning themselves for VoIP wholesaling and the cut over of customers. You can segregate media gateway in the box for different service providers."

Among the new residential services the company is promoting are click-to-talk, find-me, follow-me and unified messaging services.

On the broadband side, the node can support more than 8,000 POTS/ADSL2+ lines in a 10’ x10’ CO space and complies with NEBS.

"We have some multicasting capabilities," Senard said. "We can interface to a broadcast router, take a video stream and replicate it over the ports."