Kagoor brings session border control to cable market

Proving its session border control products can work in both cable and telecom environments, Kagoor Networks announced a deployment with Kintetsu Cable Network, a Japanese broadband provider offering DSL, ADSL and cable modem access.

KCN will use Kagoor’s VoiceFlow solutions in its voice-over-broadband services to address NAT traversal, security and peering. Kagoor simultaneously announced its VoBB product. The company’s VoiceFlow border control products already are deployed with service providers such as Covad Communications, Reynwood Communications, USA Datanet and Elitel in support of voice over IP.

Kagoor claims this to be the first public announcement of session border control solutions being deployed in a cable market. "We see this as a potentially huge market expansion opportunity for people like us [that goes] beyond the traditional wireline space," said Jim Greenway, vice president of marketing at Kagoor Networks.

Although the products haven’t gone through the CableLabs PacketCable certification process--which is not yet open to session border control products, Greenway said--they are compatible with the network architecture and support the SIP-based Call Management Server Signaling (CMSS) protocol it uses.

Cable operators use CMSS to exchange voice packets and other multimedia applications with other carriers and cable providers without having to terminate them on a time division multiplexing (TDM) network.

KCN will use Kagoor’s NAT traversal capabilities primarily in its ADSL network and apply peering and protection protocols to the cable network. "It’s a nice mix of applications," Greenway said.

Kagoor worked with NEC, one of its global distribution partners, to manage the deployment at KCN. The company also works with Siemens for global distribution. "Working through these global distributors is starting show its effects. That’s the way the large companies will buy in the future," Greenway said. "So the vendors with the partnerships will be able to take advantage of that."

Through its relationship with NEC, Greenway says Kagoor pretty much has the Japanese market covered.