Kagoor signs reseller agreement with Siemens

CHICAGO--

Session border control supplier, San Mateo, Calif.-based Kagoor Networks announced a partnership with Siemens this week that adds Kagoor products to Siemens’ next-generation product portfolio. The partnership comes one week after the company launched its new XpressPath media routing technology for voice over IP.

Siemens Information and Communication Networks will sell Kagoor’s VoiceFlow 200, 1000 and 3000 products along with its own SpeedStream products to both carriers and the enterprise.

“We believe we are partnering with some of the key people in the different regions of the world to help service providers build their VoIP networks,” said Opher Kahane, CEO and Co-founder of Kagoor Networks.

Kagoor’s session border control product’s help support a range of carrier-to-carrier and carrier-to-enterprise VoIP applications and topologies in carrier and cable networks. The companies have done extensive testing and are working on a number of trial deployments.

“We feel like a patient on the operating table. They have done due diligence on us twice from an investment perspective,” Kahane said.

Last week, Kagoor also announced the addition of new media routing capabilities called XpressPath. The new XpressPath enables direct media flow between endpoints residing in a customer local area network behind a firewall and wide area network gateways. It also can be used in scenarios where the VoIP end-points are on the same LAN behind a firewall, which can be a large percentage of the calls originating from within a LAN.

Kagoor adheres to both leading schools of thought when it comes to its architecture: the standalone design that tightly integrates signaling and media and the distributed signaling and media approach.

“Fortunately, we are able to be a chameleon and move in or out of either of these modes, which is a differentiator for us,” Kahane said.

Both Kagoor session border controls, the VoiceFlow 1000 and VoiceFlow 3000, can use XpressPath to operate with SIP, MGCP, and H.323 NAT traversal applications.