Jasomi launches new PeerPoint

Jasomi Networks today announced the release of a new version of its PeerPoint product designed to solve customer network address translation issues with no customer premise equipment.

The PeerPoint Centrex Edition allows carriers to provide voice over IP service to small businesses that use NAT-enabled firewalls.

Traditionally, firewalls using NAT have been untouchable to service providers unless they were willing to pay for routing equipment placed at the customer premises.

Previously, a phone sitting behind a firewall that is used to make an IP-based call would generate a SIP message provisioned with a local address. While that may allow users to call within a corporate network, outside equipment could not understand the addressing scheme and calls to anyone off the network would not go through.

With the PeerPoint Centrex Edition, calls intended for anyone outside the network are placed through a PeerPoint box, which then translates the local address to a globally understood addressing scheme.

“At the service provider we make sure it hits a peer point before it hits other pieces of voice processing equipment,” said Dan Freedman, CEO of Jasomi. “We’re then doing a bi-directional translation between the local and the global addresses.”