A2 Communications Application Server

GENBAND Difference

The market-leading A2 Communications Application Server is the only application server that has fully integrated multimedia applications for voice, video, conferencing, instant messaging, presence, collaboration and mobility.

The A2 is also the only application server that works in TDM, IP and IMS networks simultaneously for hybrid network deployments. Subscribers can be part of the same closed user group and be a mix of any or all of these simultaneously, thereby relieving the need to strand legacy infrastructure.

The integrated wireless mobility manager provides for mobile integration with any mobile phone for services such as fixed mobile convergence, voice over LTE, mobile office and mobile unified communications.

The A2 open development interfaces, programmability tools and GENFuzion developer community allow for development groups and partners to leverage the A2 capabilities to create innovative and differentiating applications for their customer base.

Benefits

OPERATOR

• Consistent service offering over phone, TV, mobile, tablet or computer enabling service providers to reduce churn and uplift revenue
• Utilizes existing investments in OAM back-office, fault management, performance monitoring and provisioning while helping with billing correlations in cellular and SIP domains
• Interoperable with most industry-leading IP PBX and IP phone vendors, major broadband access types and Internet Protocols
• Improve time-to-market with GENBAND Professional Services
• Increase revenue and reduce churn for operators by offering differentiating unified communications services
• Provide valuable unified communications services for small business customers previously not possible
• Create custom value-add applications using the A2 Development Suite and Developer Community
• Interoperable with any mobile network making it deployable in 2G/3G/4G CDMA and GSM networks
• Offer a purely mobile business solution that drives voice, data and SMS traffic, thereby increasing mobile ARPU

END USER

• A single user interface providing voice/video calling, instant messaging/presence, conferencing/collaboration, email, voicemail and text messaging at your fingertips
• Comprehensive IP voice and multimedia feature set for business and residential users
• Seamless mobile integration into the enterprise

Overview

GENBAND’s A2 Communications Application Server is a full-featured hosted IP telephony and multimedia application server currently servicing approximately 200 operators worldwide. The A2 provides the following applications for Mobile, Fixed Line, Broadband or Cable Operators today:

• Cloud-based consumer applications
• Business Applications
• Mobility and Mobile office
• Unified Communications

The A2 is a highly scalable and reliable, standards-based application server that provides revenue-generating applications for operators no matter what kind of network, including: TDM, IP, GSM, CDMA, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE and IMS.

CLOUD-BASED CONSUMER APPLICATIONS: Provide applications and services to your consumer customers that not only make their lives easier but keep them coming back for more.

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS: The A2 hosted in your service provider network can offer services to small and medium businesses alike. Your business customers can outsource their phone system needs to you, allowing them to focus on what they do best.

Large enterprises with their distributed, global offices and workforce can leverage the A2 as their corporate phone system ensuring a consistent communications experience for every employee regardless of location.

A2 provides the means to interconnect existing on-premise phone systems offering a converged voice and data service from the same provider. A2 integrates multiple offices whether IP, TDM or hybrid, into a single business group providing unified communications, coordinated dialing, forwarding and transferring of calls between locations. Business groups may contain any combination of end users connected through a SIP PBX trunk or hosted directly by the A2 without a PBX or IP PBX. These features alone can save business customers thousands of dollars a year on intercompany communications and provide a uniform feature set across disparate PBX/IP PBX and hosted users.

MOBILITY AND MOBILE OFFICE: The A2 Mobile Office application allows end users to use a mobile handset as if it were wired directly to their business office with the same features, dial plan, calling line ID and long distance plan as their main office phone.

UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS: The A2 Communications Application Server integrates real-time communications such as instant messaging, presence, voice/video telephony, conferencing and collaboration with non-real-time communications such as email, calendar, contacts, voicemail, SMS and fax. Instead of having multiple applications for various functions, the A2 integrates with existing Microsoft or Lotus Notes clients providing the end user with the same user experience they already know and love. The A2 provides a stand-alone client for those who want their communications separated, or who choose not to implement the full Microsoft or IBM communications solution.

PROGRAMMABILITY: The A2 Application Programming Interfaces allow third-party developers and operators to not only customize our applications but also create new and differentiating applications for their market and needs. The possibilities are endless with GENBAND A2 and the GENFuzion Developer Community.

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