Interoperability

As today’s business consumers adopt new technology they are increasingly sensitive to capital and operational expenses as well as business continuity. Graceful migration to next generation communications infrastructure requires the ability to pragmatically incorporate new technical solutions into the existing stream of business. Often this requires significant interoperability between carriers and existing customer infrastructure or peering service provider offerings. While convergence of data and voice applications over a single physical and logical infrastructure does bring additional resource efficiency, it is not implemented at the expense of existing business processes.

In the traditional telecommunications service provider model developed in a regulatory environment over the past 100 years, interoperability was not the main issue as all service offerings were built, deployed and maintained under a single monopolistic umbrella. Today in the deregulated world of telecom, ecosystem partners must work in tandem to develop solution sets that equal or surpass traditional regulated service offerings with concern to quality and value.

Carrier Access is actively involved in the standards development of next generation communications performing regular interoperability testing with key strategic partners for deploying market ready solutions. Additionally, Carrier Access maintains vendor certification to ensure maintained interoperability as new versions of partner systems are released. By taking an active role with designing, testing, deploying and maintaining next generation service offerings in conjunction with best of breed telecom partners, Carrier Access has a proven track record of enabling service providers to quickly develop and deploy market ready solutions that supplement or expand existing service portfolios.