Asia Netcom today announced the expansion of its dealer voice solution to feature high quality 64K uncompressed voice transmissions over dedicated circuits.
While voice communications have become a general commodity, direct voice links remain mission-critical for many businesses, especially in the financial services sectors where traders and dealing desks rely heavily on real-time and instantaneous voice communications with peers in order to relay critical information and execute trades.
"Owning significant bandwidth enables Asia Netcom to provide this service to customers as a standard offering, whereas operators who lease capacity must squeeze as much out of leased services as possible in order to ensure adequate margins," said Mark Simpson, Asia Netcom's SVP and chief technology officer. "That means our customers now enjoy better voice quality as well as increased reliability for their business-critical voice applications."
Asia Netcom's Premium Dealer Voice Service is designed to address quality mandates set by top financial institutions. The solution is designed to transport voice in a non-compressed state using 64K voice channels on Asia Netcom's state-of-the-art fiber network infrastructure. This not only ensures better voice quality, but also removes a layer of network complexity and potential points-of-failure by eliminating the need for compression and decompression equipment. Premium Dealer Voice Service is currently available for City Pairs made up of Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney with new locations to be added in the future.
Asia Netcom's Dealer Voice Service portfolio also offers voice circuits with 32K compression to key Asia Pacific locations. These services are complemented by global coverage capabilities utilizing 8K and 16K compression options. Additionally, Asia Netcom's dealer voice solution supports automatic ring-down, hoot'n-holler and hoot'n-holler with conference bridge circuits to fit the diversified needs of business operations.