VoIP rollout in Germany and Luxembourg

Telecommunications group Artelis has chosen Thomson's voice over internet protocol (VoIP) softswitches for deployment of IP telephony by its subsidiaries in Luxembourg and Germany with over 250,000 subscribers.

Artelis selected Thomson's Cirpack VoIP platform to launch a double play offer packaged with primary line telephony to its residential customers as well as IP centrex services with advanced business features to enterprise customers.

The firm owns two telecommunication companies Cegecom in Luxembourg and VSE NET in Germany and also provides wholesale communications services to other operators.

Mr Leidinger, Artelis' general manager, said: "We were especially interested in Thomson's interoperability with multiple networks, including traditional telephony and cable infrastructures, which made the Cirpack softswitch suitable for both countries as well as for our wholesale clients some of whom are cable operators."

Bruno Fabre, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Thomson added that the firm's Cirpack VoIP softswitches "are uniquely positioned to help operators with hybrid networks and [multi-country] operations launch rich broadband services".