Service bundling is intuitive to a converged IP network. If everything is delivered over one service, then it goes without saying that we can truly offer you bundled products spanning across voice, video and data.

The internet home clearly demonstrates the capabilities of a Next Generation Network whereby different appliances and gadgets in our homes can be centrally or remotely controlled over a single IP network. Imagine being able to answer a telephone call from your TV, pause your favourite TV show on your phone, and switch off the lights you left on at home from your office PC. Today, this is a reality.

NGN will bring new services such as:

Video Conferencing: Point-to-point and point-to-multipoint multimedia communications using video phone or PC camera. The network supports all major coding standards. This allows for the interoperability of various manufacturers. Peers can also interact with instant messaging boards to communicate as well as transfer files simultaneous allowing for improved efficiency.

Supplementary Voice Services:
These include unique feature sets typically found only on a PABX, making your landline a flexible tool. These include features such as wake up service, call waiting, conference calling, black lists and white list, just to mention a few. More amazing is the ability to experience service ubiquity across your mobile and your landline allowing for many of the value added services to be managed on either system including universal credit for both your prepaid mobile and landline.

Presence Services: These are a true reflection of the intelligence inherent in NGN. Presence allows you to transfer services including calls, voice mail, sms, emails etc. to your preferred medium. Imagine a situation whereby you are in the office and you receive all your calls on your soft-phone client on your PC as well as email and voice mail in outlook. As soon as you go out for lunch or for a meeting these respective services are automatically rerouted to your mobile phone including instant messaging and even video conferencing using our state of the art 3G network. At the end of the day you then flag all messages from your boss as urgent and as soon as you reach home and switch on your TV an instant message board appears on your screen from your boss, which you transfer to your TV in your bedroom. This sounds very futuristic, but the NGN network we are building today can deliver all of this and more.

High Speed Data: Gone will be the days of bandwidth constraints. Our Metro Ethernet network will make the provisioning of data links of one gigabit with full SLA management as easy as a click of the mouse. The simplicity of delivering this service comes from the fact that all you need is an Ethernet port. No high end routers or CPE are required for circuit termination. No more expensive interfaces, no more complex skills developing access lists, no more costly firewall equipment, because the intelligence moves from the customer premise equipment to the network itself. Remote workers can have VPNs to their headquarters with full SLA management with no major capital expenditure on your part.