In the age of the Internet, consumers are demanding more interaction and integration between their differ-ent means of communications across fixed, mobile, PC, tablet and TV devices. The needs of residential users are the most challenging to meet, as this group ranges from users who are satisfied with a regular phone and/or a mobile phone, to technology enthusiasts who are interested in the latest service, the most up-to-date terminals and the most exciting quality of experience. Consumers also demand the latest, most interesting services at the lowest price and they want these services to be easy to acquire, use and combine.

GENBAND’s A2 Services for Consumers powered by the A2 Communications Application Server enables residential users to take control of their communications and define when, how and where calls reach the family. This solution provides easier control of existing features, such as call waiting, call transfer and conferencing, through an easy-to-use soft client that can be used alone or in combination with a phone.

End User Consumer Features• Comprehensive IP voice and multimedia features:

including the most common residential features deployed today• Family Meet-Me Conferencing: Users can chat with

all their friends, at the same time, while watching the football game or their favorite reality TV show.

• Network-based Address Book: No more lost numbers if a phone is lost.

• Video Calling: From computer to computer or from computer to videophone.

• Federated Instant Messaging: GENBAND’s Personal Communicator client enables users to simplify their chat by plac-ing Yahoo, Google, MSN and AIM contacts into a single list.

• Personal Agent Web Portal: An easy to use web portal that users can visit to view and personalize all aspects of their phone lines, including creating or modifying rules for incoming calls based on time of day or week, Caller ID, call logs for sent, missed and answered calls, and managing services.

• Open Programmability: GENFuzion APIs enable extend-ing communications services into consumer applications such as calling features from web apps like Facebook

Service Provider Benefits• Scalability from hundreds to millions of residential end users.

Multiple sites can be networked to scale to several millions end users if required

• Carrier Grade Reliability: several levels of redundancy enable 99.999% uptime resulting in no more than 5 minutes of downtime per year. Option for geographic redundancy to deploy redundant application servers in locations over 500km apart

• Flexibility: deployable as Standalone SIP App Server, IMS compliant App Server or embedded within industry leading C20 softswitch

• End to End Solution: GENBAND GENiUS industry stan-dard ATCA platform offering plug and play functions such as call servers, session border control, gateways and application servers in the same chassis

Mobility for ConsumersGENBAND’s A2 provides powerful capabilities to extend a residen-tial VoIP service onto a consumer’s smartphone or tablet. The solu-tion includes a customizable Over the Top Mobile client that works over the popular Apple iOS, Android and Blackberry mobile operat-ing systems. All of the powerful features of GENBAND’s residential VoIP service are delivered consistently to a consumer smartphone/tablet while they are away from home. This solution can reduce consumer’s monthly mobile voice and texting bills by enjoying the convenience of their residential VoIP/texting capabilities while using lower data rates in Wi-Fi/3G/4G coverage.

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Converged Communication Services for the TVGENBAND’s A2 Solution for Consumers enables users to experi-ence converged communications services from the comfort of their living rooms. Users can manage voicemail messages, call logs, voicemail; see who’s calling on their TV; and easily reject, ignore or forward calls using the TV remote. This bundle option comes with GENBAND’s Web Applications Manager, an innovative product that connects the VoIP network with the middleware that runs on the Digital TV set-top box, opening the TV to a new world of communi-cation services, including:• Caller ID Display• Call Disposition• Call Logs• Personal Address Book• Click-to-call• Visual Voicemail

Broad InteroperabilityGENBAND solutions protect current equipment investments, while opening a flexible, cost-effective pathway for network evolution. GENBAND has achieved interoperability success with over 80% of the industry’s leading residential IP phone manufacturers, and has tested across all major broadband access types and 100% of IP Pro-tocols. To demonstrate compatibility with mobile VoIP and 3G/4G networks, GENBAND has also performed interoperability tests on industry leading Smartphone devices, including the iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

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