InnoMedia's MTA 3308 IP Phone is specifically targeted at broadband service providers who want to deliver new revenue-generating telephony services.

by Wayne Kawamoto [August 29, 2002]

InnoMedia, a supplier of Internet and broadband access IP telephony solutions, announced the launch of its MTA 3308 IP Phone, the latest addition to the company's MTA 3000 Series of next generation multimedia terminal adapters (MTAs). The product is specifically targeted at broadband service providers who want to deliver new revenue-generating telephony services.

According to the company, its MTA 3308 IP Phone has the look and feel of a regular desktop telephone with the provisioning, configuration management, and enhanced calling features that are only possible with IP telephony.

InnoMedia's MTA 3308 IP Phone is designed to offer system interoperability through an end-to-end system approach, which should provide a low-risk, ready-to-deploy IP telephony solution for service providers in the broadband access markets.

The company says that the phone may be used in a multitude of system configurations including GR303/V5.2 gateways, PacketCable Call Agents/Softswitches, or SIP-based softswitches. It also supports industry standard protocols including PacketCable NCS 1.0, MGCP 1.0, and SIP 2.0.

To provide PSTN-like voice quality the MTA 3308 IP Phone relies on advanced voice compression codecs, including G.728, G.729E, G.711, and G.723.1; line echo cancellation (G.168); voice activity detection; and comfort noise generation. It also supports Quality of Service (QoS) standards, including QoS IEEE 802.1 p/Q and TOS tagging, and has a built-in switch that assigns priorities to voice packets, which should reduce voice packet drop and minimize voice latency.

In addition, it is designed to offer easy customer installation and flexible management to reduce a service provider's operation risk by supporting HTTP, SNMP, TFTP, FTP, and Telnet for remote provisioning, software upgrading and configuring, monitoring and testing. It also checks for upgrades and downloads the latest configurations.

The MTA 3308 IP Phone features an 80-character (4x20) dot matrix LCD with menu navigation keys, a speakerphone, 50-number phonebook, 10 memory speed-dial keys, and a message-waiting indicator. It comes with two built-in Ethernet 10/100 Base-T RJ-45 ports that may let users share a WAN connection with a desktop PC. Additional phone features include, date and time display, call timer, caller ID, call logging, last number redialing, mute and flash. CLASS features are also supported via network-based Call Agents or GR303/V5.2 gateways, which may offer service providers the opportunity to deliver value-added revenue services to their customers.

"The MTA 3308 IP Phone is an ideal CPE device for broadband service providers looking to deliver new revenue-generating CLASS and value-added telephony services to their customers," says Dr. Nan-Sheng Lin, president and co-founder of InnoMedia, Inc. "It has the look and feel of a desktop telephone, it seamlessly interoperates with a variety of PacketCable, MGCP, and SIP CLASS 5 softswitches, and offers enhanced calling features, providing broadband service providers with a low-risk, ready to deploy solution for their consumer or business customers."

"In addition to offering the most interoperable MTAs available, we also have the broadest portfolio of broadband VoIP CPE devices on the market today," added Nan-Sheng. "Our MTA 3000 Series offers broadband service providers tremendous flexibility and choice in offering their subscribers standalone or embedded MTAs, and now an IP Phone. This continues to further strengthen InnoMedia's position as the best partner for broadband service providers, MSO's and solution partners looking to incorporate the value of voice in their service and product offerings."

Pricing and availability
The MTA 3308 IP Phone is available now. Prices start at $199.95.

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