MCI Canada’s Softphone product is a perfect solution for enterprises looking to provide employees with a converged voice solution. The MCI Canada Softphone could be used in place of regular telephones. Mobile workers could use laptops to receive and place PSTN calls. Enterprises could realize potential savings by using MCI Canada’s Softphone product.

Corporate administrators can utilize a web portal to create and maintain end-users account. End-users could be assigned Toronto or Montreal phone numbers and receive incoming PSTN calls. Utilizing the industry standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling, this product can enable any RFC3261 compliant softphone client. (Note: SIP softphone client is not included). You will benefit from MCI Canada’s proven packetized voice framework and the seamless worldwide PSTN/VoIP termination coverage of Verizon.

Features and Capabilities

• Works with any soft client that is compatible with RFC 3261 (SIP v2)
  
  
• Calling features include:
  • Voicemail
    
    
  • Call Display
    
    
  • Call Waiting and Visual Call Waiting
    
    
  • Call Forwarding
    
    
  • Three-way conferencing
    
    
  
  
  
• Web portal for enterprise administrators and end-users
  
  
• Administrators can assign Toronto (NPA-647) or Montreal (NPA-514) number to each end-user account
  
  
• Call quality via G.711, G.723, G.729 and G.729a CODEC
  
  
• In-band DTMF supported
  
  
• NAT friendly: able to navigate various Network Address Translation scenarios
  
  

General Benefits

• Flexibility of using any RFC3261 compliant softphone client
  
  
• Softphone operation is independent of existing PBX – no need to change or upgrade existing infrastructure
  
  
• Potential cost savings (especially when compared to cell phone charges)
  
  
• End-point location independent
  
  
• Network convergence (utilizing IP connection)