VPN (Virtual Private Network) Features

VPN provides secure communications over the Internet. It establishes a virtual encrypted tunnel to safely carry data between the LAN and any point outside the network.

Site-to-Site Access

• IPSec and Triple DES (3DES)
• MD5 and SHA-1 authentication
• Unlimited licenses

Stateful inspection technology monitors every incoming and outgoing packet, providing ultra-secure firewall security. Policies can also be set for an entire group not required for each user allowing both efficiency and flexibility in network security administration. Transparent Mode provides the ability to seamlessly drop in firewall security without disruption of existing network addresses.

Familiar management interfaces allow device and network management from virtually any location.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) about Q-UPS+

1. What is the price of Q-UPS+?

Q-UPS+ is priced according to its capacity for managing a certain number of concurrent VoIP call sessions as follows:

(a) Base System built in an industrial grade server running Linux Operating System in a 19 rack-mountable metal chassis with a starter capacity for managing up to 8 concurrent VoIP calls

MSRP of Base System: US$1995.00

(b) Software upgrade for increase in capacity for managing an increment of 8 additional concurrent VoIP calls. Upgrade can be up to a total capacity of 240 concurrent VoIP call sessions

MSRP for increment of 8 concurrent VoIP calls is US$500.00

2. We already have a VPN Server and a Firewall, can we just purchase the Q-UPS?

Yes, you may order from us Q-UPS (without the VPN server and Firewall).

The MSRP of the Q-UPS is US$1,495.00

The MSRP for increment of 8 concurrent VoIP calls is US$500.00

3. Can Q-UPS+ or Q-UPS be used without using Ecocarrier's softswitching and billing service?

Yes, you can. If you intend only to send traffic between two endpoint VoIP gateways in a gateway-to-gateway mode, you may install a Q-UPS+ or Q-UPS at each end to use them to apply the packetsaving treatment to the VoIP call traffic originating from each of the endpoint gateways.

4. What does Ecocarrier charge for providing the softswitching and CDR generation service for my inbound and outbound packetsaved (by using Q-UPS+ or Q-UPS) VoIP traffic from/to any H323 compliant VoIP gateway?

Ecocarrier charges US$0.005/minute for routing the traffic from your VoIP gateway to your clients' VoIP gateways and vice versa and for providing you with CDRs so that you may bill the customers yourselves.

If required, Ecocarrier can also provide complete billing and invoicing for the packetsaved VoIP traffic routed through its Q-Regime softswitch. Please ask us for a separate price quote for such a service.

5. What is the advantage provided by Q-UPS+ over the packetsaver that one can get as a software upgrade for Quintum's Tenor VoIP gateways?

Quintum's packetsaver feature for Tenor gateway is based on a proprietary algorithm for saving packets sent from one Tenor gateway to another Tenor gateway that is also equipped with the packetsaver feature. This packetsaver feature is useful when you want to send VoIP call traffic only between Tenor gateways that are equipped with packetsaver.

But if you have to send the VoIP call traffic from a Tenor gateway with packetsaver to another Tenor gateway that is not equipped with packetsaver or to a VoIP gateway that is not a Tenor gateway as is often the case when you send VoIP traffic for international call termination, the packetsaver will not be used for that call.

However, Q-UPS+ working with Ecocarrier's Q-Regime-PS will not have such a problem.

6.  How much bandwidth is required for a VoIP call and how does packetsaver technology work?

For answers please refer to pages II-16 to II-18 in the Quintum's Tenor Features description.