Newport Networks
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| Type | Public (LSE:NNG) |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters |  Caldicot, Monmouthshire |
| Industry | Telecommunications hardware |
| Products | Session Border Controllers |
| Website | www.newport-networks.com |
Newport Networks is a manufacturer of Voice over IP Session Border Controllers (SBCs), founded by entrepreneur Terry Matthews. Headquartered in Caldicot, near Newport in South Wales, with its R&D facility in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the company's current hardware products consist of the chassis based 1460 and the smaller 4U 310. These two hardware platforms can run a number of different applications, these include Stand-alone or Integrated SBC, distributed SBC, Interconnect Border Controller Function (I-BCF) or Interconnect Border Gateway Function (I-BGF), the latter two being elements of IMS.
The company was founded in September 2000 and floated on the London Stock Exchange AIM (Alternate Investment Market), and has recently started to achieve significant sales, in particular to Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest integrated telecommunications operator, which has deployed Newport Networks' 1460 session border controller in its VoIP network. Prior to that, the company's most notable customer was UK based Kingston Communications
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[edit] Executives
Sir Terence H. Matthews, Kt., OBE, P.Eng., F.I.E.E. FREng. - Chairman
John Everard - Director/CEO
John Ackroyd - Director/CFO/Company Secretary
Simon Gibson, OBE - Director
Sir David Rowe-Beddoe - Director
[edit] Origin of Newport name
Founder, Sir Terence H. Matthews has a history of naming companies after places in South Wales, from where he originates. Newport Networks is named after the city of Newport which is Matthews' birthplace. The company's headquarters is just outside Newport at Caldicot.
[edit] List of Products
1460 Session Border Controller The 1460 can operate as node which handles VoIP signalling only (Border Controller), a node which handles signalling and media (Border Gateway) or both (Session Border Controller). It can interface with an external softswitch using SIP or H.248 protocols and has been proved under independent testing to be capable of handling over 1,000 call attempts per second and 160,000 simultaneous call sessions.
310 Border Gateway Based on the same hardware elements as the 1460, the 310 BG is provided in a single 4U high 19" chassis and supports from 1,000 to over 25,000 concurrent calls. All variants support a call establishment rate of up to 140 media sessions per second.
