Cabovisao offers voice service to more than 160,000 customers

Cabovisao, the cable operator in Portugal, with more than 770,000 homes passed, has deployed the Nuera VoIP gateway to offer telephone services. Nuera’s RDT-8v broadband access gateway enables Cabovisao to leverage their Class 5 circuit-switched infrastructure to offer voice services over an IP network.

Currently, Cabovisao offers voice service to more than 160,000 customers using Constant Bit Rate (CBR) technology. Cabovisao has implemented bi-directional HFC network and national fiber-optic backbone in Portugal for the delivery of cable television, high-speed Internet access, telephony and data transport services. Nuera’s technology helps Cabovisao bundle these services over an IP network.