Commx Picks Ibm Blade Servers, Linux To Increase Speed, Support National Growth

Commx Picks Ibm Blade Servers, Linux To Increase Speed, Support National Growth

Leading broadband voice communications provider CommX has selected IBM blade server technology running Linux to increase network capacity by 10 times while reducing costs by 25 percent.

“Due to our rapid growth nationwide, CommX was beginning to reach network call capacity, which meant that our clients’ phone service could be disrupted—not an option,” said CommX president Oscar Williams. “Customers rely on our service to complete their own critical daily business transactions, and they take notice very quickly if access to telephone features takes longer than one second.”

To ensure that they would continue to provide stable, reliable phone service, CommX migrated their BroadSoft VoIP application software from a Sun Sparc platform running Solaris to an IBM Bladecenter platform running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.

The new IBM Bladecenter systems are so fast that VoIP gateway service carriers to the public switched telephone network had to make changes to accommodate the increased speed coming from CommX.

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