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.