VocalTec Communications, Ltd. provides carrier-class voice-over-Internet protocol solutions (VoIP) for communication service providers. It offers trunking, peering, service delivery, and access gateway solutions that enables deployment of next-generation networks. The company’s products include Essentra CX that enables wholesale and retail long-distance carriers to build VoIP-based networks, with seamless connectivity to PSTN/SS7 services; Essentra EX that facilitates peering between SIP and/or H.323 networks; Essentra BAX, which enables the delivery of residential and hosted enterprise VoIP services over various broadband infrastructures; and Essentra GATE that enables a standards-based softswitch to control VoIP subscribers connected through V5.x and GR-303 legacy access systems. The company also provides legacy products comprising TdGATE 3X00, which is a voice over broadband gateway that enables service providers to provide ISDN and telephony services over broadband access infrastructure based on ATM AAL2 standards; HUNT 8110, a broadband access concentrator, which can aggregate several types of traffic coming from the enterprise network, including TDM and IP, towards the ATM network; VocalTec GW2000 and GW480 carrier grade gateways, which provides TDM to VoIP interconnection; VocalTec VA, a gatekeeper used to manage a network of gateways and enable routing management of such networks; and network management software, used to manage the network and provide element management and OSS functions to such networks. VocalTec Communications has operations primarily in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.