Converge is the name of Digitro's solution for network convergence. With Converge all remote sites of a company can be linked, thus forming a corporate network. It uses the VoIP (Voice over IP) and the VoFR (Voice over Frame Relay) technologies to integrate voice and data in a single transmission medium. In addition to making communications faster, the Converge solution provides a transmission medium optimization and a significant reduction of company costs related to telephony and data.

The Converge solution implements a voice codification and compression resource based on standards such as G.729 and G.723, which results in a lower bandwidth usage for each voice channel carried by the corporate network, thus promoting a rational use of the band provided in the interconnection links.

All available technological resources, such as silence suppression through Voice Activity Detection (VAD), echo cancellation and comfort noise generation provide a better quality in communication and bandwidth use optimization. For VoIP, techniques like the RTP header compression can be activated, taking advantages like a rational resource utilization and money savings.

The system also has management and supervision features for links and network interfaces, allowing for configuration, monitoring and performance evaluation. Such feature, known as Converge Management System, has functionalities such as viewing the bandwidth used by voice and data and the traffic in the corporate network, creating a history of information that contributes in making decisions related to topology changes, link upgrade, etc.

The system can also monitor existing failures and check platform hardware items such as memory, CPU and disk usage. It's an essential tool for the corporate network operation and also helps to plan network gowth. The classification of different traffic types in the corporate network, with different priorities, is possible with QoS policies of the Converge solution, which is based on the ToS field mark-up in the IP header. This provides the system with the possibility to value important tr affic in the network, such as voice and ERP system, and prevent that services such as FTP and the Worldwide Web use all the available bandwidth.