Norphonic also features built in Modbus TCP, UDP and SNMP functionality allowing telephone components (hook, microphone and fiber ports) to be monitored, programmed, upgraded or maintained from a central location, greatly reducing maintenance costs associated with traditional telephone systems.

A Prevision traffic management system from Norphonic’s parent company Trafsys was also selected manage the technology inside the tunnel.

The Results

The Flenja Tunnel is one of over 40 road tunnels in the western parts of Norway which rely on Norphonic VoIP Telephones for emergency roadside communications.
A key benefit with the new VoIP system is that it can be upgraded in the future without loss or differentiation in the level of service, as Thomas Lyngtun Hansen, technical director at Norphonic explains: ”Using Norphonic Open Source SIP telephones, integrators are able to deliver systems that are better than those that can be achieved when restricted to a single vendor’s product offering. Using Norphonic, integrators are free to work with any IP based PBX switchboard solution, whether it is Alcatel, Cisco, Asterisk, or other IP solutions such as Vegastream.”

The Norphonic Heavy Duty VoIP Telephones and Prevision was implemented by Otera, a large traffic system integrator in Norway, and the overall project took nine months to complete.

Mr. Are Omdal, project director at Otera commented ”We use Norphonic telephones for all our Emergency Communications in Norway. The products are very reliable and the service is outstanding”.