Alcatel Selects Convedia Media Servers to Enhance Media Resource Product Suite; Convedia CMS-6000 and CMS-1000 Media Servers Become an Integral Part of Alcatel's IP Media Processing Strategy.VANCOUVER, Canada -- Convedia Corporation announced today that its market leading family of Media Servers have been chosen by Alcatel as a key media processing See media control. element for Alcatel's media resource product suite. Under the agreement, Alcatel will market and resell Convedia technology as an integral component of its media resource products to both carrier and enterprise customers around the globe. "We're very impressed with the multi-service flexibility, performance, and outstanding voice quality of Convedia's media server products," said Mark Peterson This article is about the American soccer player Mark Peterson. For the Latter-day Saint leader, see Mark E. Petersen. Mark Peterson is a retired U.S. soccer forward. , Vice President of Business Development for Alcatel's wireline communication activities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "Convedia's Media Servers were a natural fit to improve the underlying media processing capabilities of our media resource product suite. And with their use of open standards-based SIP control interfaces, we've been able to quickly and easily integrate their technology into our next-generation product portfolio. We're looking forward to utilizing Convedia's Media Servers in a number of our largest IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. infrastructure opportunities." Alcatel's media resource product suite provides multimedia user interaction and media delivery including customized announcements, multimedia streaming, multimedia conference bridging, DTMF (Dual-Tone MultiFrequency) The type of audio signals that are generated when you press the buttons on a touch-tone telephone. See also DMTF. DTMF - Dual Tone Multi Frequency collection, synthesized speech (text-to-speech), automated speech recognition, and call routing with detection of operator transfer instructions. The Alcatel products use a common architecture to provide the same capabilities to both TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. and Next Generation IP networks. "Alcatel is a strong and increasingly important supplier of complete next-generation IP telephony solutions for wireline, wireless, and enterprise customers around the globe," said Peter Briscoe, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Convedia. "Convedia's unwavering commitment to developing the industry's best IP media servers makes us the perfect partner for leading telecom equipment providers like Alcatel. We're proud to be a part of Alcatel's media resource product suite program, and we're looking forward to working together with Alcatel to deliver cost-effective converged IP telephony solutions around the globe." Convedia's award-winning family of carrier-class IP media servers reduce capital and ongoing operational costs by consolidating the functions of traditional announcement and recording servers, interactive voice response units (IVR/VRU), audio/video conference bridges, voicemail servers, and speech platforms onto a single shared media processing platform. Convedia works closely with leading network equipment providers, application developers, and system integrators to deliver some of the industry's most innovative and cost-effective network and enhanced service Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier transmission facilities used in interstate communications, that employs computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information; solutions for service provider and large enterprise customers. About Alcatel Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks; applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 12.3 billion in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit www.alcatel.com. About Convedia Convedia is the leading supplier of VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a media servers, which enable telecommunication service providers to reduce service delivery costs and increase revenues through new approaches to enhanced services. Since pioneering the IP media server market in early 2000, Convedia has deployed its multi-service media processing platforms and technology with over 100 customers worldwide, including 25 of world's top 50 carriers. Convedia's award-winning family of products includes the CMS-6000 Media Server, a carrier-class media server capable of scaling to 18,000 ports per shelf, and the CMS-1000 Media Server, a low-cost, entry-level media server. Convedia is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with regional offices in Asia, the United States, and Europe. For additional information about Convedia, its products, or the role of media servers in Softswitch, Packet Cable, or 2.5 and 3G/IMS wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com. |
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