Convedia Takes on Leadership Role as Founding Member of IMS Forum; Peter Briscoe Named to Board of Directors of New Industry Association Dedicated to IMS Solution Interoperability, Standards and Best Practices.VANCOUVER, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography -- Convedia Corporation today announced that Peter Briscoe, Convedia's 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. , has been named to the board of directors of the recently formed IMS Forum (IP Multimedia Subsystem Forum, Fremont, CA, www.imsforum.org) An industry association dedicated to the acceleration of IP convergence and interoperability of IP services. The organization also provides best practices consulting on interconnectivity for fixed, mobile and cable service . Convedia, along with other founding members and industry participants, will work together in the IMS forum to accelerate the adoption of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ) by providing an environment for the discussion and resolution of real-world implementation issues In the Business world, companies frequently set-up a connection between which they transfer data. When the connection is being set-up, it is referred to as implementation. When issues occur during this phase, they are known as implementation issues. related to open multi-vendor IMS implementations. IMS Forum members, comprised of service providers, equipment vendors, application providers, system integrators and government agencies will be working together to develop cost-effective technical frameworks for converged IP services delivered over wireline, cable, 3G, WiFi and WiMAX networks. The IMS Forum will leverage its heritage and build upon the existing foundation created by its predecessors: the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC See IMS Forum. ), the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC (1) (Internet Systems Consortium, Redwood City, CA www.isc.org) An organization founded by Paul Vixie, Carl Malamud and Rick Adams in 1994 and later sponsored by UUNET and other Internet companies. ) and the IP Multimedia Carrier Coalition. "IMS will enable the delivery of traditional voice and new multimedia services at lower costs and with greater flexibility than ever before," said Michael Khalilian, chairman and president, IMS Forum. "Convedia has a long history of industry leadership in delivering products which fully embrace the fundamental principles of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), namely open, standards-based IP platforms for providing telecommunication services to customers regardless of how, where and when they want to access them. I am very pleased to recognize and welcome Convedia as one of the founding members of the IMS Forum, and to have Peter Briscoe playing such a key role in the IMS Forum." "True IMS deployments will consist of a multi-vendor service delivery platform connected seamlessly together via well defined standards," noted Peter Briscoe, Convedia's President and CEO. "Through the cooperation of many industry stakeholders in the IMS Forum, today's leading service providers and solution vendors are taking an important step forward in addressing real-world IMS implementation issues faced by vendors and services providers alike around the globe." Convedia is the recognized market leader in IP Media Servers that provide the MRFP MRFP Management Report of Fund Performance MRFP Multimedia Resource Function Processor (telecommunications) MRFP Media Resource Function Process Part in 3G/IMS packet networks. Convedia media servers deliver the MRFP media processing See media control. essential for a broad range of converged IMS services including push-to-talk, ringback tones, mobile video services, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , speech controlled services, and multimedia conferencing. Mobile application developers can integrate Convedia's broad MRFP capabilities into their IMS solutions using SIP, H.248, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. or other standards-based control protocols, resulting in accelerated feature support and time-to-market. Additional benefits for mobile network operators include cost savings, multi-service support, improved reliability, and industry-leading scalability. About the IMS Forum The IMS FORUM is a global, non-profit industry association devoted to interoperable IMS services and solutions. The mission of the Forum is to accelerate the adoption of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) by providing an environment for discussion and resolution of real-world implementation issues relating to interoperability, best practices, and standards-based architectures in the application layer. In addition, the Forum will provide consultancy to the industry, service providers, and vendors on best practices and approaches for IMS rollouts and interconnectivity. For additional information, please visit www.IMSForum.org About Convedia Convedia is the leading supplier of VoIP and IMS 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 175 customers worldwide, including over 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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