Covergence Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's 2006 Product of the Year Award.Eclipse[TM] CXC-50 Recognized for Outstanding Innovation MAYNARD, Mass. -- Covergence announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center ([R]))'s INTERNET TELEPHONY Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Eclipse[TM] CXC-50 as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998[TM]. Covergence's Eclipse[TM] model CXC-50 is an ultra-compact access-edge session border controller A Session Border Controller is a device used in some VoIP networks to exert control over the signaling and usually also the media streams involved in setting up, conducting, and tearing down calls. (SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. ) designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and branch offices that delivers big business VoIP at small business prices. Like other Eclipse appliances, the CXC-50 enables organizations to scale, secure, control and manage VoIP and other real-time services, such as video, presence, IM, click-to-dial and multimedia conferencing See videoconferencing and data conferencing. . Its low cost and small footprint combined with its unparalleled feature set make the CXC-50 the ideal solution for delivering the "business-grade" VoIP that provides SMBs and branch offices with a competitive market advantage. "We are honored to receive this distinguished award, which validates our team's hard work and innovation and acknowledges the Eclipse as mission-critical to the widespread adoption of next-generation IP communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. ," said Kenneth Kuenzel, founder, VP of engineering and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Covergence. "Recognition from INTERNET TELEPHONY underscores the industry's need for solutions that will help service providers and enterprises scale, secure and control next-generation networks and helps organizations identify best-of-breed products, such as the Eclipse, that are available to address these challenges." "INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to bestow be·stow tr.v. be·stowed, be·stow·ing, be·stows 1. To present as a gift or an honor; confer: bestowed high praise on the winners. 2. Covergence with a 2006 Product of the Year Award. Each year INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine recognizes companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. "Covergence has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. We're proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future." A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February, 2007 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. (www.itmag.com) For more information about TMC and INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, please visit www.tmcnet.com. About Covergence Covergence is the leader in scaling, securing and controlling VoIP and other real-time services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP). The Covergence Eclipse[TM] is a series of access-edge session border controllers purpose-built to securely and reliably connect users to VoIP and multi-media services while giving organizations the complete control and visibility they require. For more information, visit www.covergence.com. About INTERNET TELEPHONY([R]) magazine Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY is the only magazine that focuses on providing information in IP communications technologies. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine provides readers with the best information necessary to learn about and purchase the equipment, software, and services. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Miercom. The only BPA-audited publication that's 100% dedicated to providing the highest quality content for the IP communications market, INTERNET TELEPHONY has 55,000 dedicated readers. About TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and 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. Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,600 sites in the world by alexa.com(1), TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical topical /top·i·cal/ (top´i-k'l) pertaining to a particular area, as a topical antiinfective applied to a certain area of the skin and affecting only the area to which it is applied. top·i·cal adj. online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. ((1)alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) |
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