Excel Advances Development of Rich Mobile Applications and Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless 2004 Booth #3588 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2004 Extensive Partnerships Rapidly Bring to Market New, Robust, Value-Added Services Like Messaging, Personal Ring Back Tone, Mobile Centrex and More As wireless applications continue to drive mobile operator revenue growth, Excel Switching Corp. announced today at CTIA Wireless 2004 that it is aggressively advancing the creation of rich, value-added mobile services together with leading application developers for GSM and CMDA CMDA Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (India) CMDA Christian Medical & Dental Association CMDA Capital Markets Development Authority (Fiji) mobile operators using 2G - 3G and WiFi networks. Excel, a global provider of carrier-class, open services platforms, media gateways and media servers, provides a distinctive edge for mobile operators and developers to bring revenue-generating, localized mobile services to market. Excel's complete Intelligent Network (IN) wireless protocol support removes the complexities of deploying wireless applications across SS7, SIP, and wireless protocol signaling, thereby accelerating the time to market for wireless applications. Excel's Partner Pavilion, located at Booth #3588, showcases some of the wireless industry's most innovative wireless developers who are creating and implementing high-margin applications such as messaging, single number service, mobile Centrex, wireless prepaid, personal ring back tone, and conferencing. The developers include Atos Origin Atos Origin, SA (Euronext: ATO) is an international IT corporation which operates in 40 countries worldwide, with over 50,000 employees. The corporate headquarters are located in Paris, France and Zaventem, Belgium. , IntelliNet, Interactive Technology Limited (ITL ITL The ISO 4217 currency code for the Italian Lira. ), JamboTECH, and Trio. "Excel has been critical to our success in developing SS7-based applications for our wireless customers that are using a variety of protocols and network configurations," said Mats Plahn, chief technology officer of Nordic-based Trio AB Trio AB is telecommunications company which delivers Enterprise Telephony solutions to both operators (in which case the actual end users are offered a Hosted PBX solution) and directly to companies. . "They have truly created the most flexible environment allowing us to rapidly develop applications that carriers require in today's market. Excel's solutions provide the reliability and scalability necessary to allow both Trio and our customers to grow." Partner Pavilion Highlights Wireless Innovation In this highly competitive telecommunications market, carriers are demanding more and more value-added applications to maintain their competitive edge. In response, some of the most innovative applications developed on Excel's platform are being brought to market by wireless developers, including: -- Atos Origin: Atos Origin develops and markets open, distributed communications solutions for next generation public networks under the trade name ORYX oryx (ôr`ĭks), name for several small, horselike antelopes, genus Oryx, found in deserts and arid scrublands of Africa and Arabia. They feed on grasses and scrub and can go without water for long periods. (R) through Priority Call Management in Wilmington, Mass, an Atos Origin company. ORYX is a software server that works in any communications network, providing Excel-based applications such as unified communications, prepaid wireless, calling cards, and integrated voice and data messaging. -- IntelliNet IntelliNet provides application development software and services. Based in Florida, the company has enhanced Excel's products with international IN protocol support, providing Excel's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , the Converged Services Platform, with a wide variety of wireless network options for developing mobile applications. -- Interactive Technologies Limited (ITL): Based in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , ITL provides telecommunications solutions for enterprises and carriers. Excel's CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P provides the foundation for ITL to develop highly personalized and fast selling applications like personal ring back tone and missed call A missed call is when a cell phone user calls another and cuts off deliberately before the called party has a chance to pick up the call. Missed calls are used to notify another person of the caller's presence or to conveniently obtain a person's cellphone number. alert services. Carriers in Asia are currently deploying these services. -- JamboTECH: JamboTECH, based in California, provides next generation enhanced carrier services, including voice enabled calling and conferencing services, converged carrier switched services, and integrated mobile solutions for carriers, telecommunications service providers. JamboTECH uses Excel's CSP to deliver carrier grade IP-based conferencing services at the customer premises with innovative features unavailable from other conference bridge hardware providers - features like voice dialing, contact data synchronization Keeping data in two or more computers up-to-date so that each repository contains the identical information. Data in handheld devices and laptops often require synchronization with the data in a desktop machine or server. , and desktop dialing applications. -- Trio: Trio is a Nordic-based software developer for corporate telephony and call management. Excel provides the foundation for developing of mobile office solutions, mobile centrex, automatic call distribution, IN-VPN services, directory and operator services A variety of telephone services that require human intervention, including person-to-person calls, collect calls, credit card billing and directory and dialing assistance. Such services are performed by LECs, IXCs and alternative operator services (AOS), organizations that are used by , and group calling and conferencing services. Carriers throughout Europe and the Netherlands have deployed these services. "A key priority for application developers, as demonstrated by our partners today, is to stay one step ahead of market demand so that carriers can quickly add high-value services to their portfolio and stay competitive," said JC Murphy, Excel president. "Excel provides the best framework to localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. , enhance and customize services. It's a single platform which inherently allows developers and carriers to reduce the complexities that cause delays in deploying new services." About the Excel Converged Services Platform Excel's CSP, used by over 125 application developers and carriers worldwide, is leading open services platform that addresses carriers' needs for profitable applications by bridging fixed, wireless, and IP networks. Its open architecture allows wireless application developers to achieve unparalleled flexibility in terms of configurability, scalability and integration of network services, yet still maintain best-in-class call control and signaling support. Excel's CSP is an application-enabling platform that can span across 2G, 2.5G, 3G, and WiFi networks through its full array of signaling protocol It is a protocol used to identify signaling encapsulation. Signaling is used to identify the state of connection between telephones or VOIP terminals ( IP telephone or PCs or VoWLAN units ). List of signaling protocols:
About Excel Switching Corporation Founded in 1988, Excel Switching Corporation is a leading provider of carrier-class, open services platforms deployed as differentiated media gateways, media servers, signaling gateways 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; platforms for original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, and self-developing service providers worldwide. As a profitable company with over 125 customers worldwide, Excel provides the Converged Services Platform (CSP), the leading open services platform that addresses carriers' needs for profitable applications by bridging wired, wireless, and IP networks. By working closely with its application partners, Excel provides customers with highly reliable, localized solutions designed to meet their immediate and future needs. For more information, visit www.xl.com. |
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