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IPeria Partners With Voyant Technologies to Integrate Messaging, Communications and Voice Conferencing for Small-to-Medium-Sized Enterprise Market.


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BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000

Voyant Joins IPeria's ValuEdge Partners Program to Test and

Deliver Interoperable Next- Generation Enhanced Services

IPeria Inc. today announced that Voyant Technologies, a leading provider of enhanced voice solutions, has joined the IPeria ValuEdge Partners Program. The two firms will integrate Voyant's ReadiVoice conferencing with the IPeria Service Node platform, offering service providers an integrated messaging, communications and voice conferencing solution that will directly appeal to small- and medium-sized enterprise market.

"This partnership is an important step in speeding the introduction of next-generation communications services by NextGen telcos, wireless providers, competitive local exchange carriers and cable operators targeting the small-to-medium enterprise market," stated IPeria's vice president of business development, Chris Berluti. "Voyant's commitment validates our strategy of using the IPeria Service Node (IPSN IPSN International Product Safety News
IPSN Information Processing in Sensor Networks
) to deliver next-generation services that are so desirable and easy-to-use that service providers will be able to dramatically reduce churn and grow revenue-per-subscriber," continued Berluti.

Voyant's scalable and reliable ReadiVoice conferencing solution is a next generation enhanced voice application that enables on-demand voice conferencing services -- users can self-initiate and control multi-party conferences using a telephone keypad A telephone keypad is a keypad that appears on a “Touch Tone” telephone. It was standardised when the Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) system was introduced in the 1960s, and replaced the rotary dial.  or a web-based graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI)

Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to
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 recent TeleSpan reports, on-demand, automated voice conferencing is a rapidly growing market that has dramatically surpassed that of the operator-assisted market segment.

"We are pleased that IPeria has chosen to integrate our voice conferencing technology with the IPeria Service Node," stated Voyant's vice president of business development, Michael Remacle. "This strategic partnership insures that both Voyant and IPeria products are interoperable, thus enabling service providers to easily and quickly bring the integrated solution to market. By offering a combined solution such as this, service providers will empower end-users with additional services that will provide new and effective ways to communicate. As a result, service providers will be able to retain new and existing customers."

The IPSN speeds time to market and assures application compatibility by using 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) and Real-time Transport Protocol (protocol) Real-Time Transport Protocol - (RTP) An Internet protocol for transmitting real-time data such as audio and video. RTP itself does not guarantee real-time delivery of data, but it does provide mechanisms for the sending and receiving applications to support streaming  (RTP (1) (Rapid Transport Protocol) The protocol used in IBM's High Performance Routing (HPR) system.

(2) (Realtime Transport Protocol) An IP protocol that supports real time transmission of voice and video.
) to enable next generation networks to interface with softswitches, media gateways and integrated access devices. In addition to Voyant's ReadiVoice, IPeria offers 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.  and voice-activated voice e-mail.

IPeria's ValuEdge Partners Program helps softswitch and media gateway manufacturers leverage their products and provides the transition between legacy and next-generation networks demanded by major service providers. The Program also ensures interoperability in multi-vendor systems environments, guaranteeing that platforms and applications will work together via standards-based protocols, including SIP and RTP.

About Voyant Technologies Inc.

Voyant Technologies delivers innovative and collaborative enhanced voice solutions for switched and IP networks. The company's ground-breaking technologies enable a suite of reliable and scalable voice applications including conferencing capabilities, click-to-talk, and other e-communication services for CASPs, ASPs, service providers and next-gen carriers. In addition, Voyant's open APIs encourage developers to create differentiating voice and enriched multi-media applications that meet the needs of diverse vertical markets.

[pilcrow (paragraph sign)] Over its 20-year history of innovation, Voyant has and continues to partner with best-of-breed companies to develop and deliver the next-generation of business communications. A successful start-up with over 225 customers in 22 different countries, Voyant has a true global vision. For more information about Voyant Technologies, visit www.voyanttech.com or call 888-447-1087.

About IPeria Inc.

IPeria is a leading producer of carrier-class infrastructure software and services that enable next-generation telecommunications service providers, including facilities-based CLECs, other CLECs, interexchange carriers and Internet telephony service providers (communications) Internet Telephony Service Providers - (ITSP) Companies providing IP Telephony.  to support IP-based applications and the convergence of voice and data networks. Applications can be developed rapidly by service providers or third parties because of the IPeria Service Node's powerful and open software capabilities. IPeria's communications applications put subscribers in control of their applications through the use of its unique e@ccount. Users of the e@ccount gain access to messages through a variety of single access points, including wireline or wireless telephones, standard e-mail clients or Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical
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. Privately held IPeria is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 22,876 at the 2000 census. History
Burlington was first settled in 1641 and was officially incorporated on February 28, 1799.
 with regional sales offices in Atlanta, Dallas, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  and San Jose San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
. Additional information on the Company can be found on the Web at http://www.IPeria.com.
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