NMS Communications Chosen by IdeaWurx to Power its Ground-Breaking Short Message Service Solution for Philippines' Largest Cellular Network Providers.Business/Technology Editors FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2001 NMS' Award-Winning Platform Leveraged for Largest SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. Market Worldwide; PhoneTxt System Handles 10 Percent of the World's SMS Messages NMS See NetWare Management System. Communications (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : NMSS NMSS National Multiple Sclerosis Society NMSS Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards NMSS New Model Special Schools NMSS Network Management Support Services ), the leading supplier of technology for tomorrow's networks, today announced that IdeaWurx, a telecommunication solutions provider and integrator based in the Philippines, selected the company's award-winning voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. technology to power PhoneTxt, a ground-breaking short message service (SMS) solution currently used by two of the Philippines' largest carriers - Globe Telecom and Philippine Long Distance Telephony Company (PLDT PLDT Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company ). Short message services are brief text messages created using a phone keypad and transmitted via cell phone. The PhoneTxt SMS solution provides enhanced SMS functionality to carriers, by making it possible to access the SMS system of any cellular network operator using a landline phone. PhoneTxt allows messages to be created via voice prompts over the telephone, and sent to a cellular phone as text characters. Globe Telecom currently uses PhoneTxt for its 1-900-TXT service, which includes SMS services as well as text services that provide movie schedules, horoscopes and daily quotations. PLDT also offers IdeaWurx's solution through its PLDT 135 PhoneTxt System and Smart cell phones. Recognized as an innovative new product, IdeaWurx's PhoneTxt solution has won the Philippine's Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM CITEM Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions ) 2001 product of the year award. The Philippines is considered to have one of the highest SMS traffic rates in not only Asia, but also the entire world. Globe Telecom and PLDT each currently process an average of 90 million SMS text messages per day, a number that accounts for 10-15 percent of the world's SMS traffic. The popularity of the PhoneTxt landline testing capability is also significant, with the two carriers already enabling 20,000 and 40,000 landline text messages per day respectively. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the GSM Association (GSM Association, Dublin, Ireland, www.gsmworld.com) A membership association founded in 1987 that promotes the development and evolution of the GSM communications standard worldwide. , a leading representative body in the global wireless industry, SMS traffic is growing rapidly and is projected to reach a rate of over 200 billion SMS messages sent in 2001. The IdeaWurx PhoneTxt solution is an NMS-based NT Server platform that can process Land Line text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. at a rate of 120 simultaneous messages. It has fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. features and is scalable from 30 to hundreds of ports. It has a reporting system that allows users to view port activities and the progress of calls within the system. With an open architecture that mirrors NMS' standards, PhoneTxt can be integrated to any Fixed line and Mobile networks in just days. Using NMS' AG 4000 voice processing platform, IdeaWurx was able to take advantage of carrier-grade density, unmatched capacity and price/performance leadership. Additionally, NMS' DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive architecture delivers an open development environment, a rich set of features, built-in scalability, and increased processing power - resulting in quicker time to market for its PhoneTxt solution. Specific AG 4000 capabilities include: --Scalability and density -- Density of 120 ports per board reduces hardware costs and provides room for growth. --Support for multiple applications -- Multiple voice and call processing applications are supported on the same hardware, including fax, IP voice, and interactive voice response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ). --Network ubiquity -- The AG 4000 supports interfaces to the public switched telephone network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ) as well as next-generation voice-over-IP networks. "PhoneTxt has pioneered the way for SMS by bridging the gap between wireline and wireless SMS networks, and NMS provided an integral piece in helping us build this innovative solution," said Joel Saul, president of IdeaWurx, Inc. "We knew we could rely on the AG 4000's industry-proven capacity and scalability, as well as its open architecture, to provide high-volume landline text message processing to market quickly and cost-effectively." "Our voice processing platform has been both versatile and the preferred choice by our customers, to build enhanced voice services of all kinds - including voice portals, interactive voice response (IVR), and speech-driven customer service," said Brian Demers, vice president and general manager of the New Network Solutions business unit at NMS Communications. "We are pleased that this platform has been able to also contribute to the advancement of mobile short message service capabilities as well, and look forward to supporting IdeaWurx as they continue to innovate in this exciting area of telecommunications." About IdeaWurx, Inc. Ideawurx is a telecommunication solutions provider that develops and markets a range of customized Computer Telephone (CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. ) solutions for telecommunications companies and private organizations. Solutions are based on open standards that make it possible to develop quick and high performance, fully customized WinNT based client/server telephony systems which are modular, flexible and fault tolerant. Prepaid systems IVR of Smart GSM Buddy, Prepaid and operator less paging of Intext by Pocketbell and land line texting for Globe and PLDT are some of the projects the company has recently completed for Globe Telecom and PLDT. About NMS Communications NMS Communications (NASDAQ: NMSS) strives to lead in the design, development and distribution of hardware and software for the communications industry's most advanced solutions. Using NMS products and services, the world's leading networking and telecommunications suppliers get their solutions to market faster, and at lower costs. NMS supplies the essential technologies for voice Web services and voice portals; eCRM applications; IP media servers for next-generation enhanced services; packet voice and broadband access services, including voice over IP (VoIP), voice over DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary (VoDSL) and voice over wireless local loop (VoWLL); and for guaranteed IP voice, video and data traffic performance. NMS Communications: Technology for Tomorrow's Networks. Visit www.nmscommunications.com for more information. NMS Communications is a trademark of NMS Communications Corporation. Alliance Generation is a registered trademark of NMS Communications Corporation. All other product or corporate references may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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