Natural MicroSystems and Amteva Technologies Announce Technology Partnership in Support of Open Systems.FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1997-- New Partnership To Focus On Network-based Open Telecommunications Solutions Natural MicroSystems, the technology leader in Open Telecommunications, and Amteva Technologies Amteva Technologies was a pioneer in unified messaging using open standards. It was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999. , Inc., a leading provider of computer telephony software and services, today announced a strategic Technology Partnership designed to provide developers with state-of-the-art solutions for their network-based telecom solutions and services. Support for Natural MicroSystems' Alliance Generation and CT Access products on Amteva's enhanced services platform, SP, is currently under development. Natural MicroSystems will lend support to Amteva's development efforts, and will recommend Amteva solutions to current and prospective customers. The partnership enhances Natural MicroSystems' ability to offer open systems solutions to its customers, while expanding Amteva's presence in the market and promoting standards. Amteva's SP is an enhanced services platform designed to support ECTF (Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum, www.ectf.org) An industry association founded in 1996 that provides a clearinghouse for technical standards for voice and data integration in the computer telephony arena. standards specifications. This support will allow the industry to leverage the open systems architecture with more software, technology options and applications. A distributed, object-oriented middleware solution, SP allows the rapid development and deployment of computer telephony applications and services. "We are delighted to welcome Amteva as a new Alliance Technology Partner. Their unique SP middleware offers our customers a way to rapidly create and deploy applications, and their support of the ECTF standards mirrors our commitment to providing our customers with open systems on which to develop their applications," said Bob Schechter, 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. of Natural MicroSystems. "As an Open Telecommunications company, we are always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to contribute to the development and deployment products that will help our customers grow their businesses." Natural MicroSystems' award-winning Alliance Generation (AG) product line is a family of full function digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (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 ) resource cards, combined with an integrated software environment, for the development of systems requiring voice and call processing, speech recognition, fax, switching, and integration of telephone and computer or database systems. Each AG board supports connection to a daughter board, which can then either expand the number of ports, or add support for additional functions such as speech recognition. The Alliance Generation architecture uses DSP resource capabilities efficiently, allowing it to integrate fax algorithms with standard voice and call processing algorithms simultaneously. The integration is seamless, and provides the dynamic availability of call, voice and fax processing resources on demand. Dean Dodrill, President and CEO of Amteva, stated, "The Alliance Generation product family will be a valuable addition to our middleware offering. It delivers some of the best, high-value enabling technology today, and Natural MicroSystems' leadership in developing the ECTF H.100 standards makes it a natural choice for us. We are very excited about becoming an Alliance Technology Partner." About Amteva Technologies Amteva Technologies, Inc., based in Richmond, Virginia, was incorporated in 1995. The company's mission is to revolutionize the telecommunications industry by building the next generation enhanced services platform based on open systems. The company is committed to supporting open standards, and believes that the timely incorporation of open standards into the product line is critical to achieving a leadership position in the hyper-competitive telecommunications market. Amteva actively participates in the Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum (ECTF), and is a member of the Intelligent Network Forum (INF INF interferon. ), the Electronic Messaging Association (EMA (1) (Enterprise Management Architecture) An earlier strategic plan from Digital for integrating network, system and application management. It provided the operating environment for managing a multi-vendor network. ), and the Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ). About Natural MicroSystems Natural MicroSystems (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 ), based in Framingham, Mass., is the technology leader in Open Telecommunications, providing hardware and software technologies for developers of high-value telecommunications solutions. The Company's state-of-the-art technology enables a growing international network of OEMs, VARs, systems integrators and service providers to reduce time to market, leverage development resources, and offer truly global communications products. Natural MicroSystems products are installed in more than 40 countries worldwide. Founded in 1983, Natural MicroSystems developed Watson, the first product to utilize digital signal processor A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
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