NexTone Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Magazine's 2006 Product of the Year Award.Company's Dynamic Policy Management Functionality Recognized for Outstanding Innovation for IP Telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. Market GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- NexTone[R], the leader in intelligent and scalable session management solutions for IP 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. network interconnects, 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 NexTone's Dynamic Policy Management[TM] (DPM (Documents Per Minute) The number of paper documents that can be processed in one minute. ) - part of the company's IntelliConnect System[TM] - a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998[TM]. NexTone's DPM technology allows service providers to automatically control interconnects used by real-time sessions, to optimize service quality, availability, and network capacity. "NexTone's DPM functionality frees operators to tackle more complex issues of IP and IMS service delivery, while ensuring 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. quality. Operators use our DPM to troubleshoot and correct VoIP quality issues such as one-way audio, long post-dial delays, and low average seizure ratios. This capability becomes more important with IMS as service providers support a diverse set of real-time services, each with special quality needs," said Sridhar Ramachandran, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. for NexTone. "Furthermore, NexTone's DPM enables significant network visibility - service providers have the ability to partition, deliver, manage, and charge for different types of services at different quality levels. Customer loyalty is a critical piece of a carrier's business, and DPM lets them offer new IP services at best cost, manage customer identity across services and network boundaries, and exceed customer's quality expectations." NexTone's IntelliConnect System, which intelligently manages IP network interconnects for real-time services and applications, includes a 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. ), a Multiprotocol Session Exchange (MSX MSX - Microsoft Extended ) platform for interconnecting SIP and H.323 networks, and an IP Multimedia Exchange (IMX IMX In My eXperience IMX Interactive Music Exchange (TV show) IMX Integrated Multimedia Exchange IMX Industrywide Mortgage Exchange IMX Intermodal Marketing Extension IMX Inverse Multiplexor ) platform for interconnecting IP and IMS networks. The NexTone Real-time Session Manager (RSM RSM (in Britain) regimental sergeant major ) controls these devices from the network core. "INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to bestow NexTone 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 TELEPHONYmagazine. "NexTone 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 NexTone NexTone[R] develops intelligent session management and interconnect systems for service providers who want to rapidly expand their reach and accelerate VoIP and multimedia revenues. NexTone's IntelliConnect System provides service providers with visibility and intelligence to exchange, optimize, secure and bill for voice and multimedia sessions flowing across diverse IP and IMS network boundaries. More than 550 service providers and enterprises worldwide use NexTone's IntelliConnect System to manage technical complexities, optimize business economics, and remove partnership hurdles. NexTone is a recipient of the Maryland Technology Champions Awards for 2006. The company ranks number one in Deloitte's 2006 Technology Fast 50 Program for Maryland, and is one of the Top 50 companies for Deloitte's 2006 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . NexTone is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, with domestic and international offices worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.nextone.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 A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. 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 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 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, Communications Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical 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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