RADVISION's IP Phone Toolkit Wins INTERNET TELEPHONY 2003 Product of the Year Award.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers GLEN ROCK Glen Rock, borough (1990 pop. 10,883), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential suburb of New York City; settled c.1710, inc. 1896. George Washington's army used the area for camping grounds during the Revolutionary War. , N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2004 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. Chooses Revolutionary Multiprotocol IP Phones Development Toolkit For Coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. Honor RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN RVSN Radvision (stock symbol) RVSN Recorded Volume Serial Number (Veritas) RVSN Raketnye Voiska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya (Russian strategic rocket forces) ) today announced that its IP Phone Toolkit, the newest member of the company's V2oIP(R) ENSEMBLE(SM) suite of development solutions for voice and video over IP and 3G wireless products and applications, has been named by INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) magazine as a Product of the Year for 2003. Leveraging RADVISION's extensive experience in VoIP protocols and communication applications, this toolkit is unique in the industry for providing chipset vendors and IP phone developers with all the necessary software components to build powerful IP phone solutions. RADVISION's IP Phone Toolkit is available in multiple VoIP protocols including: SIP, H.323, and Megaco/H.248, and provides a rich set of features and services that enable Customer Premises Equipment See CPE. (CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment ) manufacturers to implement fully-functional IP phone applications with minimal effort. The product supports advanced business phone services such as conferencing, transfer, hold, and caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. , in addition to basic phone support. "RADVISION's driving goal has been to provide solution developers with a software toolkit that delivers the core functionality and ease of use needed to deliver a differentiated, feature-rich enterprise VoIP solution," said Boaz Raviv, General Manager of RADVISION's Technology Business Unit. "RADVISION's new IP Phone Toolkit meets the stringent technical demands of delivering advanced 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. features in a solution that supports a wide range of chipsets, media processing See media control. , and hardware implementations and INTERNET TELEPHONY's designation of it as a Product of the Year reinforces our belief that this is a revolutionary product." "Our Product of the Year award recognizes outstanding technologies and approaches to delivering and enabling next generation voice and video for service providers and enterprises," said Greg Galitzine, editorial director of INTERNET TELEPHONY. "There were many strong contenders this year for such an award but RADVISION's IP Phone Toolkit was obviously one of those technologies that we see as having the potential to spur the development of advanced, feature-rich IP-based communications solutions for the enterprise." About RADVISION's IP Phone Toolkit A complete IP phone solution is achieved by integrating the RADVISION IP Phone Toolkit with 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 Services (voice compression/decompression, echo cancellation The elimination of an echo in a two-way voice transmission. Echo is created in the telephone company's central office switch when two-wire lines from the customer are converted to four-wire lines for backbone trunks. , VAD (Value Added Dealer) Same as VAR. , etc) and Telephony Hardware Services (hook state, key state, handset, etc), both of which would be provided by the developer or a third-party. RADVISION has designed its IP Phone Toolkit to be easily portable across a variety of IP Phone chipsets. Additionally, RADVISION has also worked closely with leading silicon vendors to help provide pre-integrated solutions for their chipset services. Applications written with the RADVISION IP Phone Toolkit are insulated from the underlying protocols and call/media control mechanisms. As such, developers can use the RADVISION IP Phone Toolkit to create products for SIP, H.323, and Megaco/H.248 networks using the same application. RADVISION's advanced IP Phone Toolkit provides: -- support for a wide range of System-On-Chip (SoC), media processing and board-level designs; -- complete IP Phone functionality including basic dial services, caller ID, call hold, and advanced services such as transfer and conference; -- proven, standards-based VoIP call and media control for various voice over IP standards, including H.323, SIP, and Megaco/H.248; -- customizable Man-Machine Interfaces to allow phone vendors' developers and designers to precisely define their own look and feel; -- support for analog lines empowering residential gateway solutions that support IP telephony using existing phones; and -- support for a wide range of industry standard embedded and native general-purpose operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Available as Stand Alone Product or Part of RADVISION Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Offering Like all RADVISION developer solutions, the IP Phone Toolkit is available as a stand along developer solution or in conjunction with RADVISION's ENSEMBLE(TM) Duet(TM) professional services offering. ENSEMBLE Duet Professional Services assists partners and customers in bringing their innovative products to market on time. RADVISION experts are available to its professional services customers to respond to their development needs throughout the product design and development cycle, providing RADVISION protocol and system experts to aid in specifying, designing and delivering products that integrate RADVISION's core development solutions including SIP, H.323, MEGACO/H.248, MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol and 3G-324M technologies. ENSEMBLE Duet Professional Services delivers the following services: -- initial consultation to help specify and design products -- implementation services to augment the customers' own engineering efforts -- delivery of complete turn-key solutions About Internet Telephony Magazine The convergence of voice, video, fax, and data has revolutionized the world of telecommunications. Internet telephony has been proven to drastically reduce long-distance costs and continues to provide unprecedented opportunities for service providers, resellers, developers, and end users alike. Internet Telephony is the only magazine that focuses on providing the information that will help you take advantage of this exciting technology. Launched as a quarterly publication in January 1998, Internet Telephony(R) magazine has been published monthly since October 1998. Internet Telephony(R) provides readers with the best information necessary to learn about and purchase the equipment, software, and services they need to take advantage of Internet telephony. About 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 Since 1972, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(TM)) has produced industry-leading trade magazines and events focused on technology and telecommunications. TMC(TM) publishes two magazines: Customer Inter@ction Solutions(TM) and Internet Telephony, and two online publications, Planet PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). (TM) Magazine and BiometriTech(TM) Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs(TM), and provide factual and unbiased product reviews. TMC also produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & Expo, Planet PDA(R): The Enterprise PDA Event and BiometriTech Conference & Expo. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com. About RADVISION RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN) is the industry's leading provider of high quality, scalable and easy-to-use products and technologies for videoconferencing, video telephony, and the development of converged voice, video and data over IP and 3G networks. For more information please visit our website at www.radvision.com. All trademarks are properties of their respective owners. |
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