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“A media server is responsible for the
heavy processing chores that applications, such as interactive voice
and conferencing, require. It takes care of such mundane but crucial
tasks as decoding and compression.” |
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November 12, 2001
“The media server is one of the
few product categories that offers service providers a real value
proposition in dark economic times.”
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October 23, 2001
“In addition to next-generation players, such as Telica and Sonus,
breaking ground with incumbent carriers, several other software and
hardware makers say that dark clouds could soon be lifting. |
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October, 2001
Why has Convedia been successful in securing financing in today’s
tighter market?
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October 9, 2001
“Convedia raises $30 million [Cdn] as other companies also secure
financing.”
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October 1, 2001
Vancouver’s Convedia Corp. said Monday it has secured $30 million
[Cdn] in financing for marketing and development of its voice and
video media computer servers.
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September 26, 2001
“California-based investor to put $30-million [Cdn] into Convedia.” |
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September 26, 2001
“Convedia Corp. of Vancouver is set to announce a $20-million
(U.S.) financing from a group of U.S. and Canadian investors. Convedia,
which makes products that allow voice and video services to be shipped
through Internet Protocol networks, is expected to announce the deal
on Monday. A spokeswoman for Mayfield, a venture capital firm based
in Menlo Park, Calif., said yesterday it is one of the participants
in the financing.” |
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October 1, 2001
“Enhanced services like conferencing and unified messaging
are often heralded as a cash cow for carriers. But as carriers added
these systems to their networks, they noticed that, altough each
system delivered a different application, their insides contained
a lot of the same media-management stuff—a matrix switch, computing
resources, digital signal processors (DSPs), etc. Sooner or later,
it occured to someone to delegate all these functions to one device....”
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October 1, 2001
“Vancouver, British Columbia-based Convedia Corp., a provider
of media servers for IP networks, is expected to announce Monday a
$20 million venture funding round from a group of Canadian and U.S.
investors, The Globe and Mail reported. Among the group is Menlo,
Park, Calif.-based venture firm Mayfield Fund. In September 2000,
Convedia raised $11.25 million in its prior venture financing round
from Celtic House Investments, Alcatel, MDS Capital, Ontario Teachers'
Pension Fund and Altamira.” |
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August, 2001
“Even the most casual reader of this magazine can understand
the importance that carriers of all types place on enhanced services.
Enhanced services represent perhaps the major reason for building
out next-generation infrastructure.”
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“A new class of natively next-gen network
element, called a media server, will power exciting new applications
that weren't even possible before.”
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April 5, 2001
“ IP has redefined the mechanics of application media service
- moving voice, speech, and other forms of signal processing out into
the cloud, into specialized, independently scaling servers, behind
open interfaces. Easier and faster application building is the short-term
goal. A new set of services may be the ultimate payoff.”
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