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October 24, 2005
Telephony's Dan O'Shea recently talked to Grant Henderson,
Executive VP of Marketing and Strategy of Convedia,
a company that provides media processing functions
within IMS architecture, about the functional implications
of IMS and the future of this potentially industry-altering
concept. |
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October 17, 2005
…IMS helps the wireline market address mobility,
said Grant Henderson, executive vice president of
marketing and strategy and co-founder of Convedia,
a venture-based company in the multi-protocol IP media
server space.
“IMS came out of the 3GPP, which is all about
the evolution of the mobile market, but it is being
embraced by wireline carriers because it brings mobility
into their market. The VoIP networks that are built
today share a lot of common elements with IMS —
they are essentially IMS-ready.”… |
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September, 2005
Media and application server sales are expected to
grow over a factor of four between now and 2008. “The
media server market in 2004 was US$80 million. By
2008, it will be $350 million,” says Lynda Starr,
a senior analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “Although
a small part of the market compared to media gateways
and softswitches, it will become more important as
the market grows. Voice is voice, but media servers
add more value to the service provider and the customer.”
Starr says that Convedia “dominates”
the media server market around the world… |
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September 20, 2005
…XO chose Convedia
as it moved its hosted services platform onto an IP-based
infrastructure. As the service provider sought to
add more services to that platform, it needed greater
throughput and density from media servers. Convedia
filled the bill, said Jeff Bradley, vice president
and general manager of XO Interactive.
…“Using this architecture has a lot
to do with not just traditional IVR but conferencing
(and) pre-paid PIN management,” Bradley said.
“We’re leveraging those applications
because demand is increasing for those.”
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September 19, 2005
“…We have
gone to Convedia to adopt a hardware-based media server
because it gives us a lot of cost benefits, in the
short term, to drive more efficiencies in PIN management,”
said Jeff Bradley, vice president and general manager
of XO Interactive. “But we are also looking
to leverage Convedia to offer conferencing services
for XOC and we are looking at how we might again leverage
Convedia media server architecture to provide hosted
IVR.” XO Interactive supports most of the
major long-distance providers in their sales of
prepaid calling cards at retail outlets, he said.
“We do the point-of-sale, the credit card
activation, the recharging and customers service,”
Bradley explained… |
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September 6, 2005
…According to Mark Peterson, Vice President
of Business Development for Alcatel's wireline communication
activities in North America, "Convedia's media
servers were a natural fit to improve the underlying
media processing capabilities of our media resource
product suite. We're looking forward to utilizing
Convedia's Media Servers in a number of our largest
IP telephony infrastructure opportunities." |
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August 31, 2005
"…We are very pleased to receive this
recognition," company executive vice-president Grant
Henderson said on Wednesday. "This gives us great
visibility within the Canadian scene. Recognizing
that we are excelling globally and selling globally,
although we are headquartered here, I think that
is really important."
"…Last year, more than 95 per cent of
the company's revenues came from outside Canada."
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July 1, 2005
"…Conferencing and collaboration are
becoming much more mainstream, much more integrated
into the enterprise software and embedded into day
in/day out business practices," says Grant
Henderson, co-founder and executive vice president
of Convedia Corp., which builds media servers used
by enterprises and service providers to provide
IP conferencing and other services.
"It's becoming more intuitive and easier to
start, so you can use instant messaging tools or
mobile phones with IM capabilities to launch a conferencing
session, without going through the traditional approach
of having to reserve a bridge…" |
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May 20, 2005
“After a few weeks of hesitation, Alcatel
has named three partners it is taking into the metro
nodes of BT
Group plc's next-generation network, the 21CN.
The companies are B-RAS vendor Redback Networks
Inc. , session border controller supplier Acme Packet,
and media server vendor Convedia Corp…”
"…As
for Convedia, it also has found success with other
major carriers, though this deal will firmly thrust
it into the limelight…" |
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March 2005
"…WebEx
selected a VoIP media server solution from Convedia,
a media server processing platform provider in Vancouver,
BC. The capabilities offered by Convedia have been
live on WebEx
since December, 2004…"
"…While the translation to Return on
Investment is not comprehensive at this point, Farshchi
estimates a savings of 30% cost per port…"
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March 11, 2005
“…Several sources
here say that service providers are indeed spending
big money on VOIP infrastructure now, but wish to
keep it under the covers and have sworn their suppliers
to secrecy. However, some deals were brought to light
during presentations in the [Spring VON 2005] conference
sessions this week, such as AT&T’s relationship
with Canadian media server maker Convedia…” |
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February, 2005
“…with the advent of the IMS (IP multimedia
subsystem) network architecture, a new approach
to enabling convergence is emerging that lets wireless
and wireline carriers use a common IP foundation
to deliver a host of multimedia and traditional
services across any access channel…” |
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February 28, 2005
“IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) are said to have huge
benefits for mobile phone systems. But these technologies
may be accelerating the transformation of the wireline
networking world, say experts…
“Wireline organizations are all referencing
it,” says Garland Sharratt of media server
maker Convedia Corp. “They’re trying
to align their core architecture with IMS, trying
to tie in access into the IMS core. That core is
at the heart of every new service deployed…” |
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February 15, 2005
"The 3GSM World Congress
is in full swing in Cannes, France. Here's a glimpse
at the latest announcements being made at the show…
…The International
Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) has formed
a new working group that will focus on defining the
reference architectures that will provide feature
transparency and seamless mobility across wireline
(DSL, fiber, cable) and wireless (3G, Wi-Fi, WiMAX)
networks…"
Convedia is a charter member of the IPCC's Wireless
Wireline Convergence Working Group. |
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February, 2005
"…How do you marry
what is largely a client-server data-only application,
which is what games are today, make it more interactive,
more engaging? Add voice,” suggests Grant Henderson,
executive vice president of marketing and strategy
for Convedia, a media server vendor. “If you
can taunt [your opponent] it becomes much more engaging.
You need to have VoIP…" |
