A-IMS won't change softswitch market goals
August 14, 2006
…“The A-IMS activity is good, but fundamentally won't change IMS in the short term. So I don't think it will be affecting anyone's development plans,” said Grant Henderson, co-founder and executive vice president of marketing and strategy at Convedia.

Henderson said that, in principle, A-IMS has a lot of validity because IMS is a work in progress, but he echoes the concern of others that efforts are being duplicated as they are already being addressed within the standards bodies and he said that the split in the wireless market between GSM and CDMA came about in the same way.

“I applaud the activity, provided the work is presented to the standards bodies as contributions,” Henderson said. “But I would be very concerned if these vendors, in fact, tried to create a fractional division away from IMS, because the beauty of IMS and the beauty of GSM is that they can — and should — be a truly global and unifying standard.”…

Convedia Enables Enhancement of
West's VoIP Conferencing Service
June 22, 2006
...Convedia’s success has been boosted by conferencing vendors turning to VoIP technology and, to avoid having to install yet another new system later, they also are ensuring their new platforms are IMS-compliant to accommodate future applications...

Conferencing king InterCall deploys
Convedia media servers
June 21, 2006
Now that West Corporation has helped build its subsidiary, InterCall, into the leading conferencing provider in North America, it will help it upgrade its infrastructure with new media server technology from Convedia...

VoIP: Friend or Foe for Wireless
June 1, 2006
...Grant Henderson, executive vice president of the media server company Convedia, says wireless carriers need to be concerned that their basic voice service is becoming commoditized. Instead of letting VoIP providers use the cellular network, the wireless operators should provide VoIP themselves as one of the sticky services that will keep customers happy and provide the opportunity to gain revenues with other services...

Convedia intros new media server on eXMP
April 4, 2006
In order to address the sophistication required for IP media processing solutions in an IMS architecture, Convedia announced CMS-3000 and CMS-9000 Media Servers based on its eXtended Media Processing technology. Convedia EVP of Marketing and Strategy Grant Henderson told me that the DSPs and processor chipsets address the modularity required for simple IVRs, middle VoiceXML and higher video processing needs, providing better economics and price per port. The new platforms are also fully backwards compatible with existing Convedia media server deployments. The CMS-9000 is a carrier-class media server optimized for large IMS network deployments, and the CMS-3000 Media Server is an entry-level media server for enterprise and smaller IMS network deployments...

Convedia Announces eXtended Media Processing (eXMP), Extends Media Server Line with New Platforms
April 3, 2006
Convedia Announces eXtended Media Processing (eXMP), Extends Media Server Line with New Platforms
Convedia has extended its line of media servers with two new products - the CMS-3000 and CMS-9000 Media Servers, both based on a new eXtended Media Processing (eXMP) technology, which is a modular, portable technology that represents the evolution of Convedia's carrier-class media processing expertise and is designed for a range of media processing needs....

Convedia Expands Media Processing Line
April 3, 2006
Convedia today said it has released a new technology, dubbed eXtended Media Processing, that will form the basis of its future product development. Additionally, the company released the first products powered by the technology, the CMS-9000 and the CMS-3000 media servers, which are scheduled to enter trials late in the second quarter.

The eXMP technology initially will be deployed in servers, but will extend to software media server products and Convedia-manufactured DSP accelerator cards. Convedia plans to introduce optimized blades for ATCA and other blade server architectures in 2007.

“This is really Convedia’s take on building carrier class servers,” said Grant Henderson, executive vice president of marketing and strategy for Convedia. “We made it very versatile in how it can be deployed in our platforms and third-party platforms.”...

Convedia Sets New Standards with IMS-Optimized Media Servers
April 3, 2006
The convergence of the telecommunications industry around the IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) (IMS) architecture has necessitated greater complexity in IP media processing solutions. Fixed, mobile, and cable service providers deploying IMS and pre-IMS services need solutions to reduce service delivery costs and to hasten time to market of new voice, video, and multimedia services.

In addressing these latest requirements, Convedia, a global provider of IP media processing for VoIP and IMS networks, has unveiled the newest members of its hardware family: The CMS-3000 and CMS-9000 Media Servers. The two new products are based on a new, modular hardware platform incorporating the latest DSPs and processor chipsets. They are the first products to be based on Convedia’ s recently-announced eXtended Media Processing (eXMP) technology.

Convedia Goes Enterprise
April 3, 2006
Convedia Corp. says it will make its IP media server software available for integration into the servers, routers, and switches commonly used in enterprise networks...

Grant Henderson, the company’s marketing VP and co-founder, says this disaggregation of Convedia's core software will widen the company's market considerably. “We can now offer our media processing technology to customers regardless of their network type, regardless of the application, regardless of protocol, and independent of platform.”...

VON: Convedia advances customer base
March 16, 2006
Canadian service provider Telus said today that it will use Convedia’s media servers for IP media processing in its IP-One Innovation Internet telephony services for business customers. Convedia will support IP Centrex and VoIP teleconferencing initially, but the deal has the potential for supporting additional services in the future...

Convedia also announced this week a joint effort to advance the standardization of Media Server Markup Language (MSML)...

“It is now the most broadly embraced media server [protocol] in the world. We think the validation by NMS Communications, Intel and at least 30 other companies will give it legs to move to an RFC in the IETF,” said Grant Henderson, co-founder and executive vice president of marketing and strategy for Convedia.

IMS Forum News
February 22, 2006
...I just learned that Convedia will be a founding member of the IMS Forum and moreover Peter Briscoe from Convedia will be named to the board of this leading industry association.

Certainly this is great news for the IMS Forum, Convedia and the IMS market in general!

Convedia Media Servers Honored with Internet Telephony® Magazine 2005 Product of the Year Award
January 18, 2006
…"Convedia Media Servers continue to set a high bar for performance and innovation in IP media processing," said Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Internet Telephony® Magazine. "And with their shared multimedia processing platforms that are accessible by a broad variety of third party applications, Convedia media servers make it easy for carriers to deliver exciting, next-generation applications to any endpoint device in an IP communications network. IMS architecture and fixed mobile convergence are now gaining serious momentum in the industry - concepts that are completely aligned with many of the service architecture principles Convedia pioneered back in 2000 with its CMS-6000 Media Server. With a track record for creating visionary and industry-shaping products, Convedia was a clear choice for our Product of the Year Award."…