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VANCOUVER, Canada – January 5, 2005
 Convedia®
Corporation, the leading supplier of carrier-class IP media processing
platforms, announced today that its IP Media Servers have received a 2004
Product of the Year Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine. As a
repeat winner of this prestigious award, Convedia has once again been
recognized for its ongoing leadership and outstanding product innovation
in next-generation networking technology.
“Convedia Media Servers continue to help define and lead
the carrier-class multi-service IP media server market segment,”
said Rich Tehrani, Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY®
Magazine. “From the pioneering introduction of its CMS-6000 Media
Server back in 2000, Convedia has consistently been viewed as an innovator
and leader in the IP Media Server product category, and is now well positioned
to capitalize on the accelerating investment in next-generation networks
around the globe. We are proud to recognize Convedia’s ongoing commitment
to product excellence with the 2004 Product of the Year Award.”
During 2004, Convedia announced a number of new video media processing
features to its CMS-6000 and CMS-1000 Media Server platforms, including
voice-activated video switching, VoiceXML-based video recording and playback,
quad split and advanced continuous presence displays, as well as video
transcoding and rate matching. These capabilities, exposed through open
standards-based control interfaces, allow Convedia’s application
partners and service provider customers to rapidly develop, integrate,
and deploy innovative multimedia applications including mobile video conferencing,
videomail, video ringback tones, and multi-user mobile online gaming.
These new video capabilities, combined with Convedia’s widely acknowledged
strengths in carrier-class audio media processing, make Convedia Media
Servers the industry’s first and only IP media servers with true
multimedia processing support, while reducing costs for a broad spectrum
of mobile and fixed-line telecommunication service providers. Convedia’s
compelling value proposition has resulted in over 400 media servers being
deployed around the globe in over 50 customer production networks.
“We are honored to once again receive the 2004 Internet Telephony
Product of the Year Award,” said Grant Henderson, Convedia's Executive
Vice President of Marketing and Strategy. “This is the fourth time
TMC's Internet Telephony Magazine has recognized Convedia and our IP Media
Server products. It clearly demonstrates Convedia’s year-over-year
consistency in building and extending our leadership through ongoing product
innovation consistent with the needs and priorities of our service provider
customers and solution development partners.”
Convedia’s award-winning family of carrier-class
IP Media Servers reduce capital and ongoing operational costs by consolidating
the functions of traditional announcement and recording servers, interactive
voice response units (IVR/VRU), audio/video conference bridges, voice
mail servers, and speech platforms onto a single shared media processing
platform. Convedia works closely with leading network equipment providers,
application developers, and system integrators to deliver some of the
industry’s most innovative and cost-effective network and enhanced
service solutions for service provider and large enterprise customers.
Convedia® Corporation is the leading supplier
of next-generation IP media servers that enable telecommunication service
providers to reduce service delivery costs and increase revenues through
new approaches to enhanced services. Convedia’s award-winning family
of products includes the CMS-6000 Media Server, a carrier-class media
server capable of scaling to 18,000 ports per shelf, and the CMS-1000
Media Server, a low-cost, entry-level media server. Convedia is headquartered
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and financed by leading venture
capitalists. For additional information about Convedia, its products,
or the role of media servers in Softswitch, Packet Cable, or 2.5 and 3G
wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com
Celebrating more than 30 years as a leading publisher,
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) publishes Customer Inter@ction
Solutions® and INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazines, Web portal TMCnet.com,
and the online publications SIP™, Speech-World™, VoIP Developer™,
WiFI Telephony™, WiMAX™, Alternative Power™ and BiometriTech™.
TMC® is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site
laboratories, TMC® Labs. TMC® produces INTERNET TELEPHONY®
Conference & EXPO, VoIP Developer Conference™ and Global Call
Center Outsourcing Summit™. TMC offers live and online certification
programs through TMC University. TMCnet.com publishes more than 14 online
newsletters. Visit www.tmcnet.com
for details.
Bill MacRae
+1-203-852-6800 ext 226
bmacrae@tmcnet.com
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