Convedia Becomes Premier Tenant in tekVizion Labs

Leading Vendor Makes Media Server Available for Interoperability Testing

Chicago, IL – SUPERCOMM 2005 – June 6, 2005

Convedia Corporation and tekVizion™ PVS, Inc., the new standard for systems integration, announced today that Convedia has signed an agreement to become a Premier Tenant in tekVizion Labs™, the first lab of its kind offering third-party certification and testing for Voice over IP (VoIP) products and services.

“Premier Tenants” are vendors that provide their products to tekVizion Labs to allow them to be used in certification testing performed by tekVizion Labs and/or to make them available to other vendors and service providers for remote testing. Premier Tenant status significantly enhances the vendor’s test capacity by turning tekVizion Labs into an extension of the vendor’s own test facilities.

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.

tekVizion Labs offers several types of testing services involving both remote and on-site testing at tekVizion Labs. Remote testing can be used for pre-certification or ad-hoc test scenarios, whereas formal certification is conducted on-site at tekVizion Labs by tekVizion engineers. Certification can be provided between two products or in a multi-product solution. All lab services are available to both vendors and service providers.

“tekVizion Labs is fulfilling a vital need in the industry by offering a facility for service providers, as well as other vendors, to obtain independent, third-party validation of interoperability and product performance”, said Grant Henderson, executive vice president of marketing and strategy at Convedia Corporation. “tekVizion and Convedia share a common vision and commitment to help application developers and service providers leverage the power of VOIP to drive costs out of their networks and deploy new productivity enhancing, highly differentiated services to their customers.

“As a leader in the market for next-generation IP media servers, Convedia is an important addition to the labs,” said Terri Griffin, tekVizion’s chief operating officer. “We are pleased to have them as a Premier Tenant, and offer Convedia media servers as a versatile media processing resource available to tekVizion Lab customers”.

Convedia and tekVizion also announced today that the companies will be demonstrating next-generation applications which were developed by tekVizion and utilize Convedia’s media server. The demonstrations will take place in Convedia’s booth #64005.

Potential customers of tekVizion Labs can request testing via the tekVizion Labs website (www.tekVizionlabs.com) or by contacting the program director, Jerry Mistrot. The tekVizion Labs website allows anyone to register to be notified when new Premier Tenants join the lab, when products are certified, and when new services are offered by the Labs.

About Convedia
Convedia is the leading supplier of VOIP media servers, which enable telecommunication service providers to reduce service delivery costs and increase revenues through new approaches to enhanced services. Since pioneering the IP media server market in early 2000, Convedia has deployed its multi-service media processing platforms and technology with over 100 customers worldwide including over 25 of world’s top 50 carriers. 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 a privately held company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with regional offices in Asia, the United States, and Europe. For additional information about Convedia, its products, or the role of media servers in Softswitch, Packet Cable, or 2.5 and 3G/IMS wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com.

About tekVizion PVS, Inc.
tekVizion (www.tekvizion.com) is setting the new standard for systems integration in the telecommunications industry. tekVizion Labs™ is the first interoperability certification lab of its kind, and tekVizion’s suite of FastForwardSM services helps service providers achieve a smooth transition to packet-voice networks, speeding delivery of integrated services. tekVizion leverages its real-world, multi-vendor integration and test experience and proven processes to provide leading vendors, carriers, and enhanced service providers with solutions that meld legacy and next-generation resources. tekVizion’s headquarters, along with a state-of-the-art test lab and Executive Briefing Center, is located in the Telecom Corridor® in Richardson, Texas.


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