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VANCOUVER, Canada–
September 6, 2005
 Convedia
Corporation announced today that its market leading family
of Media Servers have been chosen by Alcatel as a key
media processing element for Alcatel’s media resource
product suite. Under the agreement, Alcatel will market
and resell Convedia technology as an integral component
of its media resource products to both carrier and enterprise
customers around the globe.
“We’re very impressed with the multi-service
flexibility, performance, and outstanding voice quality
of Convedia’s media server products,” said
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. And
with their use of open standards–based SIP control
interfaces, we’ve been able to quickly and easily
integrate their technology into our next-generation product
portfolio. We’re looking forward to utilizing Convedia’s
Media Servers in a number of our largest IP telephony
infrastructure opportunities.”
Alcatel’s media resource product suite provides
multimedia user interaction and media delivery including
customized announcements, multimedia streaming, multimedia
conference bridging, DTMF collection, synthesized speech
(text-to-speech), automated speech recognition, and call
routing with detection of operator transfer instructions.
The Alcatel products use a common architecture to provide
the same capabilities to both TDM and Next Generation
IP networks.
“Alcatel is a strong and increasingly important
supplier of complete next-generation IP telephony solutions
for wireline, wireless, and enterprise customers around
the globe,” said Peter Briscoe, President and CEO
of Convedia. “Convedia’s unwavering commitment
to developing the industry’s best IP media servers
makes us the perfect partner for leading telecom equipment
providers like Alcatel. We’re proud to be a part
of Alcatel’s media resource product suite program,
and we’re looking forward to working together with
Alcatel to deliver cost-effective converged IP telephony
solutions around the globe.”
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, voicemail 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.
Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication
carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for
delivery of voice, data and video applications to their
customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position
in fixed and mobile broadband networks; applications and
services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric
broadband world. With sales of EURO 12.3 billion in 2004,
Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more
information, visit www.alcatel.com.
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.
Interprose
PR for Convedia
Becky Obbema
+1-408-778-2024
becky_obbema@interprosepr.com
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