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VANCOUVER, Canada – April 3, 2006
 Convedia,
the global leader in IP media processing for VoIP and IMS networks, today
announced two new products – the CMS- 3000™ and CMS-9000™
Media Servers. The CMS-3000 and CMS-9000 Media Servers are based on a
new, modular hardware platform which incorporates the latest DSPs and
processor chipsets, and are the first products to be based on Convedia’s
recently-announced eXtended Media Processing™
(eXMP™) technology. Leveraging the company’s IP media
processing expertise and over five years of field deployments with the
most demanding service providers worldwide, the CMS-3000 and CMS-9000
Media Servers have been designed to provide optimal performance, flexibility,
and economics in media-intensive IMS networks and services.
The convergence of the telecommunications industry around the IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) architecture has dictated a new level of sophistication
for IP media processing solutions. The processing of XML-based scripts
for IVR applications, storing and retrieving multimedia files for messaging
applications, the growing use of low bitrate audio codecs, high complexity
video codecs, and sophisticated VoIP security, including media encryption,
require increasingly powerful and flexible IP media processing platforms.
Convedia has responded to these challenges with new IP media processing
hardware and embedded software technology, while making the new technology
fully backwards compatible with existing Convedia media server deployments.
“Convedia has demonstrated a track record of leadership and innovation
in the IP media processing market, and the introduction of the CMS-3000
and CMS-9000 Media Servers based on their eXMP technology continues that
tradition,” said Stephane Teral, Directing Analyst at Infonetics
Research. “According to our research, Convedia has consistently
maintained their #1 position in the IP media server market, both in terms
of ports shipped and revenues for the past eight quarters. The new products
and technologies they are introducing this week will likely play an important
role in helping them to maintain that position.”
The CMS-9000, Convedia’s new carrier-class IP media server, incorporates
a family of new modular media processing cards. The new CMS-9000 media
processing cards are 100% backwards compatible with existing CMS-6000
deployments, allowing existing customers to benefit from Convedia’s
latest hardware advancements while fully protecting their investment in
CMS-6000 systems. The CMS-3000 Media Server, targeted at enterprise customers
and smaller service providers, incorporates Convedia’s new media
processing technology in a 1RU network appliance packaging. Both products
are backward compatible with Convedia’s management and control interfaces,
and both meet or exceed RoHS environmental standards for telecommunication
equipment. The new products are also designed to accommodate future expansion
cards, allowing modular capacity upgrades based on application requirements.
The CMS-3000 and CMS-9000 Media Servers are the first products to incorporate
Convedia’s new eXtended Media Processing (eXMP)™ technology,
a media processing software architecture that will provide a common foundation
for a growing family of software media server, ATCA®/blade server,
and purpose-built hardware media server products. eXMP technology will
form the technical foundation to extend Convedia’s proven carrier-class
media processing expertise to cover the entire range of media processing
deployment options, from small enterprise customer point solutions running
on third-party platforms such as ATCA- and Linux™-based servers,
up to the largest carrier-class IMS multi-service deployments running
on purpose-built hardware. With the introduction of eXMP technology, Convedia
delivers a “one-stop shop” for IP media processing solutions,
regardless of form-factor/platform, control protocol, market, or application.
“Convedia’s laser-like focus on the IP media server market,
along with the commercial success of our products, has provided our R&D
team with an unparalleled understanding of carrier-class IP media processing
requirements,” noted Grant Henderson, Convedia’s Executive
Vice President of Marketing and Strategy. “Convedia’s new
CMS-3000 and CMS-9000 Media Servers consolidate our expertise into a new
modular product architecture with numerous technical and performance improvements,
resulting in improved capacity at a lower price point for all IP audio
and video media processing applications, while ensuring 100% investment
protection for our existing customers.”
Both the Convedia CMS-9000 and CMS-3000 Media Servers will be on display
in Convedia booth# 1655 at the upcoming CTIA Wireless 2006 event, April
5-7 in Las Vegas, and are scheduled to be available for beta trials with
customers in late Q2 2006, with volume shipments scheduled to begin before
the end of the year.
Convedia is the leading supplier of application-
and platform-independent IP media processing products and technologies
for VoIP and IMS networks. Convedia’s products enable fixed, mobile
and cable service providers deploying IMS and pre-IMS services to reduce
service delivery costs, and more rapidly introduce new innovative voice,
video, and multimedia services. Convedia’s products enable enterprise
customers to deliver new productivity-enhancing applications and services
on their converged enterprise networks while helping to reduce infrastructure
and operating costs. Since pioneering the IP media server market in early
2000, Convedia has deployed its multi-service media processing platforms
and technology with over 175 customers worldwide, including over 25 of
world’s top 50 carriers and numerous Fortune 500 customers. Convedia’s
eXMP technology delivers a common set of IP media processing features,
control and management interfaces, and can be deployed on third-party
Linux-based servers, embedded in third-party proprietary platforms such
as routers, switches, and gateways and deployed on purpose-built, highly-optimized
IP Media Server platforms. 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 and
technologies, or the role of media servers in VoIP and IMS networks visit
www.convedia.com.
Interprose PR for Convedia
Becky Obbema
+1-408-778-2024
becky_obbema@interprosepr.com
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