Convedia and other SIP Forum members demonstrate interoperable solutions at Supercomm

Convedia, Hotsip, Lucent Technologies, Mitel Networks, Nortel Networks, Pingtel and RADVISION, join forces to lead the way towards real market interoperability and functionality

ATLANTA, GA June 3, 2002 - The SIP Forum (www.sipforum.org) today announced that seven of the leading companies from the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) communications community have joined forces to produce compelling demonstrations that will display interoperability of disparate SIP products in a mobile and fixed network at Supercomm 2002 in Atlanta from June 4-6, 2002.

The seven leading SIP vendors participating at the SIP Forum at Supercomm 2002 include Convedia, Hotsip, Lucent Technologies, Mitel Networks, Nortel Networks, Pingtel and RADVISION.

The installation of the entire demo will be set up in less than a day, illustrating the speed and cost savings that can be expected when implementing a SIP based mobile and fixed converged network. All aspects of the maturing SIP networking technology are linked and demonstrated including desktop phones, proxy, registration, presence servers, platforms for both enterprise and carrier side infrastructure. In addition, a complete suite of standards-compliant tools for developing, testing and validating all types of SIP-based applications, essential for reliable network implementation will also be shown at the show.

The super interoperability demo will effectively represent participants as a standalone domain or operator linking to each other, as would be the case in a real world environment. All phones throughout the booth will be able to make and receive calls from any other phone within and outside the booth linked to the internet/PSTN world through a media gateway.

"SIP has reached a critical deployment stage," said Trefor Davies, Head of Next Generation Networks Strategy at Mitel Networks and Board Member of the SIP Forum. "Most vendors now include SIP in their corporate roadmaps, and real world services by incumbent operators are already being rolled out. At the SIP Forum, Supercomm visitors will be able to see first-hand how personal applications can easily interconnect with WAN-centric systems from various vendors. From both a carrier and an end-user perspective, this is a highly attractive scenario as they will soon no longer be locked into a single supplier or system."

The variety of SIP technologies on display in the SIP Forum booth at Supercomm 2002 include: softswitch-compliant media servers, testing tools, Presence products for mobile and fixed networks, softswitches and gateways, desktop phones and softphones, SIP Proxy, Registration and Applications servers, video and complete business systems all working robustly together. For more information, please visit the SIP Forum located at Booth #12963, Hall C4, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta from June 2-6, 2002.

About SIP and the SIP Forum

The SIP Forum is an international, not for profit trade association whose mission is to promote awareness and provide information about the benefits and capabilities made possible by SIP -Session Initiation Protocol. www.sipforum.org.

Developed by the IETF, the international organization responsible for the web protocol HTTP and the mail protocol SMTP, SIP is the newest generation of communications protocols that ties the telecom and the Internet worlds together. SIP offers fast development timescales, lower costs both up front and ongoing and a wide choice of compatible vendors and products.

On show at the booth #12963, Hall C4 at Supercomm.

Convedia Corporation is a leading supplier of next-generation, softswitch-compliant media servers that enable communication service providers to rapidly deliver innovative and differentiated voice and video services over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. 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 next-generation wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com.

Hotsip - the global leader in the development and delivery of SIP and Presence products: interactive applications and real-time communication services based on SIP. At the Supercomm, Hotsip will be demonstrating Presence and Messaging coupled with Internet Telephony based on SIP using both mobile and fixed devices. www.hotsip.com.

Lucent Technologies headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, and designs and delivers the systems, software and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. Backed by The research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high-growth areas such as broadband and mobile Internet infrastructure; communications software; Web-based enterprise solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network design and consulting services. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its web site at www.lucent.com.

Mitel Networks is a market-leader for voice, video, and data convergence over broadband networks and now brings it's experience to bear towards SIP. With a focus on the user experience, the company delivers advanced communications solutions that are easily customized for individual business needs. Through intuitive desktop appliances and applications, businesses are provided with innovative ways to manage information and resources. Vertical markets benefit from integrated solutions that protect existing investments while enabling new ways to be more cost effective and productive. With over 30 years of expertise, the company is delivering a new, more simplified form of convergence, with clear benefits to the end user. Mitel Networks is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada with offices, partners, and resellers worldwide. For more information please visit www.mitel.com.

The Nortel Networks SIP solution is led by our Interactive Multimedia Server. Nortel Networks will showcase a set of hard and soft clients and will demonstrate interoperability at several levels with other members of the SIP Forum. Nortel Networks can connect its hard and soft clients to other SIP application servers and vice versa. It will also demonstrate connectivity from clients on the SIP Forum booth through a SIP application server in Richardson, TX to the PSTN. Additionally, Nortel Networks will showcase a wide range of multimedia applications, such as click to call, spontaneous video calling, picture caller ID, file sharing, whiteboarding, web page push, call screening, and simultaneous/sequential ringing. www.nortel.com.

Pingtel, a leading champion of SIP technology, exploits the flexibility of SIP, Java and XML with its family of IP phones, xpressa for the desk and instant xpressa for the PC, both of which are delivery platforms for next-generation hosted IP voice services and premise-based IP PBX systems. The Pingtel phones are redefining VoIP communications with their intelligence, exceptional functionality, intuitive user interface and superb audio quality. Exploiting the power of the SIP protocol and Java environment, the Pingtel phones provide a limitless software development platform for Java developers, enterprises and voice service providers who want to create innovative next-generation voice services. www.pingtel.com.

RADVISION's SIP Solutions provide complete, standards-compliant tools for developing, testing and validating all types of SIP-based applications. The solutions include the award-winning SIP Toolkit, the SIP Server Toolkit, the ProLab(TM) SIP Test Manager and SIP Conferencing Server. The SIP Toolkit is a powerful and highly versatile set of development tools designed to address the requirements of production SIP systems ranging from softswitches to compact embedded devices. The SIP Server Toolkit provides a comprehensive framework for developing SIP Server Applications including Proxies, Registrars and Redirect Servers. The ProLab SIP Test Manager is a fully functional and versatile VoIP testing solution capable of performing load, stress, performance, interoperability, media and protocol compliance testing. The SIP Conferencing Server allows a conference of multiple voice and video endpoints. www.radvision.com.


Contacts:
Interprose PR:
Cathy Palmen
+1 (408) 268-8112
cathy_palmen@interprosepr.com

Convedia Contact:
Grant Henderson
+1 (604) 918-6309
ghenderson@convedia.com