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ATLANTA, GA and WOBURN, MA June 3, 2002 - Interoperability
between the products, for both SIP signaling and audio streams, was verified
through an extensive series of interoperability tests, including evaluations
at the Convedia lab and mutual partner labs, customer trials and recent
SIP industry interop events, such as Pulver.com's SIPop. Pingtel and Convedia
will continue to test their products on an ongoing basis to ensure long-term
interoperability.
The
announcement is being made in conjunction with the SuperComm 2002 conference
and exhibition, which is held June 2 to 6, 2002 in Atlanta. During SuperComm,
Pingtel and Convedia will demonstrate interworking of their products in
the SIP Forum booth (#12963). The demonstrations will showcase SIP based
pre-paid calling card, voice conferencing and network announcement server
applications.
“Pingtel xpressa is a clear leader in IP phone deployments today,"
said Grant Henderson, executive vice president of marketing and strategy
and co-founder, Convedia. "We're pleased that Pingtel was able to quickly
verify interoperability, because it's critical for the delivery of next-generation
services that Convedia media servers work with important SIP devices,
such as the Pingtel phone. We look forward to many successful customer
deployments with Pingtel and our mutual partners.”
“Convedia’s
CMS-6000 and CMS-1000 Media Servers are leading examples of the next generation
of high-density SIP-based media processing resources," said Jay Batson,
chief executive officer and co-founder, Pingtel. "We performed extensive
testing with Convedia’s
products because media servers are necessary components for enhanced VoIP
offerings on service provider networks. Our successful testing ensures
that next-generation networks can operate seamlessly, without carriers
having to worry about interoperability between Pingtel phones and Convedia
media servers.”
Pingtel
xpressa, the world's first Java-powered SIP phone, is redefining VoIP
communications with its intelligence, exceptional functionality, intuitive
user interface and superb audio quality. The Pingtel phone provides a
limitless platform for voice service providers, nearly all of which are
preparing to deliver next-generation hosted IP voice services, such as
IP Centrex, unified messaging, instant conferencing, presence and instant
messaging. The key to this innovation in applications and services is
Pingtel xpressa, the only independent IP phone platform allowing third-party
developers to add unique features or applications via an open software
development kit.
Pingtel
instant xpressa, a SIP-based softphone for personal computers, mimics
the award-winning xpressa desk phone within the Microsoft Windows environment.
The instant xpressa softphone is ideal for road warriors and telecommuters
who want to carry an office-phone with all its features, applications
and directories on their laptop.
Pingtel
also offers Pingtel SIPxchange™, the industry's first entirely standards-based,
enterprise-class IP voice system to deliver the benefits and flexibility
of distributed SIP architecture. Pingtel SIPxchange provides all the rich
features of a traditional PBX phone system as well as innovative next-generation
benefits.
Convedia's
CMS-6000 Media Server is the industry’s first carrier-class VoIP
enhanced service media processor and can be used in a broad range of traditional
and emerging enhanced services delivered over cable, wireline and wireless
networks. Designed specifically for next generation packet networks, the
CMS-6000 gives service providers a modular, softswitch compliant platform
for delivering media-intensive, real-time enhanced services such as multimedia
conferencing, speech processing, interactive voice response, unified messaging
and announcement services. Delivering up to 18,000 ports in a single shelf,
Convedia's CMS-6000 offers unparalleled scalability, performance and reliability.
The
other member of Convedia's family of media servers, the recently introduced
CMS-1000 Media Server, scales from 100 to 300 ports and is available in
redundant 120/240 VAC, as well as redundant -48 VDC power options. Support
for Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) and Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) ensures seamless integration of the CMS-1000 with the broad set
of solutions available from Convedia's softswitch and application server
partners. Convedia’s CMS-1000 is based on the same hardware and software
architecture and delivers the same carrier-grade features as Convedia's
award-winning CMS-6000, yet measures only 1.75 inches in height. Convedia’s
CMS-1000 will be available in the third quarter of 2002.
Pingtel®,
the leader in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) technology, fosters innovation
and provides competitive advantages for enterprises and service providers
by employing industry standards to create open architecture IP voice products.
Pingtel SIPxchange™, the world's first standards-based IP voice system,
offers enterprises more productivity, flexibility, affordability and manageability
than traditional IP PBX systems. Pingtel xpressa™ for the desk and
instant xpressa™ for the PC, the world's first Java-smart SIP phones,
are delivery platforms for next-generation premise-based IP PBX systems
and hosted IP voice services. The intelligent Pingtel phones provide a
limitless platform for Java developers, enterprises and voice service
providers who want to create innovative voice services. More information
on Pingtel is available at http://www.pingtel.com.
For publication-ready artwork, including VoIP network diagrams, Pingtel
xpressa photographs and the Pingtel logo, go to http://www.pingtel.com/pressroom.
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 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,
PacketCable or next-generation wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com.
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Pingtel
is a registered trademark and xpressa, instant xpressa, SIPxchange and
the Pingtel logo are trademarks of Pingtel Corp. Convedia is a trademark
of Convedia Corporation. All other products or services referenced may
be trademarks or service marks of their respective companies or organizations.
Contacts:
Interprose PR:
Cathy Palmen
+1 (408) 268-8112
cathy_palmen@interprosepr.com
Convedia Contact:
Grant Henderson
+1 (604) 918-6309
ghenderson@convedia.com
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