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VANCOUVER, Canada January 15, 2003 - Convedia Corporation,
a leading provider of open media processing platforms for converged networks,
today announced that it has added native VoiceXML 2.0 support to its family
of award winning Media Servers. The ability to control Convedia’s
media servers using VoiceXML 2.0 provides telecommunication service providers
and third party application developers with the first truly scalable and
carrier class VoiceXML platform for the creation and delivery of innovative
new voice services.
"VoiceXML fundamentally changes the landscape for the development of traditional
and speech enabled network-based enhanced services," said Grant Henderson,
Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Convedia. "By providing
a standards based solution for speech enabled IVR development, VoiceXML
frees developers and service providers from the proprietary systems and
programming languages which have stifled service innovation and artificially
inflated costs. Coupling VoiceXML with Convedia’s field hardened
media processing platform offers service providers an ideal marriage of
carrier class density and reliability with a rich internet/web programming
model."
Using Convedia’s SIP/VoiceXML control interface, application developers
can create a broad collection of enhanced services for 2.5G/3G wireless
and next generation wireline networks including:
- Call Center Applications
- Voicemail and Unified Messaging Solutions
- IP Centrex / Hosted PBX solutions
- Phone based Internet information retrieval systems
- Multimedia conferencing solutions
- Pre-paid and post-paid calling card solutions
- Speech enabled applications
- Class 5 services
- And many others
"Service providers are rallying around SIP as a
single signaling protocol for all network devices and multimedia services.
The eventual wide spread adoption of SIP will help drive costs out of
their network and kick off an introductory wave of killer apps," said
Kevin Mitchell, Infonetics Research’s Directing Analyst - Service
Provider Networks and Next Gen Voice. "By offering a SIP and VoiceXML
control interface to their media servers, Convedia is enabling a simplified
web-based deployment method for innovative IP multimedia services."
Since joining the VoiceXML Forum in September 2000, Convedia has been
a strong supporter of using VoiceXML as a service definition standard
in next generation voice network infrastructure and operational systems.
Industry-wide adoption of VoiceXML for defining voice services will support
an innovation breakthrough for thousands of application developers familiar
with Internet/web development to rapidly deploy speech-enabled applications
compatible with next generation public voice network infrastructure.
VoiceXML is a language for creating voice-user interfaces, particularly
for telephone services. It supports touchtone (DTMF keypad) and automatic
speech recognition (ASR) for user input, and pre-recorded audio and text-to-speech
synthesis (TTS) for output. VoiceXML is based on the Worldwide Web Consortium’s
(W3C’s) Extensible Markup Language (XML), and leverages the web paradigm
for application development and deployment. The re-usability and standardization
aspects of VoiceXML make it a powerful language, enabling the development
of large and complex IVR applications including speech enabled interactive
services. For additional information about VoiceXML, see www.voicexmlforum.org.
Convedia offers a family of carrier class IP Media Servers which reduce
capital and ongoing operational costs by consolidating the functions of
traditional announcement servers, interactive voice response units (IVR/VRU),
conference bridges, messaging equipment, and speech platforms onto a single
media processing platform. Convedia’s media servers are controlled
by application servers and softswitches through open control protocols
such as SIP/VoiceXML, MGCP and PacketCable NCS.
CMS-6000 Media Server
Scaling up to 18,000 ports in a single shelf, the CMS-6000 is a carrier-class
IP Media Server which can be used in a broad range of traditional and
emerging enhanced services delivered over 3G and wireline networks. Designed
specifically for large carrier networks, the CMS-6000 provides service
providers a modular and open platform for delivering media-intensive,
real-time enhanced services such as voice and video conferencing, traditional
IVR servers, and speech based services including pre-paid calling card
services, voicemail, IP Centrex. Using the latest DSPs and Convedia’s
optimized media and packet processing technologies, the CMS-6000 delivers
high performance enhanced services in an affordable and compact footprint.
CMS-1000 Media Server
Convedia’s CMS-1000 is a feature-rich, high-performance media server
in an affordable, single-rack-unit package. It is ideally suited for service
providers such as independent operating companies (IOCs), providers of
hosted application services and Fortune 500 companies deploying packet-voice
applications. The CMS-1000 scales from 100 to 300 ports and is available
in redundant 120/240 VAC, as well as redundant -48VDC power options.
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 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 3G wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com.
*Convedia is a trademark of
Convedia Corporation
Media Contact:
Grant Henderson
+1 (604) 918-6309
ghenderson@convedia.com
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