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VANCOUVER, Canada, and New York, NY, April 2, 2003
- Convedia Corporation, a leading provider of open, standards-based media
processing platforms today announced that its CMS-6000 and CMS-1000 Media
Servers have been deployed by Epana Networks, a New York-based CLEC which
offers integrated voice and data services. Epana has deployed Convedia’s
Media Servers along with next generation enhanced services solutions from
Pactolus Communications Software to deliver advanced SIP based pre-paid
calling card and ANI based phone services. Convedia’s Media Servers
have been commercially operational in Epana’s network since September
2002.
"We have been very impressed by the functionality and reliability of Convedia’s
best of breed media processing servers and have made them a critical component
of Epana’s enhanced voice services platform," said Elie Seidman,
Founder and CEO of Epana Networks. "Convedia’s Media Servers enable
us to use a single platform to meet all of our enhanced service needs,
allowing us to deliver competitive solutions to our customers with up
to a 75% lower cost than other alternatives."
Epana’s prepaid calling card services enable calling card users to
place domestic long distance and international calls to Asia, Africa,
the Middle East, Latin America and other countries at highly competitive
rates.
"Epana is an innovator in the deployment of multi-service,
converged networks and we are very pleased to have been chosen to help
them realize their aggressive goals", said Peter Briscoe, President and
CEO of Convedia. "Service providers like Epana are increasingly recognizing
the economic and competitive advantages that next generation best of breed
technologies such as our media servers offer."
Epana is a facilities-based CLEC, providing a complete turnkey solution
to the prepaid market—one that delivers the most competitive rates
and pricing, the highest quality service, local and 800 access numbers,
and A-to-Z international routes to call over 300 countries around the
world. Epana Networks leverages a private, fiber-based network to provide
prepaid services including prepaid calling cards, private label calling
cards, and ANI-based phone services to wholesale, retail, corporate, and
non-profit customers across the country and around the world. For more
information, visit www.epana.com
or e-mail info@epana.com.
Media Contact:
Ronen Glimer
+1 (212) 931-8738
rglimer@epana.com
Convedia Corporation is a leading supplier of next-generation, softswitch-compliant
media servers that enable telecommunication service providers to reduce
service delivery costs and increase revenues through new approaches to
enhanced services. 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 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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