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San Jose, California, April 3, 2003 - VON Spring
2003 - Convedia Corporation, a leading provider of open, standards-based
media processing platforms today announced that it has added support for
card level redundancy to its award winning CMS-6000 Media Server. With
the introduction of this key feature, service providers are able to, for
the first time, deploy IP Media Servers in their network that automatically
detect and recover from hardware failures without impacting calls that
are in progress.
"In our research, service providers, time and again, rate product reliability
as the top manufacturer selection criterion", said Kevin Mitchell, Infonetics
Research’s Directing Analyst - Service Provider Networks and Next
Gen Voice. "Hardware redundancy is an essential element of delivering
reliable products as service providers need to both meet customer SLAs
as well as perform live, in-service software upgrades. Convedia has demonstrated
a commitment to delivering what their customers desire by bringing card
level redundancy to the media server market."
Convedia’s CMS-6000 Media Server is a field hardened platform, which
has been deployed commercially around the world, and offers a rich set
of carrier class features today including:
- 19" rackmountable NEBS Level 3 compliant chassis
- 14 slot modular platform with evergreen design
- Redundant, self-healing packet switched backplane
- 1+1 control card redundancy
- Redundant -48VDC power inputs
- Redundant network interfaces
- Redundant variable speed self monitoring fans
- Redundant Building Integrated Timing Supply
(BITS) interfaces
- Hot swappable components
- Form C dry contacts for connection to CO alarm
systems
- Rich web based embedded element manager
- Full SNMP support for management and provisioning
- In-service software and hardware upgrades
- Ability to fully partition management, signaling
and bearer traffic
- Compact and efficient design—up to 18,000
ports in a 13 RU shelf
- CLEI codes
"Our CMS-6000 Media Server was designed from the
ground up to meet and exceed the reliability requirements of the world’s
most discerning telecommunication service providers," said Grant Henderson,
Convedia’s Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategy. "With
the addition of card level redundancy to a long list of reliability and
redundancy features, Convedia has once again demonstrated real industry
leadership in the development of carrier class IP Media Servers."
Convedia is demonstrating its family of Media Server
products this week at the Pulver Voice on the Net conference in San Jose.
Convedia’s redundancy feature will be commercially available at the
end of April.
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
Convedia Corporation
Grant Henderson
+1 (604) 918-6309
ghenderson@convedia.com
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