PRESS RELEASES - 2003

Sylantro Systems and Convedia Partner to Provide Carriers
with New Options for IP Centrex Solutions

CAMPBELL, Calif. and VANCOUVER, Canada, December 1, 2003 — Sylantro Systems, provider of the most widely deployed IP Centrex and hosted communications applications, and Convedia Corporation, the leading provider of carrier-class media processing platforms, today announced completion of interoperability testing of their respective products, along with a partnership to deliver scalable and fully integrated IP Centrex solutions for telecommunication service providers worldwide. The integrated Sylantro/Convedia solution is currently in trials in incumbent service provider networks in both Asia and North America. More...

USA Datanet Deploys Convedia Media Servers in Converged Multi-Service Network

SYRACUSE, NY and WESTBOROUGH, MA, November 20, 2003 — Pactolus Communications
Software Corporation, a leading provider of SIP-based voice services announced today that its RapidFLEX™ Application Server and SIPware™ Services suite has been deployed in USA Datanet’s converged network to provide their customers with high value voice services. The Pactolus RapidFLEX Application Server environment is hosting prepaid and post paid calling card, and conference calling services connected to the extensive USA Datanet VoIP network using the SIP signaling protocol. This network-wide usage of multiple SIP-based services in conjunction with high-density PSTN / IP media gateways represents an industry first in deploying this combination of services in a common IP voice services architecture. As part of this deployment, Pactolus has deployed its software-based RapidFLEX Soft Media Server and the Convedia high-density CMS-6000 IP Media Server products. More...

VANCOUVER, CANADA and CHEPSTOW, UK - November 4, 2003 Newport Networks Limited, an innovative supplier of carrier-class IP session controllers, and Convedia Corporation, the leading provider of carrier-class media processing platforms, today announced a partnership to create session controller solutions for next generation carrier-class IP-based voice and multimedia networks. More...

Sun and Convedia partner to help Telecommunication Service Providers Accelerate Service Creation While Reducing Costs

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – ITU Telecom World 2003 – October 14, 2003 – Sun Microsystems today announced the worldwide availability of the pre-integrated, iForce Solution for Telecommunications Service Delivery. This iForce solution allows carriers and service providers to accelerate service creation and delivery, gain increased revenues with new voice and data services, and drives down the costs and complexity of service introduction. More...

Pactolus and Convedia Complete Interoperability Testing With Veraz Networks To Deliver Enhanced Voice Services For Packet Networks

GENEVA - October 14, 2003 - Veraz Networks, a leading global provider of carrier-grade next-generation telephony solutions, announces the successful completion of interoperability testing with Pactolus Communications Software Corporation, a leading provider of SIP-based enhanced service solutions, and Convedia, the leading provider of carrier-class media processing platforms. The completed testing featured Veraz's open softswitch and media gateway platform along with Pactolus's enhanced voice services and Convedia's IP media servers for wireline and wireless networks. This successful testing demonstrates opportunities available for service providers to generate revenue and gain more subscribers by installing a turnkey next-generation solution network-wide, in a matter of weeks without months of vendor integration. More...

Spectel and Convedia Join Forces to Deliver Flexible IP Conferencing Solutions for Service Providers

BOSTON, MA, USA – September 23, 2003 Spectel, the leading provider of integrated conferencing solutions, and Convedia Corporation, the leading provider of carrier-class media processing platforms, today announced a strategic partnership in which Spectel’s market leading voice and data conferencing applications will be available on Convedia’s award winning media server platforms. Spectel and Convedia are demonstrating interoperability, at the Fall 2003 VON Tradeshow and Expo this week in Boston, MA, USA at Spectel booth number 422. More...

BayPackets to Resell Convedia Media Servers

VANCOUVER, Canada – September 22, 2003 – Convedia Corporation, the leading provider of carrier-class IP media processing platforms, today announced that it has entered into a reseller agreement with BayPackets, Inc., a provider of enhanced voice and data solutions for wireless, wireline and cable operators. Under the terms of the agreement, BayPackets will resell, market and support Convedia’s award winning CMS-6000 and CMS-1000 media servers in conjunction with the BayPackets Agility Network Services Platform (NSP) and Agility Network Applications, a next-generation enhanced services platform and applications suite that can be deployed as a service control point (SCP) or application server in traditional and packet-based telecommunications networks. More...

Ubiquity and Convedia partner to bring joint SIP solutions to wireline and mobile service providers

Ottawa, Canada, August 19, 2003 - Ubiquity, a developer of SIP-based communications software for service providers, and Convedia, a leading supplier of next-generation, IP media servers, demonstrated product interoperability at the SIPit SIP Interoperability Test Event today (www.sipit.net) and announced a commitment to jointly bring SIP-based solutions to the global service provider marketplace. More...

Convedia recognized for Media Server leadership with TMC Labs® Innovation Award

VANCOUVER, Canada, July 14, 2003 - Convedia Corporation, a leading provider of open, standards-based IP Media Servers, was honored recently by Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC©) INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazine with a prestigious TMC Labs® Innovation Award. As a recipient of the award, Convedia was recognized for their demonstrated vision, leadership, and attention to detail. More...

Convedia receives Excellence in Product Innovation Award

VANCOUVER, Canada, June 12, 2003 - Convedia Corporation, a leading provider of open, standards-based IP Media Servers, was honored yesterday at the British Columbia Technology Industries Association (BC TIA) 2003 Awards Gala with an Excellence in Product Innovation Award. More...

Convedia recognized for leadership in enhanced services products with SUPERQuest award at SUPERCOMM 2003

ATLANTA, Georgia., June 4, 2003 - SUPERCOMM 2003 - Convedia Corporation, a leading provider of open, standards-based IP Media Servers, was honored yesterday at SUPERCOMM’s 6th Annual SUPERQuest Awards Ceremony with a prestigious SUPERQuest Most Promising Network Technologies award. Convedia’s Media Servers with Advanced Speech Recognition took top honors in the Application Layer Systems and Technologies category. More...

Convedia helps service providers improve scalability and lower the cost of speech enabled applications

ATLANTA, Georgia., June 3, 2003 - SUPERCOMM 2003 - Convedia Corporation, a leading provider of open, standards-based media processing platforms, today announced the addition of advanced speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) features to its award winning family of IP Media Servers. Convedia’s speech capabilities, based on open protocols such as SIP, VoiceXML, and Media Resource Control Protocol, enable service providers and third party application developers to deliver a wide range of speech enabled services with improved cost efficiencies and greater scale than previously possible. More...

Common Voices and Convedia collaborate to deliver unified messaging and advanced automated attendant solutions for telecommunication service providers

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, and VANCOUVER, Canada, June 3, 2003 - Common Voices LLC, an emerging leader of open standards based enhanced service solutions, and Convedia Corporation, a leading provider of carrier class media processing platforms, today announced the signing of a partnership that will enable wireline, wireless, and cable telecommunication service providers to deploy new applications cost effectively. The Common Voices and Convedia solutions will allow carriers to offer new services using existing equipment. In addition, they will aid carriers in migrating seamlessly to next generation equipment. More...

Convedia delivers industry's first redundant IP Media Servers

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 it’s 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. More...

Epana Networks deploys Convedia Media Servers for SIP-based pre-paid calling card services

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. More...

Hughes Software Systems and Convedia successfully complete product interoperabity testing using SIP and MGCP

SAN JOSE, California, March 31, 2003 - Hughes Software Systems Ltd. (HSS), specialists in convergent network software, and Convedia, a leading provider of open media processing platforms for converged networks, today announced successful completion of interoperability testing between Convedia’s CMS-6000 and CMS-1000 Media Servers, and HSS’ Softswitch Framework and HSS’ SIP Server Framework. More...

Convedia recognized for VoiceXML leadership with Editor’s Choice Award from Communications Convergence Magazine

VANCOUVER, Canada March 28, 2003 - Convedia Corporation today announced that it has received an Editor’s Choice Award from Communication Convergence Magazine. The regular feature profiles leading-edge products designed for the converged communications market. Convedia was selected to receive this award for their innovative and market leading implementation of VoiceXML 2.0 in IP Media Servers. More...

Convedia delivers industry’s first IP Media Servers with native VoiceXML 2.0 support

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. More...