VocalData and Convedia Join Forces to Deliver Scalable IP Centrex Solutions

RICHARDSON, Texas and VANCOUVER, Canada – January 14, 2004

VocalData Inc., a leading application developer of hosted IP telephony solutions, and Convedia® Corporation, the leading provider of carrier-class media processing platforms, have announced the successful completion of interoperability testing between VocalData’s application server and Convedia’s IP media servers. The certified interoperability of these products facilitates scalable deployment of Hosted PBX and IP Centrex applications, while reducing total cost of ownership for service provider customers.

VocalData’s flagship product is a feature-rich, standards-based voice application server that enables service providers to supply business and residential users with IP Centrex, hosted PBX, VoIP VPN, and enhanced services such as conferencing and unified messaging. By tapping into the hosted PBX capabilities delivered by a service provider using the VocalData platform, businesses can avoid the up-front expense of a PBX and realize a 25% reduction in their communications costs.

Convedia’s media servers are purpose-built to support carrier-class media processing for enhanced services and applications. VocalData application server, using an open standards-based SIP interface, can now seamlessly control Convedia’s media processing features—including IVR, advanced audio bridging, media transcoding, and audio play/record. The resulting integrated solution offers Hosted PBX and IP Centrex service providers an industry-leading call control and feature set, with the media processing reliability and scalability essential for large service deployments.

“The IP Centrex market is quickly moving from the pilot phase into full-service deployments, and it is essential to ensure that all aspects of VocalData’s offering scale to meet our customers needs,” said Mark Whittier, vice president, VocalData. “We evaluated all leading media server platforms over the past year in our search for leading solutions and partners. VocalData considers Convedia a market leader not only because of their excellent technology and rock solid reliability but also for their superb technical support. Our interoperability with Convedia’s media servers ensures that our service provider customers can reliably scale all aspects of their IP Centrex deployments.”

“Convedia has become the clear IP media server choice for discerning application developers and service providers,” said Grant Henderson, EVP of Marketing and Strategy, Convedia. “We are very pleased that VocalData has certified our media servers for deployment with their industry-leading and feature rich IP Centrex solution offerings. Our product interoperability ensures a fully integrated enhanced voice services platform for large IP Centrex deployments”.

About VocalData
VocalData, Inc. provides an integrated suite of hosted IP telephony applications that enable service providers to reliably and cost-effectively deliver voice-over-IP solutions. VocalData’s award-winning application server is a comprehensive set of hosted PBX and IP Centrex applications that delivers higher value telephony services to business customers, while reducing the costs associated with traditional PBX telephony systems. Through VocalData’s broad customer and partner base, there are more than 61,500 enhanced IP telephony lines deployed today. VocalData was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX. For more information, visit www.vocaldata.com

About Convedia
Convedia® Corporation is the leading supplier of next-generation, IP 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 2.5G and 3G wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com.

For more information, contact:

VocalData Inc.
Justin Siefert
Calysto Communications
404-266-2060 x20
jsiefert@calysto.com

Convedia Corporation
Ray Adensamer
+1-604-918-6318
radensamer@convedia.com