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SANTA CLARA, CA, Spring VON 2004, March
30, 2004
 Convedia®
Corporation, the leading provider of IP media processing platforms, today
announced that PointOne Telecommunications has deployed and standardized
on its family of IP Media Servers. PointOne is recognized as one of the
first service providers in the nation to develop and deploy a true, pure
Voice over IP (VoIP) network, designed from the ground up to provide converged
next generation services. With connections to 90 U.S. cities and several
international markets, PointOne’s network currently processes more
than half a billion calls per month. Convedia’s Media Servers are
at the heart of PointOne’s SIP-based Prepaid Calling Card Service
and provide a comprehensive media processing platform for PointOne’s
other IP Telephony enhanced services.
“Innovative and aggressive companies like PointOne
understand the strategic importance of providing a comprehensive suite
of enhanced services to their customers. Service providers are increasingly
utilizing IP media servers as an integral network element to facilitate
the delivery of enhanced applications,” said David Fraley, principal
analyst in Gartner’s Network Infrastructure group. “Multi-service
IP media servers like those from Convedia are enabling a broad range of
enhanced services and applications which are integral to the success of
the next generation network.”
Convedia media servers consolidate the functions of traditional announcement
servers, interactive voice response (IVR/VRU) units, conference bridges,
messaging platforms and speech platforms into a multi-service, open standards
compliant solution for network and enhanced services media processing.
While the product provides compelling CAPEX and OPEX savings in single
service deployments, the economics and ROI of a Convedia solution become
even stronger as additional services are deployed and leverage previously
installed media server infrastructure.
“PointOne has deployed a world-class converged
network that is the foundation for many exciting SIP-based applications
and services,” said Sam Shiffman, executive vice president at PointOne.
“Convedia’s broad and proven eco-system of partners, and the
breadth of services that they support, was extremely appealing to PointOne.
These advantages, combined with their unparalleled scalability and reliability
made their media server platform the clear winner for PointOne.”
“By combining their advanced VoIP network and Convedia’s Media
Servers, PointOne is ideally positioned to quickly build new services
and solutions for their customers that are highly differentiated and competitively
priced,”
said Peter Briscoe, president and CEO of Convedia. “We are pleased
to partner closely with PointOne, providing an integral component of their
communications infrastructure.”
Established in April 1998, PointOne is the largest VoIP network
in North America utilizing all next generation technology with over 75%
on-net coverage in the U.S., designed from the ground up to provide 100%
IP-based applications and services. Utilizing the industry's leading IP
technologies, along with its proprietary patented applications and processes;
PointOne offers high-quality, QoS IP communication services. Ranked #1
vendor in performance and reliability by the largest carriers in the U.S.;
PointOne is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas. For
more information, contact us at +1.512.735.1200, or visit us at www.pointone.com.
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.
Jennifer Abelson
+1-212-579-5743
jennifer@abelsongroup.com
Steve Braasch
+1-512-735-1200
sbraasch@pointone.com
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