|
|
BOSTON, MA –
October 20, 2004
 VocalData,
a Tekelec company (NASDAQ: TKLC) and market leader in hosted IP telephony
solutions, today announced the availability of its new session initiation
protocol (SIP)-based conferencing server, enabling operators of all sizes
and large enterprises to scale in processing power and port capacity to
meet their current and future conferencing resource requirements at a
competitive price per port.
VocalData has entered into a distribution agreement to resell Convedia’s
media servers as an integral part of the SIP-based conferencing solution.
The new solution, which has already been deployed by several operators,
is comprised of Convedia’s CMS-1000 and CMS-6000 media servers combined
with Version 5.0 of VocalData’s application server.
“Our new SIP-based conferencing server provides a cost-effective
and scalable platform for deploying the audio conferencing-on-demand and
meet-me conferencing solutions our customers demand,” said Michael
Camp, general manager at VocalData. “Our partnership with Convedia
provides more powerful features to our application server and further
reinforces our strong commitment to SIP for the integration of technology
partner products.”
Convedia’s media servers reduce capital and operational costs by
consolidating the functions of traditional announcement and recording
servers, interactive voice response units, audio/video conference bridges,
voice mail servers and speech platforms into a single shared media processing
platform. The entry-level CMS-1000 Media Server delivers up to 300 concurrent
media processing ports for smaller service providers, large enterprise
and network edge deployments. The carrier-class CMS-6000 Media Server
is capable of scaling up to 18,000 media processing ports for large, next
generation network deployments.
“Our strategic relationship with VocalData enables service providers
to deliver high-value, cost-effective and easy-to-use telephony services
to business and residential customers,” said Grant Henderson, Convedia’s
co-founder and executive vice president of marketing and strategy. “VocalData’s
hosted IP telephony solutions are an excellent complement to Convedia’s
media servers and help increase demand for our family of award-winning
products.”
Please visit VocalData’s booth, #424, during
the Fall Voice on the Net (VON) conference in Boston to find out more
information about VocalData’s SIP-based conferencing server. Please
visit Convedia’s booth, #919, to learn more about its portfolio
of media servers.
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 a privately held company headquartered
in Vancouver, Canada, with regional offices in Asia and the United States.
For additional information about Convedia, its products, or the role of
media servers in Softswitch, Packet Cable, or 2.5 and 3G wireless architectures,
visit www.convedia.com.
Tekelec is a leading developer of now and next-generation switching and
signaling telecommunications solutions, network performance management
technology, and value-added applications. Tekelec's innovative solutions
are widely deployed in traditional and next-generation wireline and wireless
networks and contact centers worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located
in Calabasas, Calif., with research and development facilities and sales
offices throughout the world.
VocalData, a Tekelec company, 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 an open solution that allows service
providers to deliver higher value telephony services to business and residential
customers. Through its more than 50 customers and broad partner base,
VocalData supports more than 225,000 deployed enhanced IP telephony lines
today. For more information, please visit www.tekelec.com.
Jennifer Abelson
+1-631-462-0003
jennifer@abelsongroup.com
Joni K. Brooks
Manager, Public Relations
Mobile: (919) 349-1003
Office: (919) 461-1065
joni.brooks@tekelec.com
|
|
