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[January 15, 2003]
Convedia IP Media Servers With Native
VoiceXML 2.0 Support
Convedia announced that it has
added native VoiceXML 2.0 support to its family of 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.
"VoiceXML fundamentally changes the landscape for the development
of traditional and speech enabled network-based enhanced services,"
said Grant Henderson, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategy
at Convedia. "By providing a standards based solution for speech
enabled IVR development, VoiceXML frees developers and service providers
from the proprietary systems and programming languages which have stifled
service innovation and artificially inflated costs. Coupling VoiceXML with
Convedia's field hardened media processing platform offers service
providers an ideal marriage of carrier class density and reliability with
a rich internet/web programming model."
Using Convedia's SIP/VoiceXML control interface, application developers
can create a broad collection of enhanced services for 2.5G/3G wireless
and next generation wireline networks including:
- Call Center Applications
- Voicemail and Unified Messaging Solutions
- IP Centrex / Hosted PBX solutions
- Phone based Internet information retrieval systems
- Multimedia conferencing solutions
- Pre-paid and post-paid calling card solutions
- Speech enabled applications
- Class 5 services
- And many others
"Service providers are rallying around SIP as a single signaling
protocol for
all network devices and multimedia services. The eventual wide spread
adoption
of SIP will help drive costs out of their network and kick off an
introductory
wave of killer apps," said Kevin Mitchell, Infonetics Research's
Directing
Analyst - Service Provider Networks and Next Gen Voice. "By offering
a SIP and
VoiceXML control interface to their media servers, Convedia is enabling a
simplified web-based deployment method for innovative IP multimedia
services."
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