Radisys Launches Real Time Communications Media Control Interface for Java Platforms

By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor

Radisys Corporation today announced WebConnect JAVA, a real time communications (RTC) adapter for Java programmers. The JSR-309 compliant adapter is compatible with the entire Radisys Media Resource Function (MRF) product family, enabling Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications developers to utilize and control Radisys media processing capabilities for the real time services they are developing.

WebConnect JAVA, a Java-based program designed for installation into a JEE compliant platform, translates JSR309 media processing requests in a Java EE environment into Session Internet Protocol (SIP) and Media Service Markup Language (MSML RFC 5707) XML-based control commands compatible with any Radisys MRF. The highly flexible, adaptable, scalable and optimized solution supports IP multimedia packet processing across both OTT and IMS architectures for a wide range of interactive solutions, including VoLTE, WebRTC, conferencing, and network transcoding.

Until recently, real-time communications have typically been developed and deployed on specialized IMS-based servers using SIP.  The explosion of WebRTC and over-the-top (OTT) services are now changing that model, using web application servers based on traditional communications and programming standards such as Java. WebConnect Java enables real-time communications services in a Java EE environment , leveraging the economic and performance advantages of Radisys's MRF products.

“Adding support for JSR309 was a simple decision as many of the leading web application server platforms on the market today are Java EE based,” said Grant Henderson, vice president of Marketing and Product Management at Radisys. “In addition, the world has far more computer programming professionals with expertise in Java programming than telecommunication service developers with expertise in SIP. Radisys WebConnect is focused on opening up this market by delivering first-class media processing capabilities to the broad community of IT professionals developing real-time communication services using Java platforms be they WebRTC, video or audio based.”

Radisys WebConnect provides access to highly scalable, feature rich, real time audio and video packet processing capabilities for services including audio and video greetings, ring back tones, and announcements; audio and video recording and playback; audio and video conference mixing, up to HD 720p; audio and video transcoding; Voice Quality Enhancements (VQE); Dual Tone Mutli Frequency (DTMF); Multi-Language IVR (>45 languages); audio/video forking and tapping for lawful intercept; and active/standby MRF support.

The Radisys WebConnect interface is designed to integrate with any Radisys MRF platform. Java developers gain the flexibility to deploy as virtualized media processing in a telecom cloud, or with the Radisys MPX-12000 broadband MRF with industry-leading capacities, reliability, and fault-resilience features.

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