tekVizion Announces Opening of Centerfield Solution Center and Executive Briefing Center at its Headquarters in Telecom Corridor

tekVizion PVS, Inc. today announced the official opening of its Centerfield Solution Center and Executive Briefing Center in the company's corporate headquarters in Richardson, Texas. Together, the facilities are designed to demonstrate examples of real-world convergent solutions that are designed specifically for service providers. The solutions include both pre-integrated and custom legacy and next generation products and technologies from a broad cross-section of established and start-up vendors.

The tekVizion Centerfield Solution Center is comprised of legacy, next generation, and converged products and applications. At the heart of the Centerfield Solution Center is a working lab which is equipped with a wide range of legacy and next generation equipment including off-the-shelf and custom test tools, legacy circuit switches, media gateways, media servers, signaling gateways, Voice over IP (VoIP) and legacy PBXs, softswitches, applications servers and integrated service delivery platforms. With full connectivity to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and IP networks, the lab can demonstrate how solutions would operate in real-world environments.

The EBC provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art meeting and demonstration environment. It incorporates professional equipment and technology in its four demonstration pods, including plasma screens, mobile computers, VoIP phones, and wireless handsets. This equipment is critical in the creation of realistic scenarios designed to demonstrate the use and value of different solutions. The EBC enables tekVizion to simulate application environments like corporate or home offices, travel scenarios, and social settings using a combination of the scenario demonstration pods and high-end audio-visual technology.

The ability to see real-world solutions offers many advantages to customers and partners such as:

-- Giving network operators, service providers and other interested parties a single place to see multiple real-world solutions;

-- Creating an environment for the inspiration of new services and customized applications;

-- Fostering communication with product vendors on new product requirements and improvements;

-- Accelerating development of service roadmaps and accompanying business cases; and

-- Providing a turn-key venue for product prototyping and demonstrations.

"tekVizion's center is opening at an opportune time: standards are maturing, the economy is strengthening, and service providers are demanding new service solutions to drive revenue growth. A facility run by an experienced, unbiased, trusted partner allows service providers, ISVs and equipment vendors to predict and demonstrate how these new solutions will perform in a real-world environment, while leveraging the cost advantages of a shared facility," said Rob Rich, executive vice president, The Yankee Group, a leading international consultancy.

tekVizion takes a unique approach to addressing the growing need for experienced, unbiased professional services that can provide the consulting, testing and integration expertise required to build carrier-class solutions which merge legacy and emerging technologies. The company's expertise reflects unparalleled experience in development of multi-vendor solutions, as well as extensive experience with interoperability testing and alliances. With the Centerfield Solution Center, tekVizion is expanding on these past experiences and leveraging the company's product-agnostic approach to help service providers understand how technical solutions translate into actual services meeting their business requirements. Further, tekVizion's consulting services group also works with customers to build the actual business cases required to evaluate and justify new service deployments.

"While the growing adoption of VoIP technologies has created a tremendous opportunity for the creation of innovative new IP-based services, today's reality is that service providers still receive the vast majority of their revenues from traditional voice services based on legacy technologies. tekVizion has a unique body of expertise that comprises both next generation, packet-based technologies and solutions as well as traditional, legacy ones," said Terri Griffin, president of tekVizion. "With the EBC and the Solutions Center, we can now demonstrate new, hybrid solutions in real-world deployment scenarios, which is the best way to help service providers envision how such solutions can enhance their bottom lines."

Griffin added that tekVizion's success over the past two years has given the company the financial resources and expertise required to develop these facilities so that they can share them with customers and partners.

Both facilities were officially open as of January 19, 2004. The Centerfield Solution Center has been operational since 2003. Pictures and more information on the centers can be found on tekVizion's website (www.tekvizion.com.)

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