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Broadvox'TM' Selects Mediatrix'R' 2102 Residential VoIP Access Device to Drive Home-Based VoIP Telephony
CLEVELAND & MONTREAL --(Business Wire)-- July 12, 2004 --
Mediatrix' Breakthrough Technology Enables Home Phones, Faxes, And PC or Router to Share Single Broadband Connection
Broadvox(TM), a leading VoIP telephone services provider, and Mediatrix Telecom, Inc., a leader in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) access technology, today announced that Broadvox has chosen the Mediatrix 2102 Residential VoIP Access Device as the core enabling platform for its Internet-based residential telephony services. The Mediatrix 2102, a breakthrough VoIP gateway, will enable Broadvox subscribers to place telephone calls, send/receive faxes, and simultaneously surf the Internet on one or more PCs, using a single residential broadband connection.
Unveiled in March of this year, the Mediatrix 2102 Residential VoIP Access Device simplifies residential IP telephony for service providers and customers. Its patent-pending Transparent Address Sharing (TAS) technology, which enables multiple devices to have access to the Internet simultaneously, is at the heart of the plug and play, built-in design of this device.
"Mediatrix is a respected name in the VoIP gateway arena. As a leader in enterprise VoIP gateways, I knew that the Mediatrix 2102 would be a reliable, feature-rich choice for our residential deployment," said Jeff Williams, Chief Information Officer for Broadvox. "In addition to outstanding quality and support, Mediatrix will enable Broadvox to present several industry firsts in a residential offering-Public IP pass-through, T.38 fax support, dual port compressed CODEC, and a superior quality-of-service offering."
"This distribution agreement with Broadvox, a leading provider of a complete range of telecommunications services, for the major deployment of the Mediatrix 2102, represents a key milestone in our penetration strategy of the residential market", said Marc Shapiro, Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Mediatrix. "This strategic relationship underlines our continuous commitment to providing high value, high quality and cost-effective VoIP products to our customers. The residential VoIP market needed a cost-effective and reliable platform that would allow more and more residential customers to benefit from low-rate phone services by migrating to IP telephony, while allowing service providers to also increase their revenues."
The Mediatrix 2102 is quickly proving to be an ideal choice for service providers who wish to immediately deploy high-value IP telephony services because the unit requires little end-user intervention. In addition to its TAS technology, the device can automatically download its encrypted configuration files to provide secure auto-provisioning and can be remotely managed through industry standards. It also features built-in QoS (Quality of Service) to ensure superior quality voice transmission.
With the deployment of the Mediatrix 2102, Broadvox is able to implement an Integrated Access Device (IAD) built to its own specifications, enabling two simultaneous calls using compressed voice. According to Williams, the solution will result in fewer dropped calls for Broadvox users.
"Unlike many other vendors' Integrated Access Devices, the Mediatrix 2102 allows two simultaneous calls using G.729 - a compressed standard that consumes approximately 30 kbps of bandwidth," Williams states. "With other vendors' units, more bandwidth is required because the first call uses a compressed standard whereas the second call uses a non-compressed standard. This increased bandwidth requirement can result in clipping, echo and dropped calls during periods of high congestion. Mediatrix enables Broadvox to ensure that two simultaneous calls can occur with very high quality."
In his comments on Broadvox' choice of Mediatrix, Williams noted that both companies are strong proponents of telephony open standards. "Out of many endpoints we've worked with, we found Mediatrix' implementation of Session Initiation Protocol very stable and compatible with our internal infrastructure," he said.
About Mediatrix Products
The Mediatrix product line is targeted at telecom equipment vendors developing next-generation VoIP network solutions as well as service providers (ILEC, CLEC, MSO, ASP, ISP) and enterprises deploying VoIP solutions. Mediatrix access devices and gateways are standards based and designed to meet carrier-grade requirements. The products are feature-rich with security and QoS capabilities and interoperate with H.323, SIP, MGCP and NCS protocols and also interface with proprietary features of its strategic partners' communication management systems including softswitches, gatekeepers, proxy servers and call agents.
About Mediatrix Telecom, Inc.
Mediatrix develops and markets advanced VoIP access devices, gateways, routers and value-added software enhancements for the enterprise, SOHO, and residential markets. Its products provide an ideal migration path for end users wishing to protect their current CPE investment (analog/digital phones, fax machines, PBX and Key Systems) while migrating to a converged IP network. Mediatrix products and solutions are widely interoperable and have received commercial endorsement from some of the world's leading manufacturers of telecommunications equipment as well as from large telecommunication carriers. Mediatrix is a wholly owned entity of Media5 Corporation, a high technology holding company based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Media5 Corporation also owns M5T, a software provider focused on delivering the latest in SIP software technologies to companies developing applications for real-time multimedia communications over IP. Mediatrix has corporate offices in Sherbrooke and Montreal, Canada and several regional offices in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia. For more information, please visit www.mediatrix.com.
About Broadvox
Broadvox is a next generation service provider bringing the best-of-breed IP telephony solutions to its customers. The company operates a carrier-grade VoIP network in the top 92 North American markets. Over 1.5 billion minutes were originated and terminated on the Broadvox network in 2003 alone. Broadvox offers IP telephone services to residential and small office/home office customers, and hosted IP telephone solutions for medium-sized businesses. In addition, Broadvox provides wholesale carrier services to facilities-based carriers, ISPs, voice ASPs, PC-to-phone service providers, international carriers, IXCs and CLECs. Its extensive North American network infrastructure and its international partnerships enable Broadvox to provide globally ubiquitous hosted communication services to its customers. Broadvox has corporate offices in Cleveland, Ohio and several regional offices in the United States. For more information about Broadvox, visit www.broadvox.net.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the industry, changes in demand for products, the timing and cancellation of orders and other risks.
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