IP Telephony

MONTREAL, Quebec. March 9th, 2006

Eicon Networks Corporation (Eicon), a global leader in providing world class products and technologies for media processing, today announced the availability of the evaluation version of Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP. This release is compatible with SIP (RFC 3261), the de facto industry standard for IP Telephony and with T.38 for real-time fax communication over IP networks. Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP complements Eicons existing Diva Server SoftIP offering for H.323 environments which has been available in the market since mid 2004.

Any software application being either based on industry standard CAPI or Diva Server API (SDK) programming interfaces - will instantaneously be able to work with SIP-based IP Phones and Soft-Phones in an IP Telephony environment. This means Diva Server SoftIP greatly reduces development effort, time-to-market and costs for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and system integrators delivering voice and unified communications software applications and solutions into a market migrating to IP. A single application can either be deployed in TDM environments using Diva Server telephony adapters with Analog, ISDN BRI, ISDN PRI and E1/T1 digital interfaces or in IP Telephony environments using Diva Server SoftIP with support for SIP, H.323, H.450, RTP and T.38 protocols.

The seamless TDM/IP hybrid configurations option, allowing a mix of any Diva Server telephony adapter with Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP in a single system, is crucial for our partners as part of their solutions for IP migration, points out Franz-Josef Eberle, Director Product Management at Eicon Networks. As we expose a single CAPI driver to the application, representing Diva Server telephony adapters and Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP as individual CAPI controllers, there is no change to an existing application that is based on CAPI or the Diva Server API (SDK). A simple line-interconnect command is sufficient to bridge a TDM call into a SIP call and this allows the Diva Server platform to act as PSTN/IP Gateway.

As an industry-first, Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP supports high-speed fax over IP connections with up to 33.6 kbps fax transmission speed based on the latest ITU-T T.38 standard. This feature allows fax and unified messaging applications to fully exploit the advantages of IP communications without having to compromise the fax transmission performance which T.38 initially limited to 14.4 kbps only.

Other key benefits of Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP include a rich implementation of SIP telephony services, such as numbering services, call hold/retrieve, call transfer and message waiting indicator (MWI) to enable a complete telephony solution mirroring critical features previously found in TDM environments. These services are being made possible via support of the latest extended SIP methods e.g. INFO (RFC 2976), SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY (RFC 3265) and REFER (RFC 3515).

Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP supports the current Microsoft (News - Alert) Windows operating systems including Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as well as the latest Linux versions of RedHat, Suse and Fedora distributions. Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP introduces a new flexible software licensing system which is entirely based on software activation keys. This allows licenses to be generated for any number of channels and for different feature sets. - It also allows for 30-day evaluation licenses. Commercial products include:

Item code Description

316-040 Diva Server SoftIP-SIP, Base Product Telephony, 2 channels

316-042 Diva Server SoftIP-SIP, Base Product Fax T.38 (incl. Telephony), 2 channels

M01-040 Diva Server SoftIP-SIP, SW License Telephony, per channel

M02-040 Diva Server SoftIP-SIP, SW License Fax T.38 (incl. Telephony), per channel

M05-040 Diva Server SoftIP-SIP, SW License Fax T.38 upgrade, per channel

Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP for Windows has been tested in the field by more than 25 customers worldwide. Evaluation versions can be obtained via local Eicon Networks representatives. Full commercial availability of the Microsoft Windows version of Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP is scheduled for mid April 2006 with the Linux version of Diva Server SoftIP v2.0-SIP following in the second quarter of 2006.