Newport Networks and Convedia Partner to Deliver Carrier Class Session Controller Solutions
Convedia media servers to provide adjunct media processing
for Newport Networks session controllers
VANCOUVER, CANADA and CHEPSTOW, UK - November 4, 2003 Newport Networks Limited, an innovative supplier of carrier-class IP session controllers, and Convedia Corporation, the leading provider of carrier-class media processing platforms, today announced a partnership to create session controller solutions for next generation carrier-class IP-based voice and multimedia networks.
Service providers eager to offer managed voice and multimedia services over IP have been constrained by a number of technical issues. Managed IP-based communication services require solutions that provide secure connectivity to subscribers behind NAT (Network Address Translation) devices and Firewalls, and to other service providers across IP peering points. Solutions must also offer media transcoding capabilities when network operators pass each other IP media and signalling packets encoded using different standards.
Newport Networks and Convedia have partnered to offer an integrated solution that overcomes network traversal and media transcoding issues. Newport Networks products provide critical session border control for IP signalling and media, while maintaining IP network integrity and security for both IP customer access and carrier peering applications. Convedia media servers provide adjunct media processing capabilities for the transcoding of audio media packets and DTMF signalling. Both products offer carrier class features including high availability, reliability, and performance, while the decomposed solution architecture offers the independent scalability and location of session border controllers and media server ports.
"Carriers need session border control solutions, facing both subscribers and peer carriers, that include critical media functions such as transcoding," said David Vant, VP Marketing, Newport Networks. "Interoperability with Convedia's carrier class media servers allows us to offer large scale session controller solutions to interconnect IP network operators using different media encoding formats".
"Transcoding media and signalling formats is an increasing need as carriers provide services via a diversity of access networks and peer directly with other carriers to deliver end-to-end IP-based services," said Grant Henderson, EVP of Marketing and Strategy, Convedia. "We are pleased to partner with Newport Networks, who share a vision and commitment to carrier class IP communication solutions based on open standards which overcome today's important deployment challenges".
About Newport Networks
Newport Networks' mission is to accelerate the commercial launch of IP telephony and multimedia services and extend their reach to a global market. The company develops the critical solutions that Service Providers need in order to sell managed voice and multimedia services over IP to business and residential customers. The Newport Networks 1460 session controller is a new breed of IP networking equipment that enables Service Providers to deliver increased value to their subscribers and capture new revenue more quickly by combining the best features of traditional circuit switched technology with that of the Internet. It provides the features, scalability, performance and reliability that Service Providers need to deliver successful managed voice and multimedia services over IP.
For further information, please visit www.newport-networks.com.
About Convedia
Convedia Corporation is a leading supplier of next-generation, IP media servers that enable telecommunication service providers to reduce service delivery costs and increase revenues through new approaches to enhanced services. Convedia's award winning family of products includes the CMS-6000 Media Server, a carrier class media server capable of scaling to 18,000 ports per shelf, and the CMS-1000 Media Server, a low-cost, entry-level media server. Convedia is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and financed by leading venture capitalists. For additional information about Convedia, its products or the role of media servers in Softswitch, Packet Cable or 3G wireless architectures, visit www.convedia.com.
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