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Brooktrout Technology
and tekVizion™ Announce Strategic
Partnership
and Premier
Tenant Status
tekVizion to Perform Interoperability Tests
for Advanced IMS applications with
Brooktrout’s SnowShore
IP Media Server
NEEDHAM, Mass., Dec. 14, 2005—Brooktrout Technology, a
leading supplier of media processing and call control products,
and tekVizion™ PVS, Inc., the new standard for systems
integration, announced today that Brooktrout has become a Premier
Tenant in tekVizion Labs, the company’s pioneering third-party
testing, qualification and interoperability facility for carrier-grade
IP applications and infrastructure. Premier Tenant status allows
Brooktrout’s customers and partners to test Brooktrout’s
SnowShore IP Media Server™ with a variety of other IMS
components prior to deployment in tekVision Labs.
“tekVizion
Labs is fulfilling a critical need in the industry by offering
a facility for service providers and other vendors, to obtain
critical, independent, third-party validation of interoperability
and product performance,” said Greg Pisano, director of
market development, Brooktrout Technology. “This partnership
enables Brooktrout application partners and our carrier customers
the ability to come to market with best of breed solutions with
dramatically reduced integration costs and testing times.”
tekVizion helps service providers achieve a smooth transition
to packet-voice networks, speeding delivery of new integrated
services. tekVizion Labs offers several services including
tekVizion and third-party certification testing, remote testing,
solution testing, IMS conformance and interoperability testing,
product/compliance assessments, and outsourced testing. Remote
testing can be used for pre-certification or ad-hoc test scenarios,
whereas formal tekVizion certification is conducted on-site at
tekVizion Labs by tekVizion engineers. Certification can be provided
between two products or in a multi-product solution. All lab
services are available to both vendors and service providers.
“Brooktrout media servers are the premier platforms for
delivering advanced multimedia IMS applications to the service
provider market,” said Terri Griffin, tekVizion’s
chief operating officer. “We are pleased to have them as
a Premier Tenant, and offer their SIP-based media servers to
our application partners and carrier customers.”
Brooktrout’s SnowShore IP Media Server™ is the industry’s
premier software-based, carrier-grade IP media server supported
by a wide range of industry standard hardware platforms running
on Red Hat Linux. It leverages the simplicity, openness,
and flexibility of SIP, VoiceXML, and MSCML to provide a cost-effective
and scalable IP media server solution, powering a broad range
of voice and video services for next-generation wireline, wireless
and broadband networks including the 3GPP/3GPP2 IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network architecture.
Potential customers of tekVizion Labs can request testing via
the tekVizion Labs website (www.tekVizionlabs.com) or by contacting
the program director, Jerry Mistrot. The tekVizion Labs website
allows anyone to register to be notified when new Premier Tenants
join the lab, when products are certified, and when new services
are offered by the Labs.
About tekVizion PVS, Inc.
tekVizion (www.tekvizion.com) has set the new standard for systems
integration in the telecommunications industry. tekVizion’s
services include consulting, custom applications, integration
and support, and testing through tekVizion Labs™-- the
first interoperability certification lab of its kind. tekVizion
Labs offers a full suite of testing services including interoperability,
solution, conformance, product compliance/ assessments and
outsourced testing. tekVizion helps service providers achieve
a smooth transition to packet-voice networks, speeding delivery
of integrated services. tekVizion leverages its real-world,
multi-vendor integration and test experience and proven processes
to provide leading vendors, carriers, and enhanced service
providers with solutions that meld legacy and next-generation
resources. tekVizion's headquarters, which includes its state-of-the-art
test lab and Executive Briefing Center, is within the Telecom
Corridor® in Richardson, Texas.
About Brooktrout
Brooktrout is a leading supplier of media processing, network
interface, call control and signal processing products that
enable the development of applications, systems and services
for both TDM and IP networks. Brooktrout was acquired in October
2005 by EAS Group, the parent corporation of Excel Switching
Corporation a leading provider of carrier-class media gateways,
media servers, signaling gateways, and enhanced service platforms
for original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers,
and service providers. The combined companies will continue
their focus on investing in technologies that enable service
providers and enterprise customers to develop new products,
introduce new services and cost-effectively transition networks
to VoIP. For more information, visit http://www.brooktrout.com/
and http://www.excelswitching.com/.
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Brooktrout, Brooktrout Technology, New
Network, and SnowShore IP Media Server are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Brooktrout, Inc. tekVizion and tekVizion
Labs are trademarks of tekVizion PVS, Inc. Telecom Corridor is
a registered trademark of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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