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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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