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Cantata Partners With Kapsch CarrierCom AG to Deliver Innovative
IP Solutions to Central and Eastern European Service Providers
Leading Systems Integrator Leverages Power of Media Server
and VoIP Media Gateway
NEEDHAM, Mass, - June 13, 2007 — Cantata
Technology™, one of the world’s leading providers of
enabling communications technology, today announced it has entered
into a partnership agreement with Kapsch CarrierCom AG, a leading
European systems integrator. Under the terms of the agreement, Kapsch
CarrierCom AG will incorporate Cantata’s innovative and award-winning
SnowShore® IP Media Server™ and IMG 1010™ Integrated
Media and Signaling VoIP Gateway in solutions it delivers to tier-one
service providers in Central and Eastern Europe.
Kapsch CarrierCom AG, a division of Austria-based Kapsch Group,
a family owned company established in 1892, delivers a wide range
of service provider applications based upon solutions from best-in-class
vendors. Cantata will now become a major provider of IP-enabling,
revenue-generating solutions in Kapsch CarrierCom’s next-generation
product and technology portfolio.
“Partnering with Cantata will enable Kapsch CarrierCom to
allow our service provider customers to rapidly and cost-effectively
deploy lucrative next-generation services on now generation networks,”
said Thomas Schopf, board of directors member, Kapsch CarrierCom
AG. “The SnowShore IP Media Server provides scalable, carrier-grade
media and video processing resources for interactive applications,
while the IMG 1010 media gateway offers legacy connectivity o TDM
networks for next-generation IP-based applications.”
“We are honored to partner with Kapsch CarrierCom, a successful
systems integrator in the Central and Eastern European top-tier
service provider market,” said Timothy L. Murray, chief executive
officer, Cantata Technology. “We look forward to a long, fruitful,
and mutually beneficial partnership with Kapsch CarrierCom, as we
provide the enabling technology for its service provider customers
to fully leverage the benefits – technological and financial
– of transitioning to an all-IP environment.”
About Cantata’s SnowShore IP Media Server and IMG
1010 Media and Signaling VoIP Gateway
Cantata’s SnowShore IP Media Server is the industry’s
premier software-based, carrier-grade IP media server supported
on a wide range of industry standard hardware platforms running
with 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 today’s and tomorrow’s wireline, wireless
and broadband networks including the 3GPP/3GPP2 IP Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS) network architecture. The SnowShore IP Media Server is certified
and supported by a wide range of application server partners.
Cantata’s IMG 1010 is an integrated media and signaling VoIP
gateway that provides any-to-any network connectivity, enabling
delivery of SIP services into legacy SS7/PRI networks, as well as
IP-to-IP transcoding for networking peering applications. The IMG
1010 offers the widest range of network interfaces in a scalable,
high density 1U package, allowing service providers to deploy applications
across fixed and mobile networks worldwide.
About Kapsch CarrierCom AG
Kapsch CarrierCom AG, is the leading supplier, independent of manufacturers,
of services and solutions for service providers and carriers.
Our service offering comprises the complete range of modern communication
networks: from fixed-, mobile- and data networks via broadband communication,
Internet Solutions, Next Generation Networks, UMTS up to Service
Enabling and Mediation Platforms. In addition, our portfolio includes
tailor-made products and services for the IT-sector as well as e-services
and e-applications.
With a longstanding, excellent knowledge of the markets, state-of-the-art
know how and a first-class service network in Central Europe, we
are able to implement customized solutions that not only are profitable
but also ensure the constant value-add for our customers. This fact
is also supported by our numerous reference projects for major European
network operators.
About Cantata Technology
Cantata Technology, established in 2006 through the combination
of Brooktrout Technology® and Excel Switching Corporation, provides
enabling communications hardware and software that empowers the
creation and delivery of anytime, anywhere IP-based communications
applications. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience, Cantata
offers the broadest range of products, along with a worldwide network
of partners that allows service provider and enterprise customers
to develop new products, introduce new services and cost-effectively
transition networks to IP. Headquartered in Needham, Mass., Cantata
maintains multiple locations worldwide in North America, Asia and
Europe. For more information, visit http://www.cantata.com.
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