Brooktrout and VoiceGenie Collaborate to Deliver New Generation of High Scale Speech Driven Multimedia Applications
October 17 2005 - 3:03PM
PR Newswire (US)
Strategic Partnership Features Brooktrout's Best-of-Breed IP Media
Server with VoiceGenie's Industry-leading VoiceXML Technology:
Brooktrout Solution to Drive Advanced Multimedia Services for Fixed
and Mobile Operators NEEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ --
Brooktrout Technology, a leading supplier of media processing and
call-control products, and VoiceGenie Technologies Inc., the leader
in VoiceXML and speech platforms, today announced a strategic
technology partnership between the two companies. Brooktrout will
incorporate VoiceGenie's VoiceXML technology into its SnowShore IP
media server to help enable fixed and mobile service providers to
rapidly bring to market a new generation of high scale
speech-driven multimedia services. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990806/BRKTTECH ) Brooktrout
and VoiceGenie enjoy a broad strategic partnership and are
collaborating to deliver media server products through their
partnership in the first quarter of 2006. Brooktrout expects to
make VoiceGenie's industry leading VoiceXML 2.0-compliant
technology a standard feature of the SnowShore IP Media Server,
providing carriers with enhanced speech processing capabilities and
scalable VoiceXML support combined with carrier-grade multimedia
processing for advanced speech-driven applications. "A core tenet
of Brooktrout's product strategy is to partner with best-of- breed
application technology developers to deliver high value multimedia
platforms that can blend rich media/web content with voice services
for the global service provider market with superior scale and
performance," said Peter Vescuso, Brooktrout's vice president of
market development. "VoiceGenie is a long-time partner of
Brooktrout and the industry's leading developer of carrier-grade
VoiceXML technologies. This solution enables Brooktrout to provide
our partners and service provider customers with the mission
critical application building blocks to transform the vision of
next generation multimedia services into a deployed reality." As a
pioneering contributor to VoiceXML's advancement, VoiceGenie
continues to support and influence the direction of the standard as
a participant on the VoiceXML Forum's Board of Directors and a
member of the W3C. Brooktrout pioneered the SIP-based IP media
server, and has also contributed to the advancement of protocols
including VoiceXML, which has become a standard and accepted method
of providing interactive speech control for media processing
resources. "Combining the power of Brooktrout's field proven
SnowShore IP Media Server processing solutions with VoiceGenie's
unmatched strength in VoiceXML and MRCP technologies brings
together impressive synergies," said Frank Tersigni, vice president
of Marketing and Business Development at VoiceGenie Technologies.
"Our goal is to provide integrated technology that will enhance
Brooktrout's compelling multimedia processing solutions."
Brooktrout's SnowShore IP Media Server(TM) is a 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 IPMultimedia Subsystem (IMS)
network architecture. This strategic partnership agreement comes on
the heels of VoiceGenie's recent announcement to collaborate with
Brooktrout on interoperability of VoiceGenie's Media Resource
Function Controller (MRFC) with the Brooktrout SnowShore IP Media
Server's Media Resource Function Processor (MRFP) as defined by the
IMS network architecture. About VoiceGenie Technologies Inc.
VoiceGenie is the leading supplier of standards-based Media
Controller software to process VoiceXML applications; speech and
DTMF applications; and provide media control. VoiceGenie's Media
Controller is certified as VoiceXML 2.0 conformant by the VoiceXML
Forum and also supports standards and protocols such as CCXML, X+V,
SIP and MRCP. VoiceGenie powers some of the largest VoiceXML and
VoIP deployments in the world and successfully manages millions of
customer calls daily. Our customers include leading telecomm
service providers such as AT&T, Bell Canada, BellSouth, France
Telecom, mobilkom austria, Orange, SBC Technology, Telkom South
Africa, Verizon, Vodafone, and others. More information can be
found on the company's web site at http://www.voicegenie.com/.
About Brooktrout Technology Brooktrout Technology 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 the New Network(TM)
(packet-based) and the traditional telephone (TDM) network, and
active in the standards setting process. Eric Burger, Brooktrout's
CTO, is the chair of the SPEECHSC workgroup for the IETF where MRCP
and voice standards are defined. The company's strategy is to
partner with our customers and collaborate closely with them to
help accelerate their delivery of new applications and services,
increase their existing business, and expand into new markets. For
more information, visit http://www.brooktrout.com/. Brooktrout
Technology is a subsidiary of Brooktrout, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRKT).
Brooktrout, Brooktrout Technology, New Network, and TR1000 are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Brooktrout, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Contact:
Laura Often Lida Joly (781) 453-4858 +32 658 01 90
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