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Audiocodes Ltd. — Regulatory Filings 2007
Mar 19, 2007
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AudioCodes
APEX VOICE COMMUNICATIONS
The Application Server Company
PRESS RELEASE
Contacts
Shirley Nakar AudioCodes Tel: +972-3-976-4000 [email protected]
Elhum Vahdat APEX Voice Communications Tel: +1 818-379-8400 [email protected]
APEX Voice Communications Selects AudioCodes' Blades for OmniVox3D® SIP Application Server Solution
Standards-compliant solution speeds design, development and deployment of multi-media services
Spring VON Conference & Expo and Lod, Israel – March 19, 2007 – AudioCodes (NASDAQ:AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network products, today announced that APEX Voice Communications has completed the integration of the AudioCodes IPM-260/SIP media resource board into the OmniVox3D® SIP Application Server solution. As a result of this integration, APEX’s OmniVox3D® Application Server together with AudioCodes’ IPM-260/SIP media resource boards, provide wireline and wireless telecom service providers with a faster method to design, develop and deploy standards-compliant multi-media services including Real Time Billing (Prepaid), Calling Cards, IVR, Unified Messaging, and Conference Calling.
"We are very excited to highlight the integration with APEX as it demonstrates our SIP strategy in action," said Sharone Ben-Levi, VP of Marketing for the AudioCodes Blade Business Line. "In this integration, APEX leveraged the on-board SIP and MSCML features of the IPM-260/SIP board avoiding the problems associated with operating-system dependent device drivers and APIs found in legacy CTI boards."
"We are very pleased to be working with AudioCodes and leveraging their SIP and MSCML features," said Elhum Vahdat, Executive Vice President of APEX Voice Communications. "Our OmniVox3D Application Server together with AudioCodes' media server blades are an ideal combination for value-added IP multimedia services."
The AudioCodes IPM-260/SIP is a complete VoIP media resource solution on a PCI form-factor board and a member of the successful IPmedia™ product family, which includes PCI, cPCI and pre-packaged systems products. The IPM-260/SIP offers a range of media resources including IVR, conferencing, tone detection, and transcoding required for both enterprise and carrier enhanced applications. Leveraging the AudioCodes SIP architecture, the IPM-260/SIP is specifically designed to take command and control via SIP and MSCML over Ethernet, eliminating the need for PCI drivers or complex API development and allows for more
APEX Selects AudioCodes for OmniVox3D® SIP Application Server Solution
efficient and flexible distributed architectures. The IPM-260/SIP enables next generation applications for both today's and tomorrow's networks.
APEX Voice Communications' OmniVox3D® is a carrier-grade SIP Application Server that includes a browser-based GUI OAM&P console and the award-winning OmniView® service creation environment, widely used for rapidly Designing, Developing and Deploying value-added network services. Deployed in over 250 telecom service providers worldwide, OmniVox3D on a single platform can process numerous applications, including Real Time Billing (Prepaid), Calling Cards, IVR, Unified Messaging, Conference Calling, Automated Collect Calling and Network Announcement services. OmniVox3D's robust service execution environment, along with its modular design and (optional) fault-tolerant configuration, allow it to easily integrate into Next Generation, PSTN or wireless intelligent networks as a core element. Either as a standalone server or distributed across multiple platforms, OmniVox3D's open architecture allows it to seamlessly integrate with third-party components such softswitches, media servers, media gateways and SIP proxy servers that are IMS, MSCML, MSML/MOML or VXML compliant.
About APEX Voice Communications
APEX Voice Communications is a global supplier of carrier-grade SIP Application Servers and Multi-Service Platforms for value-added multi-media services to telecom service providers, enterprises, VARs and OEMs. Since 1989, APEX's high-density, open platforms have been installed at over 15,000 sites in 95 countries, enabling innovative, revenue-generating services to reach the market quickly, easily and cost-effectively. APEX products are engineered for PSTN, IP and converged networks, offering the ideal next-generation converged communications platform solution for wireless and wireline services.
About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. (NASDAQ: AUDC), Your Gateway to VoIP, provides innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over Packet (VOP) technology, Voice Network products, and applications to OEMs, Network Equipment Providers, Service Providers and System Integrators worldwide. AudioCodes provides a diverse range of flexible, comprehensive media gateway and media processing technologies (based on VoIPerfect™ – AudioCodes' underlying, best-of-breed, core media gateway architecture) and Session Border Controllers (SBCs). The company is a market leader in product development, focused on VoIP Media Gateway, Media Server and SBC technologies and network products. AudioCodes has deployed tens of millions of media gateway and media server channels globally over the past few years and is a key originator of the ITU G.723.1 standard for the emerging Voice over IP market. The Company is a VoIP technology leader focused on quality, having recently received a number one ranking from ETSI for outstanding voice quality in its media gateways and media servers. AudioCodes voice network products feature media gateway and media server platforms for packet-based applications in the converged, wireline, wireless, broadband access, enhanced voice services and video markets. AudioCodes enabling technology products include VoIP and CTI communication
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blades, VoIP media gateway processors and modules, and CPE devices. AudioCodes’ headquarters and R&D facilities are located in Israel with an R&D extension in the U.S. Other AudioCodes’ offices are located in Europe, the Far East, and Latin America. For further information on AudioCodes, visit www.audiocodes.com
Statements concerning AudioCodes' business outlook or future economic performance; product introductions and plans and objectives related thereto; and statements concerning assumptions made or expectations as to any future events, conditions, performance or other matters, are "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined under U.S. Federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions in general and conditions in AudioCodes' industry and target markets in particular; shifts in supply and demand; market acceptance of new products and continuing products' demand; the impact of competitive products and pricing on AudioCodes' and its customers' products and markets; timely product and technology development/upgrades and the ability to manage changes in market conditions as needed; possible disruptions from acquisitions; the integration of acquired companies' products and operations into AudioCodes' business; and other factors detailed in AudioCodes' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AudioCodes assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.
AudioCodes, AC, Ardito, AudioCoded, NetCoder, TrunkPack, VoicePacketizer, MediaPack, Stretto, Mediant, VoIPerfect and IPmedia, OSN, Open Solutions Network, What's Inside Matters, Your Gateway To VoIP, 3GX and Nuera, Netrake, InTouch, CTI² and CTI Squared are trademarks or registered trademarks of AudioCodes Limited. All other products or trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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