Media Servers include video capabilities.
Press Release Summary:
With IPmedia(TM) IMS-compliant Media Servers, service providers and NEPs can offer integrated video and audio services such as video conferencing, video messaging over MMS, and downloading of video clips and content. Person-to-person and service-to-person video streaming of content is also possible. IPmedia Video supports transcoding, transrating/bit rate adaptation, video re-sizing, and video mixing of industry standard video codecs including MPEG4/H.263.
Original Press Release:
AudioCodes Adds Video Capabilities Into Its IPmedia(TM) IMS-Compliant Media Server Platforms
LOD, Israel, Feb. 5 /- AudioCodes (NASDAQ:AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over Packet (VoP) technologies and Voice Network products, today announced the addition of video capabilities into its IPmedia(TM) family of IMS-compliant Media Servers (MRFP's in IMS terminology). The addition of this new offering to the existing voice capabilities, is designed to help service providers deploy and then monetize IP video applications in order to increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) and reduce customer churn. The unified voice and video platforms allow service providers to minimize footprint and save equipment and operational costs.
The newly introduced video capabilities will enable service providers and network equipment providers (NEPs) the ability to provide integrated video and audio services such as video conferencing, video messaging over multimedia messaging service (MMS) and downloading of video clips and content. It will also allow offering person-to-person and service-to-person video streaming of content among other potential applications. Given AudioCodes' strong media processing heritage, the IPmedia product line of media servers will support transcoding and transrating for many types of end devices over cellular, Wi-Fi, and fixed networks.
"AudioCodes has been a market leader in media servers for several years and our products are deployed in the central offices of many tier one service providers in North America, Europe and Asia," stated Ben Rabinowitz, Vice President & General Manager of Session Border Controllers and Media Server Business Lines. "We now enable video applications running on the same robust, carrier grade AudioCodes media servers. We intend to work closely with our NEP partners, value added application vendors and service providers in order to integrate video services with their service creation environments, and deploy video applications and grow revenue."
AudioCodes' IPmedia is a leading media server that offers Audio/Video processing for the media resource function (MRF) component of the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture as well as non-IMS applications. The IPmedia Video is offered on AudioCodes' media server platforms -- IPmedia 3000, IPmedia 5000 and IPmedia 8000. The IPmedia Video supports transcoding, transrating/bit rate adaptation, video re-sizing and video mixing of industry standard video codecs including MPEG4/H.263. The IPmedia Server platforms are highly available and architected to support transcoding and streaming of hundreds of video ports per blade.
About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. (NASDAQ:AUDC), Your Gateway to VoIP, provides innovative, reliable and cost-effective Voice over Packet (VOP) technology and Voice Network products 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(TM) -- 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 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.
CONTACT: Shirley Nakar, AudioCodes, +972-3-976-4000, Shirley@audiocodes.com
Web site: www.audiocodes.com/
