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 multi-media 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 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 About AudioCodes 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
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