IP Unity and Gallery IP Telephony, a provider of cable multimedia softswitching platforms, announced an interoperable messaging, conferencing, and pre-paid calling solutions for cable networks. The joint solution for MSOs provides a unified messaging suite with standard voicemail. Cable subscribers could also chose to integrate voicemail with email, receiving voice messages as WAV files in their email inbox and accessing emails through a telephone using IP Unity's text-to-speech technology. Unlike traditional conferencing applications, IP Unity's conferencing suite utilizes the media server's digital signal mixing and quality monitoring to ensure that only the three strongest signals are carried on the conference bridge. IP Unity and Gallery IP previously completed interoperability testing between IP Unity's Harmony 6000 Media Server platform and Gallery's softswitch. They have subsequently conducted further interoperability testing on each of IP Unity's Unified Messaging, Audio/Web Conferencing and Pre-paid Services applications.
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- In May 2003, IP Unity announced general availability of its second-generation media server, featuring VoiceXML 2.0 and SIP capabilities. With the addition of VoiceXML 2.0 on the media server platform, developers can create voice and multimedia applications using standard development tools. The new IP Unity Harmony6000 media server adds speech recognition capabilities via software integrated onto a dedicated blade of the server. This enables service providers to offer speech applications that require intensive processing. The newly enhanced Harmony6000 enables the implementation of encryption algorithms and security mechanisms (IPSec, IKE, PKINIT). The IP Unity media server can also can be dynamically partitioned, allowing the media processing resources to be divided between multiple applications and/or multiple organizations.
IP Unity also released several enhancements to help carriers integrate its unified messaging suite into existing legacy voicemail systems.
