Nortel Networks Introduces Media Application Server

Nortel Networks introduced a Media Application Server for delivering customized packet telephony applications that incorporate speech recognition, text-to-speech, and DTMF detection and other processing-intensive capabilities. Nortel Networks will implement enhanced media processing capabilities in software rather than hardware. The new Media Application Server, which will work with Nortel Networks Multimedia Communication Server 5100 and 5200, will support open interfaces -- such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and VoiceXML (VXML). By the second half of 2004, Media Application Server will also support multiple scripting engines for third party development, including Application Development Toolset (ADT), VoiceXML 2.0, CCXML, and SALT.
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