Bellcore Adopts Amteva's Unified Messaging Plus Solution; Bellcore provide best-of-breed solution to enable carriers to meet
Business Editors
RICHMOND, Va. & MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999--
US$970 million market demand(a)
Bellcore today announced that they have adopted Amteva's Unified
Messaging Plus(TM) as a core technology for providing IP-based
messaging solutions to their customers. Bellcore, a leading provider of
communications software, engineering and consulting services, has included
Amteva's Unified Messaging Plus in its unified messaging solution, which is
currently available to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs),
incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), Internet service providers
(ISPs) and global enterprises.
Amteva's Unified Messaging Plus is the only carrier-class and extended
capacity IP-based messaging solution available today. It allows a user with a
telephone or computer to access and deliver voice-mail, fax mail and e-mail
messages from a single mailbox through the Internet Protocol (IP) network.
Unified Messaging Plus is comprised of four components; Voice Messaging
over IP, Fax Messaging over IP, E-mail Messaging and Single Number
Reach. Its power is based on a scalable, protocol-driven, standards-based
architecture that is readily equipped for deployments on top of existing
IP-based network infrastructures.
The Bellcore Unified Messaging solution, currently being trialed by
customers of Manitoba Telecom Services, enables individuals to direct all
voice, e-mail, pages and fax messages to one central location, enabling users
to manage both their internal and external communications more efficiently. It
allows a sender's medium of choice to be different from the recipient's
medium of retrieving the message since voice and data transmissions are
captured and stored in a single mailbox.
"Amteva's Unified Messaging Plus product is part of Bellcore's Unified
Messaging Solution, which harnesses the power of the IP network for a
wide variety of messaging applications and scales to handle millions of
users," said Richard Tarabour, Bellcore's Director of Advanced Services
Planning and Engineering. "In addition, its open architecture and
standards-based approach allows CLECs, ILECs, ISPs and global
enterprises to deploy one of the most sought-after value-added services on
top of existing network topologies."
According to Dean Dodrill, President and CEO of Amteva, "We're
pleased that Bellcore, a company at the forefront of the latest
communications technologies, has adopted our software. The fact that
Bellcore, a worldwide organization known for its communications solutions
and industry knowledge, positions Unified Messaging Plus as a key part of
their overall messaging strategy speaks volumes about the market's
readiness for powerful unified messaging solutions. We believe this continues
to validate our position as the premier provider in IP-based messaging."
Amteva's Standards-Based Framework
Amteva's Unified Messaging Plus is built on a distributed, object-based
framework with native support for all major industry standards such as
LDAP, IMAP4, SMTP/MIME, VPIM and HTTP/HTML, and supports
centralized SNMP management and web-based administration. Amteva's
open, scalable and extensible architecture means that once it is installed it
can support virtually any type of value-added messaging application that the
future may demand. This approach helps drive down the cost of
implementing new services, provides a foundation for growth in the
millennium, improves time to market for introducing new applications, and
provides a comprehensive operations, administration, maintenance and
provisioning capability.
About Bellcore's Unified Messaging Solution
Bellcore's Unified Messaging Solution simplifies message retrieval by
providing a single access point for an individual's messages wherever they
are. The user manages, stores and retrieves messages based on conditions
they themselves set. Users can set their systems so that they are notified
about certain messages right away. Access to messages is done in various
ways:
o From a desktop or portable computer either on the network or
through a dial-up connection to the office: The user's e-mail
inbox will show all e-mail, voice mail, pages and faxes. Double
clicking on the message will bring up an e-mail window, a voice
mail player with tape-recorder buttons or a fax viewer.
o By telephone: E-mails and fax headers can be forwarded to a
telephone and heard using text-to-speech conversion software.
o By pager: The subject, origin, and limited text in the messages
can be forwarded onto a pager, so the user can be alerted to
important messages.
Unified Messaging is particularly suited to people whose work is
non-routine and unstructured, for example, "road warriors" who need to be
able to access and respond to all message types wherever they are using the
most convenient communication device available to them at that particular
time.
About Bellcore
Bellcore, an SAIC Company, provides software, engineering, consulting
and training services to optimize the performance of communication
networks worldwide. Bellcore was created in 1984, employs 6,000
professionals, and has revenues of more than $1 billion. Bellcore
(www.bellcore.com) is headquartered in Morristown, NJ, with offices
throughout the United States, Europe, Central and South America and Asia
Pacific. |
