News: LKON teams up:
( BW)(CA-MOCKINGBIRD-NETWORKS) Mockingbird
and Linkon Enter Into Joint Development Agreement
Business Editors, High-Tech Writers
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1999--
Two Pioneers in Hybrid Telephony/Voice-over-IP
Technology Join Forces to Develop Next Generation
of Voice/Data Integration
Mockingbird Networks announced today that it has signed a joint
agreement with Linkon Corporation to develop and share next-generation
hybrid IP/telephony platform technology.
The two companies are the industry leaders in developing voice/data technology for the competitive carrier market, and the agreement enables them to now leverage complementary technology developed independently by each company. Working together, Mockingbird Networks and Linkon will concentrate on advancing hybrid IP/telephony technology in numerous areas, from improving enhanced messaging services and increasing port densities, to expanding system scalability and lowering costs.
"Sharing technology and working with Mockingbird Networks is a great opportunity for Linkon that will certainly increase the momentum of voice/data convergence and voice-over-IP," said Lee Hill, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Linkon. "Their experience in building complex, scalable, high capacity platforms dovetails nicely with our open systems-based software architecture. With both companies committed to highly adaptable and flexible open-source systems, our customers in the carrier-class market are assured of avoiding the proprietary software development trap."
"Working with Linkon allows us to substantially improve our time to market, and more aggressively develop products based on the solid,
proven technology that Linkon has deployed around the world," said Craig Forney, Chief Executive Officer of Mockingbird Networks. "We share the same architectural philosophy based on open systems design for cost efficiency and flexibility, which is why this joint development effort is so straightforward and makes so much sense.
We look forward to working closely with Linkon on advancing hybrid IP/telephony technologies to new heights."
"It is great to see the two hybrid IP telephony technology leaders joining forces to develop leading-edge solutions based on the SPARC/Solaris and Java platforms," said Ed Grainger, IP Network Service Partner Manager at Sun Microsystems. "Sun recognizes the importance of supporting strategic developers who can provide carrier class software and hardware platforms for the converged network, and it's gratifying to see this level of cooperation in the burgeoning voice/data industry."
A pioneer in deploying first generation IP telephony platforms, Linkon Corporation's software and hardware products feature a "Universal Port" architecture that provides for efficient, multimedia communications in large networked environments. The company's LinkOS Operating System manages digital signal processing resources, memory, and software objects for telephony, fax, modem, speech compression, recognition, verification and synthesis. Linkon hardware includes the Maestro System, a modular and scalable DSP-based platform for processing voice, fax, voice compression, modem, speech recognition and synthesis. The Maestro System also provides public switched telephone network connectivity, echo cancellation for IP Telephony applications, and computer bus and computer telephony bus connectivity. Linkon technology-based systems
include the LinkNet IP Telephony Gateway -- a new offering for the
rapidly growing Internet telephone market -- and the ESCAPE Enhanced
Services Platform for the dynamic call center automation market.
Mockingbird Networks is the manufacturer of the hybrid Nuvo 500
telephony switch which is designed to seamlessly interface public switched telephone network (PSTN) voice circuits with Internet Protocol (IP) networks or backbones. The open systems-based Nuvo product family allows carriers and Internet Service Providers (ISP) to interface to local exchanges and offer Telco-quality telephone service to their customers, while bypassing the traditional long distance networks. Mockingbird Networks' embedded systems design technology, drivers and applications for hybrid networking have significantly advanced the burgeoning Voice-over-IP marketplace.
About Linkon Corporation
Linkon develops and markets Internet Protocol Telephony enhanced
services equipment and services for the telecom, data, cable, utility and Internet industries. Linkon was recently named as one of Deloitte & Touche's "Fast 50," a group of the fastest growing companies in
Connecticut. The magazine Internet Telephony named the Corporation's
LinkNet IP Telephony Switch as a "Product of the Year" for 1998. Linkon products are sold to end-users and through system integrators, application developers, value-added resellers and original equipment manufacturers.
About Mockingbird Networks
Founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Opus Systems, Mockingbird
Networks (MBN) develops IP telephony equipment for the competitive
carrier market. The company's Nuvo IP telephony switches enable carriers in emerging and deregulated markets to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy a network infrastructure that supports both traditional voice communications and new IP-based next-generation applications. The company leverages its hardware design and telephony expertise to deliver this new class of SS7-enabled, open systems switches with the fault resilience, network management, density, serviceability, and performance required for carrier-class equipment. The company is based in Cupertino, and is privately held. For more information, please call 408/342-1067 or visit them on the Web at www.mockingbirdnet.com.
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CONTACT: Dave & Bairey Communications
Fiona Hughes, 925/672-9547
fiona@dbcomm.com
or
Mockingbird Networks, Cupertino
John Chun, 408/342-1067
jchun@mockingbirdnet.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA CONNECTICUT
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET
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