IP Unity, a provider of carrier grade media server platforms, 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. The IP Unity Unified Messaging 2.0 application also adds FAX messaging, enhanced auto attendant features with multilingual support, and integrated messaging to provide a single interface for collecting messages from multiple email systems. Administrators of IP Unity’s messaging suite can also choose to activate message waiting indicators via an SMDI, SIP or SMPP interface — enabling the service provider to signal end users that they have a message waiting whether they are on an IP phone, a TDM phone or via SMS. The company said many service providers are likely to move to next generation media servers to add new revenue streams and to replace existing voicemail systems as manufacturers discontinue support for legacy platforms.
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