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Eicon Networks and Vocalocity Announce Voice Browser Alliance; Speech-Enabled VoiceXML Browsers Target OEM Customers

Posted on: Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 09:00 CDT

Eicon Networks Corporation ("Eicon"), a global leader in providing high quality communication products for networked business applications, and Vocalocity, a leading provider of OEM software for standards-based telephony solutions, today announced their strategic OEM alliance. Vocalocity will integrate its VocalOS framework to Eicon Networks' Diva Server platform, thus offering customers a fully seamless telephony solution and a faster path to developing applications that take advantage of standards such as VoiceXML and advanced speech technologies. Eicon and Vocalocity are currently working with a global telecommunications company that will implement voice applications on the platform.

"Partnering with Vocalocity enables our customers to leverage their existing and future investments in Eicon Networks' to build sophisticated voice applications utilizing the latest standards," said Kipton Heuertz, vice president, Product Marketing and Alliances, Americas at Eicon. "Additionally, Vocalocity's OEM focus fits very well with Eicon Networks' market focus in North America and Europe."

"The tightly integrated offering simplifies deployment of advanced voice applications for medium and large enterprises, allowing OEMs and solution providers to concentrate resources on application development and platform optimization," said John Hibel, vice president, Business Development at Vocalocity.

Vocalocity's VoiceXML 2.1 Voice Browser is built on a flexible and extensible framework. The browser manages telephony, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), DTMF, third party or custom services, media, and other needed resources.

The Diva Server telephony adapters provide a full set of voice processing functions including tone detection and generation, voice activity detection and echo cancellation. Powerful onboard Digital Signal Processor (DSP) resources - dedicated to each communication channel, ensure real-time voice processing and reduced latency and overall system performance improvement for sophisticated, high-density speech solutions.

Up to eight Diva Server adapters - offering 2 to 240 channels - can be installed to operate concurrently in a single server. Any type of Diva Server adapter - Analog, ISDN BRI, ISDN PRI, or E1/T1, can work together in the same server. Ease of installation is guaranteed as all Diva Server adapters conform to Plug and Play standards, eliminating the need to manually configure your server. Diva Server adapters are ready to be used with all state-of-the-art operating systems, offering drivers for both Microsoft Windows and Linux. Diva Server drivers for Windows are officially certified by the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL).

About Vocalocity

Vocalocity provides OEM software components and tools that ease the adoption and ongoing support of standards for open telephony. Free from the complexity of developing and maintaining support for VoiceXML, CCXML, SIP, and other evolving standards, Vocalocity customers can concentrate their internal resources on building competitive advantage. Based in Atlanta, GA, Vocalocity is privately held with funding from Sutter Hill Ventures, H.I.G. Capital, Five Paces Ventures, Imlay Investments, Georgia Tech's ATDC Seed Capital Fund, and Atlanta Technology Angels. Information about Vocalocity is available at www.vocalocity.com.

About Eicon Networks Corporation

Eicon Networks has been designing, manufacturing and marketing leading brands of communications products since 1984. The company's portfolio includes the Diva Server range of media processing products for voice, speech, conferencing, fax, and document handling applications and Eiconcard range of transaction processing products. Eicon distributes, markets and supports its products in more than 80 countries through a network of channel partners, telecommunication companies (telcos), internet service providers (ISPs), independent software vendors (ISVs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Information about Eicon Networks is available at www.eicon.com.

Eicon, Eicon Networks, Diva and Diva Server are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Eicon Networks Corporation or its subsidiaries. Eicon encourages all users of its products to procure all necessary intellectual property licenses required to implement their concepts or applications, which licenses may vary from country to country.

Source: Business Wire

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