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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
tekVizion Becomes Voting Member of the Parlay Group
tekVizion Further Demonstrates Commitment
to Help Drive Adoption of Open APIs
RICHARDSON, TX – Oct 20, 2003 – tekVizion™ PVS, Inc., the
Packet Voice SpecialistsSM, and the Parlay Group today announced tekVizion’s
voting-level membership in the Parlay Group. tekVizion's service
creation expertise and broad, multi-vendor integration and testing
experience, coupled with the flexibility and openness of the Parlay
APIs, will help accelerate the delivery of real-world service
provider solutions based on open standards. Other voting members
of the Parlay Group include AePONA, Alcatel, BT, Ericsson, Fujitsu,
IBM, Incomit, Lucent Technologies, NTT Group, Siemens, Sun Microsystems,
Telcordia Technologies and Telecom Italia Labs. In addition to
the voting members, there are over 50 affiliate member companies.
“Today’s service providers need solutions that enable the rapid
deployment of new services and revenue streams, while leveraging
legacy infrastructures. Adherence to open standards is critical
to success here, and tekVizion has already demonstrated its expertise,
delivering real-world, standards-based services and solutions
for leading infrastructure and service providers that incorporate
both legacy and next generation technologies,” said Rob Rich,
executive vice president, The Yankee Group, a leading international
consultancy. “Their participation in the Parlay Group is significant
and should help spread the adoption of OSA/Parlay by more technology
and service providers.”
tekVizion provides service providers with converged solutions
that transparently combine existing assets with next generation
products to deliver profitable and sustainable service offerings
that meet strategic business objectives. tekVizion endorses the
use of open standards in telecom networks, and has pioneered the
use of OSA/Parlay in several of its engagements.
“tekVizion’s real-world experience and focused expertise building
multi-vendor solutions for service providers is a significant
addition to the Parlay Group and we are pleased to have them join
us. As a product-independent advocate for service providers, tekVizion
helps meet a growing demand by service providers around the world
for real-world experience designing and deploying OSA/Parlay-based
solutions,” said Zygmunt Lozinski, President of the Parlay Group.
“The Parlay Group has been very successful in developing open
application programming interfaces (APIs) that abstract the process
of service creation from the complexities of underlying network
technologies. This abstraction finally makes the promise of Intelligent
Networks a reality by putting the ability to create profitable
services and cost efficiencies into the hands of the service provider,”
said Lee Phillips, tekVizion’s CEO. “tekVizion has successfully
developed and deployed technology-independent applications using
OSA/Parlay, and is committed to furthering the adoption of open
telecom standards based on the significant business and technical
advantages realized by our customers.”
About The Parlay Group
The Parlay Group is a multi-vendor consortium formed to develop
open, technology-independent application programming interfaces
that enable the development of applications that operate across
multiple, networking-platform environments. Parlay integrates
network resources (e.g. Presence and Availability, Messaging and
Content charging) with IT applications via a secure, measured,
and billable interface. By releasing developers from underlying
code, networks, and environments, Parlay open APIs allow for innovation
within the enterprise. These new portable, network-independent
applications are connecting the IT and telecom worlds, generating
new revenue streams for network operators, application service
providers (ASPs), and independent software Vendors (ISVs). Additional
information about Parlay is available at www.parlay.org.
About tekVizion PVS
tekVizion (www.tekvizion.com)
designs and delivers converged solutions for service providers
that transparently integrate legacy telecom assets with next generation
products. The company is committed to using open telecom standards
to build profitable and flexible service offerings that meet both
short- and long-term business objectives. tekVizion relies on
seasoned telecom expertise, real-world multi-vendor integration
and test experience, and focused business consulting services
to deliver profitable and sustainable service offerings for the
communications service provider market.
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tekVizion, is a trademark and Packet Voice Specialists is a service
mark of tekVizion PVS, Inc. All other names are trademarks of
their respective companies.
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