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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
High-quality,
low-cost voice-over-IP solution offers new business opportunities for
next-generation
telcos and gateway services, accelerating adoption of VoIP
SANTA CLARA, CA --
July 20, 1998 -- InnoMedia, Inc. has released the InfoGate™ Internet
Gateway,
an innovative voice-over-IP solution designed to speed the proliferation
of next-generation telcos, gateway
services and other emerging businesses that provide VoIP services. The
system consists of a four-port
analog card and Gateway and GateKeeper software that have been engineered
by InnoMedia to provide
voice quality, reliability and scalability not previously available in
an analog solution. This substantially
lowers the costs of implementation, paving the way for faster penetration
of VoIP in the marketplace.
As a means of achieving significant savings on long-distance voice and
fax calls by routing calls over
the Internet or a company's private network, InfoGate also offers new
opportunities for existing Internet
Service Providers who want to expand into voice services, private corporate
networks seeking to lower
long-distance costs, and Web-enabled corporate call centers engaged in
electronic commerce.
"InfoGate is opening voice-over-IP to a whole new segment of customers
by delivering a high-quality,
reliable and scalable solution that uniquely addresses the needs of the
rapidly growing VoIP industry,"
said Dr. Nan-Sheng Lin, President of InnoMedia, Inc. "We now have customers
who are selling calling
card services between the United States and Asia, for example, and the
scalability and pricing structure
of InfoGate have allowed them to quickly implement their services and
recoup their investment."
"InnoMedia's Internet gateway product has the potential to help seed the
marketplace for voice-over-IP
without requiring higher-cost digital connections and larger infrastructure
investments," said Chris Shipley,
editor and publisher of DemoLetter, a highly regarded high technology
newsletter.
"It is the first solution with the voice quality, scalability, ease of
use and price point needed to bring
voice-over-IP to the wider marketplace, and that means it can play an
important role in the growth of
gateway services, next-generation telcos and voice-inclined ISPs," Shipley
said.
By establishing a network of InfoGate systems in locations with high volumes
of call traffic or in each of
a company's branch offices, phone-to-phone connections can be made between
locations via local calls
at each end, using the Internet or Intranet as the long distance carrier.
This makes it possible to deliver
long distance calls at local rates. Users can make calls from any home,
office or car telephone by entering
a personal identification number (PIN) and password, then dialing the
desired long distance number.
Key features include:
- Superior voice quality, achieved through
a combination of dynamic bandwidth allocation, adaptive
echo cancellation and advanced Automatic Gain Control technology. - System reliability provided through a
system architecture that minimizes single points of failure.
This includes multiple and redundant centralized gatekeepers, routing control that provides
alternate routes when primary gateway sites are down, and call balancing among gateways. - A high degree of scalability, with the
ability to begin with a single four-port gateway and expand as
usage requires. Multiple four-port gateways can be installed in a single PC rack, and InfoGate's
centralized gatekeeper capabilities simplify network expansion. This provides easy entry into VoIP,
addresses the needs of companies of various sizes, and allows the system to grow as the market
matures. - A centralized gatekeeper that eases management
by maintaining a registry of every gateway,
assigning PIN numbers, keeping a complete call activity log, providing ODBC-compatible output
to any standards-based database or third-party billing package to facilitate billing, and permitting
software upgrades for all nodes to be performed at a central location. - A "lowest cost routing" feature that
automatically routes calls to the least expensive gateway.
This feature, made possible by the ability of the centralized gatekeeper to maintain a centralized
pricing database, also allows calls made to a number that is not within a local calling area serviced
by an InfoGate gateway to be completed with a long distance call from the most affordable node. - Guaranteed compatibility and one-source
technical support because the gateway software,
gatekeeper software and voice processing cards have all been developed and manufactured by
InnoMedia and are delivered as a single integrated solution.
Each InfoGate gateway is designed to be
installed on a dedicated Windows NT workstation. The
system is H.323 compatible, allowing it to interoperate with other H.323
gateway products to the
extent currently allowed by the standard.
InfoGate includes the gateway software, gatekeeper software and one four-port
ISA voice processing
card, all designed and manufactured by InnoMedia. Add-on fax modules are
available at an additional
price, with one module needed per four-port card.
InfoGate is available through our nationwide resellers or directly from
the company.
About InnoMedia
Founded in 1995, InnoMedia is a privately held multinational organization
with operations in the United
States, Singapore, Taiwan and China. InnoMedia is leading the IP telephony
revolution by developing,
manufacturing, and marketing next generation Internet enabled communication
devices and providing a
global IP telephony service through the InnoSphere network. These products
and services incorporate
InnoMedia's expertise in IP telephony, videoconferencing, and wireless
networking technologies and
are targeted for consumers, enterprises, service providers, and OEM customers.
Visit InnoMedia on
the Web at www.innomedia.com.
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InnoMedia, InfoGate, InnoSphere and the InnoMedia logo are trademarks of InnoMedia Incorporated.
