Building on the convergence of voice and data networks, Wakefield, Mass.-based IPeria Inc. has developed an enhanced services platform designed to blend voice, fax, e-mail and video applications.
The IPeria Service Node consists of enhanced services applications, modular software architecture components and industry standard hardware, said the company. Based on the company’s MediaX/Ware software, the platform is designed to help service providers design applications that blend voice, fax and paging networks with data services available through the Internet and other Internet Protocol-based data networks.
“As service providers are making very large capital investments in high-speed, multiservice packet networks, the next challenge for them will be to deploy a rich set of enhanced services,” said Richard Connaughton, co-founder, president and chief executive officer of IPeria.
Connaughton noted the platform can fit into existing networks and migrate to multiservice IP networks in the future.
Through its suite of enhanced services applications called MediaX/Services, IPeria provides enhanced e-mail services, call management and content and information services. One application is the ability to initiate and respond to e-mail via any telephone. Using voice recognition technology, the system recognizes stored contact names, and the user then can record a voice message that is sent out as an e-mail.
Other applications include alerts for Internet events such as stock transactions, message consolidation from multiple e-mail and voice mail accounts, notification services, find-me calling services, call conferencing, e-mail and voice/fax mail, said the company.
In addition, the company offers the IPeria e@ccount, which provides a single access point via the Web, allowing customers to configure services to meet their individual needs.
The company expects the IPeria Service Node to enter market trials in June with product availability scheduled for the third quarter. IPeria’s initial target customers include wireless carriers, Internet service providers, competitive local exchange carriers and cable companies.
