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April 27, 2001 — Bangalore, India
MindTree Consulting Announces Successful MGCP Stack Interoperability
Testing at MGCP Interop Event
MindTree Consulting announced the successful interoperability testing
of its MediaMind MGCP stack at the recently concluded MGCP Interop
event held at the University of New Hampshire, April 22-26.
About MediaMind
MediaMind is a next generation, lightweight, high performance softswitch
that can quickly deliver IP-Telephony services, tailored to each
user and business organization. The MediaMind framework, with an
open architecture, integrates an array of interoperable components
and service applications to enable rapid development of Call Agents
and User Agents for media gateways and enterprise-wide exchanges.
MediaMind has a unique architecture that supports multiple protocols
and easy deployment of customizable call services. MediaMind is
ideally suited for new generation network solutions and Small/Medium
Business and enterprise EPABX to provide a variety of services to
their customers.
MediaMind has been developed using JDK1.2 and can operate on Solaris,
Linux and Windows NT/2000. It supports various call features like
Auto Forward, Call Forward, Caller ID, Call Transfer, etc. It supports
both MGCP and SIP call control protocols and supports various standard
packages. It includes an easy web-based administration.
About the Event
The 7th MGCP Interop Event, held at the University of New Hampshire,
Durham, U.S.A., was organized by the International Softswitch Consortium
(ISC) from April 22 through 26, 2001. Eighteen member companies
sent representatives to test hardware and software utilizing MGCP,
otherwise known as RFC 2705. The primary purpose of this event was
to facilitate the interoperability of equipment from different vendors
in a neutral and unbiased environment. This latest interoperability
test event reflects the continuing efforts of the ISC to facilitate
seamless global interoperability of the latest in networking protocols.
MindTree was able to successfully demonstrate the interoperability
of its MediaMind stack at this event.
About MGCP
The Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) is one of a few proposed
control and signal standards to compete with the older H.323 standard
for the conversion of audio signals carried on telephone circuits
(PSTN) to data packets carried over the Internet or other packet
networks. The reason new standards are being developed is because
of the growing popularity of Voice over IP (VoIP). Regular phones
are relatively inexpensive because they don't need to be complex;
they are fixed to a specific switch at a central switching location.
IP phones and devices, on the other hand, are not fixed to a specific
switch, so they must contain processors that enable them to function
and be intelligent on their own, independent from a central switching
location. This makes the terminal (phone or device) more complex,
and therefore, more expensive. The MGCP is meant to simplify standards
for this new technology by eliminating the need for complex, processor-intense
IP telephony devices, thus simplifying and lowering the cost of
these terminals.
About MindTree
MindTree Consulting
is an international consulting company that brings extensive experience,
rapid development, and customer-centric processes to our clients.
This combination allows us to provide high-quality solutions with
lower total cost of ownership (TCO) to our clients. MindTree has
development centers and offices in the U.S., India, Singapore, and
Europe.
The Technical Business division of MindTree delivers product-realization
services through networking technology expertise and re-usable building
blocks. Areas of focus include:
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VLSI/IC Design |
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Embedded software
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Datacom protocol
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Element management
and network management solutions |
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Test framework
and test suite development |
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Building blocks
in the areas of Bluetooth™, Wireless LAN, VOIP, Network
Management and similar technologies |
About ISC
The International Softswitch Consortium supports global compatibility
and interoperability of evolving Internet protocol networks for
voice and data communications. With almost 200 members, the Consortium
members work together to advance the worldwide adoption of seamlessly
integrated communications networks through events, education and
cooperative work groups. For more information about the ISC, visit
www.softswitch.org
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