The convergence of the telecommunications industry around the IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) (IMS) architecture has necessitated greater complexity in IP media processing solutions. Fixed, mobile, and cable service providers deploying IMS and pre-IMS services need solutions to reduce service delivery costs and to hasten time to market of new voice, video, and multimedia services.
In addressing these latest requirements, Convedia, a global provider of IP media processing for VoIP and IMS networks, has unveiled the newest members of its hardware family: The CMS-3000 and CMS-9000 Media Servers. The two new products are based on a new, modular hardware platform incorporating the latest DSPs and processor chipsets. They are the first products to be based on Convedia’ s recently-announced eXtended Media Processing (eXMP) technology.
The CMS-3000 and CMS-9000 leverage the company’s expertise in IP media processing and are designed to provide optimal performance, flexibility, and economic benefit for media-intensive IMS networks and services.
Processing XML-based scripts, storing and retrieving multimedia files, the growing use of low bitrate audio codecs, high complexity video codecs, and sophisticated VoIP security, all require increasingly vigorous and accomodating IP media processing platforms. To meet these challenges, Convedia is providing new hardware and embedded software technology, all the while making its new products backwards compatible with existing Convedia products to help limit additional — and unnecessary — investment in hardware.
The CMS-9000 is Convedia’s new carrier-class IP media server. It incorporates a family of new modular media processing cards, which are 100% compatible with existing CMS-6000 deployments — current customers can reap the benefits of Convedia’s latest hardware innovations while still protecting their investment in CMS-6000 systems.
Enterprise customers will find the CMS-3000 Media Server comes in a convenient rack mountable, space saving 1RU size, while still incorporating the latest technology from Convedia.
Both the CMS-9000 and the CMS-3000 are backward compatible with Convedia’s management and control interfaces, both are designed to accommodate future expansion cards for added scalability.
The two products are the first products to incorporate Convedia’s new eXtended Media Processing (eXMP) technology. eXMP technology is hardware and processor independent, and is optimized to run on dual/multi-core general purpose CPU- or DSP-based platforms. Solutions using eXMP technology will comprise multiple configurations, from purpose-built high end media servers, through ATCA blade and hardware accelerator products, to software-only implementations running on generic Linux servers or embedded in proprietary third-party platforms such as routers, switches, and gateways.
eXMP technology provides a “one-stop shop” for IP media processing solutions, regardless of platform, protocol, market, or application. It is designed to extend Convedia’s media processing expertise to cover the entire range of media processing deployment options — from small enterprise customer point solutions running on third-party platforms to the largest carrier-class IMS multi-service deployments.
Erik Linask is Associate Editor of INTERNET TELEPHONY. Most recently, he was Managing Editor at Global Custodian, an international securities services publication. To see more of his articles, please visit Erik Linask’s columnist page.
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