Market Leaders Showcase Newest IP Telephony Products and Services in RADVision Voice and Video Over IP Convergence Pavilion at NetWorld+Interop in Atlanta

Cambridge Telcom Report, Sept 6, 1999

RADVision, Inc., the leading technology provider of award-winning industry-standard "building blocks" for voice, video, and data convergence, along with co-sponsors Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, Polycom, Inc., the global leader in multimedia communication solutions, and ACT Networks, the leading provider of key hardware and software technologies and products for the multi-service access segment of the global networking industry, join forces at the RADVision Voice and Video Over IP Convergence Pavilion at NetWorld Interop this month to showcase innovative IP telephony and conferencing solutions for converged networks. The Pavilion is located at the Georgia World Congress Center from September 14 to 16.

* RADVision will showcase its enhanced family of multi-protocol IP telephony developer toolkits for building industry-standard IP telephony products and services. The suite of toolkits includes support for the most widely used IP communications protocols -- H.323 and MGCP. RADVision toolkits span the software "food chain" and range from core protocol stacks and gatekeeper toolkits for "soft-switch" PBX functionality and comprehensive network resource management, to next generation IP service creation tools for building IVR (interactive voice response) applications for new decomposition gateway architectures. RADVision will also show its OnLAN enterprise networking family of products including voice/video gateways, conferencing bridges and "shrink wrapped" gatekeeper applications that can be used to build a total enterprise IP-based multimedia PBX (Private Branch Exchange).

END-TO-END INTEROPERABILITY FOR MULTI-VENDOR NETWORKS IS A REALITY

At the Pavilion, attendees will see true end-to-end interoperability in multi-vendor hybrid IP networks. RADVision multimedia L2W-323 BRI and PRI Gateways and high performance NGK-100 gatekeeper application will interconnect pavilion partners' products and enable network endpoints to make voice and video calls to the wide area network. Support for multipoint sessions will be demonstrated using the latest MCU products from RADVision, Accord Telecommunications and White Pine.

Partners such as Accord Telecommunications, Alcatel, Breezecom, Madge Networks, Natural Microsystems, Quicknet Technologies, Telogy Networks, VCON and White Pine will be interoperating with the RADVision Gatekeeper, Gateway and MCU, with products ranging from handheld wireless devices, IP phones, PC's, MCU's and gateways. Other partners such as 3COM, Compaq, InfoInterActive, Integrated Systems, NexTone, Sonus Networks and Wind River will be demonstrating technologies developed with RADVision building blocks.

The IMTC (International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium), the industry's primary "vendor-neutral" interoperability testing organization, will also be exhibiting at the pavilion. Attendees can learn about IMTC-sponsored SuperOp! testing events -- only open to engineers -- where competing companies come together behind closed doors to solve interoperability issues.

All pavilion exhibitors are participating in the RADVision PASSPORT TO INTEROPERABILITY program. Attendees who learn about interoperability first-hand by visiting pavilion partners can return their stamped passports to be entered to win a trip to Hawaii, the site of the latest IMTC SuperOp event.

Co-sponsor Cisco Presents Cutting-Edge IP Voice and Video Products Cisco is spotlighting the Multimedia Conference Manager, an H.323 gatekeeper/proxy running on Cisco's IOS router platforms. The MCM provides gatekeeper functionality and QoS capabilities for videoconferencing by reserving bandwidth and enforcing priority for audio and video streams in an IP WAN environment. The Multimedia Conference Manager interoperates with other solutions in the Pavilion, including the RADVision multimedia L2W-323 gateway, H.323 videoconferencing endpoints and the RADVision NGK-100 Windows NT gatekeeper application.

Co-sponsor Polycom demonstrates interoperability

Polycom will demonstrate interoperability for its ViewStation(TM) videoconferencing product line. See Polycom's H.323-compliant, IP-based conferencing systems built with RADVision H.323 Protocol Stack. The demonstration highlights interoperability between Polycom ViewStation videoconferencing systems and RADVision's market-leading gatekeeper and gateway internetworking products for both point-to-point and multipoint sessions over wide area networks.

Co-sponsor ACT Networks shows best-of-class voice gateway

To prove that ACT Network's ServiceXchange SX-10 offers the best quality of any voice gateway on the market, ACT put together a demonstration in which callers can listen to a connection between two SX-10 gateway units linked over frame relay and Internet protocol, working in concert with ACT's GateXchange gatekeeper. The ServiceXchange SX-10 interoperates with other solutions in the Pavilion through the RADVision L2W-323 Gateway and NGK-100 Next Generation Gatekeeper.