NEW YORK-Amteva Technologies Inc., Glen Allen, Va., announced May 5 the introduction of Unified Messaging Plus, a carrier-class software to allow wireless and wireline phones and other devices to use the Internet.
The result of three years and $20 million of research, the solution allows access to and delivery of voice, fax and e-mail messages from any mobile or fixed handset.
“It provides intelligence to dumb terminals by sitting at the edge of the Internet Protocol network,” said Dean Dodrill, chief executive officer of Amteva.
Unified Messaging Plus comprises four components: voice messaging over IP, fax messaging over IP, e-mail messaging; and single-number reach. The service costs $20 per seat per year for the four components, plus a one-time charge of $10 per seat for Amteva’s open middleware framework.
The software solution also will allow someone who receives a voice-mail message with call-back number to return the call and then return, without skipping a beat, to listening to the other messages left, said Richard Hyatt, senior vice president of sales and marketing. The fax-notification alert allows the recipient to redirect the full text to a desired end point.
Hyatt said the messaging solution, which is based on open standards, is scalable to millions of users and meets carrier-class requirements for 99.99-percent availability. It also provides “a distributed, object-based framework with native support for all major industry standards” so that network providers can protect their IP infrastructure investments, the company said.
Unified Messaging Plus has been adopted by AT&T Labs and systems integrator Maxwell Technologies. It has been selected for deployment by iSCAN L.P.
“Unified Messaging Plus is supported by Sun Microsystems Inc. and leverages the new Troopers ISP software from Netscape Communications Corp.,” Amteva said.
