NMS Announces Winners of Open Access Application Challenge

CHICAGO , IL - Three winners were selected by people's choice voting on the NMS website.  These winning applications are in the spotlight at the NMS booth in the Mobility Pavilion at the SUPERCOMM 2004 show in Chicago , Illinois .

 

The winners in the category "Most Innovative Applications" are:

• Aquanta Network , NV
  Calligator - Hosted IP Centrex
  Gery Pollet, Director, Aquanta
• Personeta, Inc.
  TaapS - Hosted automated attendant
  Avraham Rosenbach, Executive VP and GM of Personeta Israel
• Vapps, Inc.
  Conference Bridge 1000
  Ben Lilienthal, C.E.O. Vapps                                                               

The Vapps Conferencing Bridge 1000 facilitates the seamless exchange of information. A modular software and hardware solution, the product enables service providers and large enterprises to reliably and continuously provision conference calls using Voice over IP ("VoIP"). The product uses the NMS CG 6000 and CG 6500 Open Access products.

 

The Aquanta Calligator is an advanced communications service that integrates telephone service with the Internet, while also supporting faxing and SMS messaging. Calligator gives you a gamut of options to enable you to communicate more easily and affordably. The product uses NMS AG-4000 and CG-6000 Open Access products.

 

The Personeta TaapSTM  is a hosted application that delivers Automated-Attendant features over the network.  It is designed as a basic application with enhanced features that can be layered for extra value-add, and includes Web and IVR-based customer self-provisioning for lower service provider operating costs and unparalleled customization. The application uses logic running on Personeta TappS  NSC (Network Service Controller) to leverage the NMS CG Series with highly flexible network IVR functionality and a single point of management and announcement storage.

 

The Personeta TaapS was selected as best overall and winner of the Industry Experts Choice by a panel of industry experts including Hemant Taneia, principle, General Catalyst Partners, John Kelly, publisher and editor-in-chief of Speech Technology Magazine, Tom Valovic, program director, IP Telephony, IDC, and Annabel Dodd, author of The Essential Guide to Telecommunications.

 

All three of the winners, have been featured in press releases with NMS as well as winning cash prizes - including the trip to SUPERCOMM.  Personeta will also receive a  consultation with  Mr. Taneja of General Catalyst Partners, on developing a business plan for the commercialization of their award-winning application.

 

About the winners:

 

Aquanta Networks NV

Aquanta Networks NV is a "Communication Application Services Provider". Aquanta's services, available via www.calligator.com, offer every user a "personal communications center" that integrates standard and VoIP telephony, fax and SMS messaging with the Internet. These services help Aquanta's customers to increase their efficiency and to decrease their communication costs without any specific investment in hard- and/or software. Aquanta is a privately funded company based in Bruges , Belgium .

 

Aquanta Networks NV
Monnikenwerve 17/19
8000 Bruges , Belgium

http://www.aquanta.com/

www.calligator.com/en/index.html

Tel/fax : +32-2-4030700
info@aquanta.com

 

Personeta

Personeta is a leading developer of intelligent Network Service Controllers (NSCs) that enable service providers to improve profitability by delivering value-added network-based voice services such as Voice VPNs, Network Interactive Voice Response and Network Hosted PBX services. Personeta's flagship product TappSTM NSC, which is currently installed at leading service providers in North America, Europe and Israel, enables wireline and wireless carriers to deliver these services over both legacy and packet-based infrastructures, helping maximize their existing capital investment as well as facilitate the migration to packet-based networks.

 

Worldwide Office Locations
Headquarters in Naperville Illinois
RandD and European Operations in Hod Hasharon Israel
Sales Office in United Kingdom

 

http://www.personeta.com/

Tel :  +1 630-428-0055
Fax : +1 630-355-0044
Toll Free :  888-637-6275

Vapps

Vapps develops and licenses the CB1000 - an IP-based, SIP-enabled audio conferencing bridge for service providers. Using highly scaleable software,Vapps lowers the cost and increases the features for business class conferencing. Customers range from regional Conference Service Providers to multi-national telecommunication companies. 

 

More information on the company and the product is available at http://www.vappsinc.com/.

 

Vapps, Inc.

826 Broadway, Suite 900

New York , NY 10003

Tel : +1 212 505 1473