to VoIP without giving up TDM phone system features. The network elements.

Allworx 9102 office phone (US$225) for low call volumes, has Cantata Technology ( www.cantata.com), the grand melding of two programmable feature keys. The 9102 has nearly all the fea- Excel Switching Corporation and Brooktrout Technology, made tures of the Allworx 9112 VoIP-based phone, including Allworx’ its appearance at the show (they also threw a terrific party). “plug-and-play” remote capabilities in a two-line configuration. Among their many announcements: They introduced a new ver-Allworx Call Assistant software works in conjunction with any sion of the Cantata software-based SnowShore IP Media Server, Allworx phone and eliminates the need to purchase an expen- optimized for 3G wireless and IMS applications. It supports sive, bulky attendant phone to get enterprise attendant func- VoiceXML 2.0 technology, text-to-speech and automatic speech tions. Price is US$650 for Allworx 6x customers and at $850 for recognition (TTS/ASR) for advanced speech-driven applications Allworx 10x customers (including a one-time licensing fee for using MRCP to control resources from speech servers. Canata unlimited users). Allworx also announced a 30% price reduc- also announced the launch of its Cantata Partner Program, the tion on its Allworx 9112 VoIP 12-line phone. next-gen successor to Excel’s “Excel Partner Program” and

Apex Voice Communications ( www.apexvoice.com), now Brooktrout’s “Partner Access Network.” Finally, Cantata an-subtitled “the Server Application Company,” offers free down- nounced that BEA Systems has expanded its partnership with loads of their multi-services platform software for building IVR Cantata, having completed interoperability testing for Cantata’s and enhanced services. With OmniVox3D, and its integrated SnowShore IP Media Server and BEA WebLogic SIP Server, a OmniView OAM&P service creation environment, designing, converged Java EE-SIP-IMS application server component of the developing, deploying and managing your solutions is reduced BEA WebLogic Communications Platform product family. to simply dragging and dropping icons. Codenomicon ( www.codenomicon.com) announced availabil-

Brix Networks ( www.brixnet.com) and Allied Telesyn ( www.ity of its comprehensive solution for testing all levels of VoIP alliedtelesyn.com) announced performance measurement in- systems. This new Codenomicon family of VoIP tools will en-teroperability using the Two-way Active Measurement Protocol able vendors and companies deploying solutions in the VoIP (TWAMP), a draft standard by the IETF IP Performance Metrics market to achieve a necessary level of testing to ensure that (IPPM) working group. TWAMP is the first open standard pro- their solutions are secure and robust. tocol enabling accessibility of IP performance metrics and pro- CounterPath Solutions ( www.counterpath.com), formerly vides two-way, or round-trip, measurements between various Xten Networks, introduced a new version of eyeBeam, its SIP-