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BeVocal and iBasis Connect To Expand VoiceXML Development in Europe
URL(s): cafe.bevocal.com
LONDON, April 23, 2001--
BeVocal Leverages iBasis' Global VoIP Network to Provide Software
Tools and Local Access to European Speech Application Developers
EUROPEAN VOICE PORTAL SUMMIT--BeVocal, an award-winning provider of voice infrastructure software, applications and services,
and iBasis, Inc., (Nasdaq: IBAS), the leader in advanced Internet-based voice communications today announced that BeVocal will use The
iBasis Network to provide European speech application developers with local access to BeVocal's advanced speech application development
environment. The relationship with iBasis enables BeVocal to combine the powerful development tools and resources of the BeVocal Cafe, a
leading VoiceXML development environment, with the carrier-class quality and global reach of The iBasis Network, the world's largest
international Cisco Powered Network for Internet telephony.
Benefits to VoiceXML Developers
The BeVocal-iBasis relationship offers speech application developers European telephone number access to the BeVocal Cafe, delivering
significant cost-savings for European developers who want to use the BeVocal Cafe to test and demonstrate applications for customers. Using
the service, developers will incur ordinary telephone charges for dialing into the U.K. access number on the iBasis VoIP network. iBasis will then
provide long-distance voice service from the U.K. to the BeVocal Cafe data center, located in Sunnyvale, California, where the speech
applications will be hosted. These international access services are intended to encourage the development of VoiceXML applications that can
leverage the high quality VoIP infrastructure of The iBasis Network. These services are offered at no additional cost to VoiceXML developers
who want to test and demonstrate their applications. Initial availability will be in the U.K. with plans to extend services to developers in selected
cities in Europe and Asia.
Free VoiceXML Training Events
iBasis also plans to work together with BeVocal to promote VoiceXML development in Europe and will co-sponsor a series of free
VoiceXML training events for European developers beginning in London on May 17 and 18. For more information or to register for VoiceXML
training please visit http://cafe.bevocal.com.
"Our relationship with BeVocal is part of our commitment to be the leading provider of connectivity, infrastructure, and enhanced services in
the emerging speech solutions market," said Ofer Gneezy, president and CEO of iBasis. "With a VoIP infrastructure that already carries millions
of minutes of phone traffic every day for the world's largest and most demanding carriers, iBasis provides speech application developers and
their customers a global IP network optimized for the distribution of voice services and content."
"BeVocal has seen exceptional growth in the U.S. voice developer community, and currently serves registered developers in over 30
countries," said Mikael Berner, BeVocal co-founder and CEO. "With this in mind, we chose to partner with a global network provider that
could support BeVocal Cafe developers with the infrastructure they need to easily run and deploy applications in their local market, further
encouraging the international expansion of the VoiceXML developer community. Our partnership with iBasis will further extend the reach of our
developer program into worldwide markets overnight."
"The availability of hosted, global development and delivery environments is critical to the growth of speech-enabled applications and services.
We expect worldwide revenues generated from speech-enabled services delivered by mobile carriers to grow by about 130%, and revenues
from speech-enabled enterprise solutions to grow by at least 230% between 2000-2007," said Elka Popova, Program Leader, Voice/Data
Convergence, of Frost & Sullivan, a leading industry analyst firm. "With today's announcement, iBasis and BeVocal are helping VoiceXML
developers more quickly bring the benefits of speech-enabled phone services to European customers."
The iBasis Network: Carrier-Class VoIP
The iBasis Network is a robust, global platform for the delivery of IP-based communications services, including wholesale, phone-to-phone
VoIP and enhanced services, such as unified communications and speech-enabled business solutions. The company's global network delivers
IP-based voice services using Internet Telephony equipment from Cisco Systems deployed in large, carrier-class switching and application
hosting facilities called Internet Central Offices(TM), strategically located in Amsterdam, Cambridge (Mass.), Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London,
Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. The network also comprises numerous smaller
points of presence called Internet Branch Offices(TM), which play an important role in connecting providers to iBasis services. With this global
infrastructure in more than 45 countries and through its relationships with other communications providers, iBasis can provide IP-based voice
services virtually anywhere in the world. iBasis is the only provider that guarantees service quality by offering the industry's first Service Level
Agreement (SLA) for VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol). The key to maintaining the high level of quality required by the world's largest
carriers is the company's proven, proprietary Assured Quality Routing(TM) (AQR(TM)) technology. At the company's 24 x 7 Network
Operations Centers (NOC) in Burlington, Mass., USA and Hong Kong, the nerve centers of The iBasis Network, engineers continuously
monitor the global circuit-switched (PSTN) and packet-switched (IP) networks to ensure the highest quality of service to customers worldwide.
About The BeVocal Cafe
The BeVocal Cafe (http://cafe.bevocal.com/) is a free Web-based VoiceXML development environment that provides developers with a
complete set of tools and resources for creating high quality speech applications. Using the BeVocal Cafe, developers can build advanced,
scaleable speech applications using a standard Web browser and an ordinary telephone. In addition to the industry's top-ranked VoiceXML
interpreter, the BeVocal Cafe is the only VoiceXML 1.0-compliant development environment providing all of the following unique features:
support for voiceprint verification; support for local and remotely loaded Java-based SpeechObjects; pre-tuned grammars, professional audio,
and utility functions for location-based services; and sophisticated tools for usability testing and debugging of applications. In addition, BeVocal
provides extensive documentation and training for beginners and advanced VoiceXML developers.
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