Covergence launches Session Manager VoIP middleware

Covergence, the Maynard, Mass.-based VoIP software solutions firm, announced its Session Manager product. The Covergence Session Manager (CSM) is middleware that can connect with many different vendors' PBXes to virtualize a company's voice assets for integration into web applications and cost reduction.

CSM moves routing, control, interoperability and monitoring out of individual PBXs and into the manager for centralized handling using IP and VoIP. It also boasts Web 2.0 capabilities that allow for the integration of voice and presence into application and is compatible with Google Gadgets and IBM sMash for the design of customized applications without technical experience.

"The CSM eliminates PSTN charges, consolidates PBXs and allows for web developers to embed voice easily in applications," said Rod Hodgman, vice president of marketing for Covergence. "We're targeting the Global 1000 companies with the Session Manager, because some of them have hundreds of PBXs in many different locations, often with different vendors. The Session Manager takes those hundreds of islands of communications, puts them all on IP, and integrates them into a cohesive, unified system."

CSM will be delivered in three different packaging models, and is available both as a hardware appliance and as a software-only application.

For more:
- see the Covergence information about Session Manager here 

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