Indiantelevision.com's Digital Edge: One97 Comms, HP partner for enhanced voice solutions

Indiantelevision.com's Digital Edge

One97 Comms, HP partner for enhanced voice solutions

Indiantelevision.com Team

(25 May 2007 5:15 pm)

MUMBAI: One97 Communications, a telecom solutions provider, will partner with Hewlett-Packard (HP) for setting up of a laboratory to research and develop technologies and applications for the 2.5G and 3G networks for the Indian and global markets.

HP will provide high quality mobile and ready to install applications for One97 Communications. The R&D at the new laboratory will focus on creating applications for deployment and integration of HP platform with existing telecom networks including development of VAS applications.

The research lab is powered by HP's Open Call Media Platform (OPMG), which has a comprehensive and mature voice service platform in the industry. HP OPMG enables rapid development and secure deployment of next-generation voice and video messaging, portals and enhanced interactive services, informs an official release.

One97 communications managing director Vijay Shekhar Sharma said, "One97's vision and focus entails becoming a global VAS enabler. Partnership with HP provides us with the latest developments in network platforms and access to their worldwide support services to help build our unrivalled capability as a global telecom VAS service provider."

"We chose to partner with One97 Communications as they have a proven record of leadership in developing and executing innovative applications that cater to market requirements. HP is the global leader in the supply of 3G technological platforms and this relationship helps showcase this prowess," said HP software executive director T Srinivasan.

HP OCMP supports development of the VoiceXML applications and IP multimedia subsystem based services with its media resource function capabilities including next-generation voice mail, mass alarming and alerting, 3G video capabilities, personalized ring-back tone, video messaging and others. HP OCMP integrates with existing network architectures, allowing service providers to rapidly capitalise on near-term business opportunities such as large-scale interactive voice response (IVR) applications, unified messaging, virtual call centers and entertainment services.