The Star Online : DVM launches Genico broadband telephony

The Star Online : TechCentral - Malaysia Technology:

DVM Technology Bhd has come up with a new broadband telephony solution known as Genico Broadband Telephony, which they claim is the first complete class of carrier-grade broadband Internet Protocol (IP) telephony solution suite.

Although it has been in service for several months, DVM only officially launched it last week.

They are offering the solution suite to telcos, mobile operators, network service providers and Internet service providers in various countries.

DVM Technology executive director Chen Chee Peng said that the suite is complete because it comes with back-end systems, middleware and front-end clients.

?Being complete is a very important distinction in the telco industry as other solutions are focused only on the back-end or front-end,? he continued, adding that this contributes to efforts in branding Malaysia as a technology exporter.

He claims that the suite, which uses globally accepted communication standards like Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) RFC3261 and Internet Protocol Multimedia Services (IMS), can be used like a ?plug-in? while preserving existing telco infrastructures.

?The suite is interoperable with major types of SIP-compliant voice gateways in the market. This speaks enormous volumes about its ability to fit in any telco's infrastructure,? said DVM chief technology officer Owen Chen.

For consumers, DVM demonstrated their end-user application LiveContact using Jaring as the service provider to show it can be used to enable two-way voice and video communication with most standard communication devices.

?LiveContact enables voice calls to be made or received from PCs, Global System for Mobile (GSM), and fixed-line phones. In addition, it offers voice and video conferencing between PCs, PDAs, GSM and fixed-line phones,? Owen said.

For example, a person using a PC can call someone on mobile phone and vice-versa ? if either device has a camera, then voice conferencing can also be enabled.

LiveContact is only available for Windows-based PCs currently, but DVM plans to release versions for PDAs and 3G phones next year.