Metreos Announces Version 2.2 Release of VoIP Application Environment; SIP Support Enables Application Ecosystem Built On Open Standards.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Metreos Corporation, the leader in the Voice over IP (VoIP) application environment market, today announced at VoiceCon Spring 2006 that it has released a major upgrade to its flagship Metreos 2400 VoIP application environment. The new version adds support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to the environment and enables the development of a vibrant VoIP application ecosystem for the SIP standards-based VoIP infrastructure market.

"Metreos continues to rapidly build our customer base and momentum and to enhance our leadership position in the VoIP application environment market," said Joel Fontenot, CEO of Metreos. "We are excited about the promise of SIP to enable applications to seamlessly run across heterogeneous IP telephony environments. This new release of our platform delivers the industry's only complete VoIP application environment with full SIP support."

The new version 2.2 of the Metreos 2400 VoIP application environment includes many improvements and new features. Some of the more important new capabilities include:

 
--  Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Support 
        Metreos seamlessly integrates support for SIP into the Metreos 
        Application Runtime, adding to a growing list of supported 
        call control protocols that includes H.323, SCCP, JTAPI, and 
        H.323. As with all call control protocols supported by the 
        Metreos environment, SIP is entirely abstracted for the 
        developer and interoperates seamlessly with all applications 
        built to run on the Metreos platform. 
 
    --  Cisco CallManager 4.2 and 5.0 Support 
        Metreos adds support for the latest releases of Cisco's IP 
        PBX, including the CallManager 5.0 release that now also 
        supports SIP. All interfaces to CallManager have been updated 
        to be compatible with these new releases enabling a seamless 
        migration path for all applications built on previous versions 
        of the Metreos application environment. 
 
    --  SIP-Enabled Application Suite 
        Popular Metreos packaged applications such as ActiveRelay, 
        VoiceTunnel, ClickToTalk and RapidRecord can now be deployed 
        using SIP on a standards-based, multi-vendor IP telephony 
        infrastructure. 
 
    --  Speech Recognition 
        Metreos adds speech recognition to the Metreos Media Engine, 
        adding to a growing list of sophisticated media processing 
        capabilities such as conferencing, prompt processing, 
        peer-to-peer media and text-to-speech. Developers can now take 
        advantage of integrated, easy-to-use speech recognition media 
        processing when building applications -- for example, to 
        recognize a spoken account code rather than requiring a user 
        to enter the account code using a ...