Friday, April 3, 2009

CounterPath Announces Messaging Convergence Gateway to Enable SMS between VoIP and Mobile Subscribers

CounterPath Corporation, a leading provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software products and solutions, announced the general availability of its Messaging Convergence Gateway (MCG). The MCG is a carrier-based, core-network messaging server that bridges VoIP and mobile networks' Short Messaging Service (SMS) infrastructure. With the MCG, service providers can enable their VoIP softphone subscribers to send and receive SMS text messages to and from mobile phone numbers by adding a non-intrusive gateway component to their existing infrastructure.

The MCG is advised for anchored VoIP systems with assigned blast numbers. Once deployed in the VoIP abettor network, the MCG allows two-way argument advice amid CounterPath's Bria softphone and adaptable devices. Deployed in this manner, there is no charge to carbon the adaptable operator's SMS infrastructure, as neither a Messaging Account Centre (SMSC), or Home Location Register (HLR), is required. This abundantly reduces basic amount and complication for rolling out SMS casework to VoIP users and provides an added acquirement befalling for account providers.

Additional allowances to account providers accommodate greater acceptance and delicacy of their softphone casework and affluence of implementation. Consumers account from decidedly added automated communications: they no best accept to leave their PCs to accelerate and accept argument letters with their adaptable contacts and the texting acquaintance is added based on automatic affiliation with the CounterPath softphone.

The MCG is congenital on the aforementioned belvedere as CounterPath's Arrangement Convergence Aperture (NCG) offering. Account providers who appetite to aerate the amount of a absolutely deployed Anchored Adaptable Convergence (FMC) band-aid can apparatus the NCG to extend single-number adaptable voice, text, multimedia messaging and video casework to residential, accumulated and hotspot locations with broadband access.

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