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NMS Communications today unveiled new SS7 hardware and software solutions to help developers meet increasing demand for revenue-generating IP-based services like VoIP, mobile video and voice SMS. The new NMS products � SS7 5.0 software and TX 5000E Series hardware � support the SIGTRAN and BICC protocols and the PCI Express form factor. This will now allow network operators to migrate from legacy time division multiplexing (TDM) networks to next-generation IP networks. The new products extend the NMS Open Access family of SS7-enabled media boards and software to give users a single development platform with the ease of use and flexibility developers need to create applications that will work on both legacy TDM and IP networks. The software and hardware reduce the custom coding, costly testing and other headaches developers typically face while building services like PSTN and IP call centers, ringback tones, interactive voice response and video gateway-video play/record. Homisco Inc., which provides pre-paid and postpaid billing, messaging and interactive voice response (IVR) applications and services to network carriers worldwide, plans to migrate its services to IP using NMS�s SIGTRAN offering. A longtime NMS customer, Homisco places a high premium on NMS product reliability and the ease of integrating them into Homisco applications. �We�re implementing the new NMS software because our customers are starting to run softswitches and they are asking us to have SIGTRAN solutions,� said Homisco Product Manager Jim Murphy. �We have a long history with NMS, so we were confident going with them again. Reliability is critical to us because we have equipment installed all over the world. I need to know that a board isn�t going to fail in Cambodia because I can�t get anyone there fast to fix it. We don�t have to worry about that with NMS. They are proactive and send patches before our customers even experience an issue.� The new SS7-enabled software and hardware solution delivers a range of time-, effort- and cost-saving benefits: eased migration � allows existing NMS customers to easily support SS7 over IP, and/or migrate to the PCI Express form factor. Customers new to NMS need only learn one development environment to support SS7 over either TDM or IP networks; reduced costs � uses commodity IP network connections versus expensive, throughput-constrained T1/E1-based SS7 networks; flexible development � developers now have both media processing and SS7 signaling products in a PCI Express form factor (as well as PCI and cPCI); performance options � developers only pay for the performance they need. The TX 5000E Series comes in basic or high-performance platforms; and, comprehensive SS7 protocol stack support that now includes MTP, SIGTRAN, ISUP, TUP, SCCP, and TCAP. �Widespread adoption of IP architectures has been slowed because mobile application developers still have to work too hard,� said Jamie Warter, vice president of marketing at NMS Communications. �These new products give them the intelligent media processing and signaling software and hardware they need to build applications that will allow operators to be first to market with new IP-based revenue opportunities.� About NMS Communications NMS Communications, a division of NMS Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NMSS), provides enabling technology and tools for the rapid development and deployment of value-added services on mobile and converged networks. From�traditional voice mail and interactive voice response systems to ringback tones, voice SMS, and interactive mobile video, NMS platforms are used around the world as the foundation for a wide range of revenue-generating video, voice and data applications.�Visit www.nmscommunications.com for more information. NMS Communications is a trademark of NMS Communications Corporation. All other brand or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.