Contarra technology consists of a modular communications framework with open standards and a distributed architecture, which allows customers to choose their preferred hardware and OS platform and suppliers to scale deployments to fit any requirement.

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Contarra announces availabilityof CAMELEON XR 1.2

The Contarra ServiceDelivery Platform

Contarra introduces the Cameleon XR 1.2 Service DeliveryPlatform. The Cameleon XR product provides unmatched flexibility andpower to Service Providers to create high quality services, deployingseamless new services, with a solid and comprehensive set of OAM(Operation Administration and Management) tools. Cameleon XR combinesthe power of its graphical Application designer and Runtime environmentwith strong integration of SS7 signaling, Video 3G and Video Over IPtechnology from market leaders, in order to provide a uniqueenvironment for designing Audio and Video enabled services. Cameleon XRis the logical evolution of the Cameleon CCP 2004 and 2007 products,but with a dramatic change in the architecture of the runtime platform.The Cameleon Service Delivery Platform is a multi-layered distributedplatform where components from various layers can reside on differentmachine servers:  
 
 Application (services) defining the call flow logic
  • The MCS (MediaControl Server) which is responsible for resource utilization and callrouting
  • The MCU (MediaControl Unit), a Unit responsible for controlling a specific technologyresource provider (Telecom board, Speech Engine, ...).
  • There is one specificMCU per technology supported.
The new architecture ofCameleon XR introduces a new license server which allows severalresource Servers (such as MCSes) to share licenses. To meet Carriergrade requirements the license server can be put in redundant modewhere a backup server take over a primary server that fails, allowingcontinuity of service with no down time. With the OAM SDK, Cameleon XRpushes the limits of openness and allows 3rd Party products tocompletely administer the platform. The extensive event reportingmechanism, the fault resilience features, strong technology integrationand the unique application development tools make Cameleon XR the idealplatform for Application Service Providers.  

 

Backward compatibility

Demo License available for evaluation

Highlights on Key Features of Cameleon XR1.2

3rdParty Product Integration

 

Backward Compatibility

This version 1.2 isbackwardcompatible with applications developed with previous versions ofCameleon XR 1.1.Applications developed under previous versions need to be recompiledwith 1.2 torun properly.

Demolicense available for evaluation

The Cameleon XR packagecomes with a demo license limited to 2 hours of continuous run-time andwith the following features enabled:

Thefree Graphical Application Designer

integrating the popularCTTalk language that gives even more possibilities on top of thegraphical components to build professional Telecom services/applications

Thefree OAM GUI 

allowing Remote fullcontrol for  administration monitoring and maintenance over one ormultiple platforms

3 simultaneousstandard applications 

Applications can beeither written with the Application designer or the application C/C++SDK

1 VoiceXML Engine

A powerful VoiceXML 2.1compliant, one instance of the engine running at a time in demo license

3 simultaneouscalls

Applications canprocess a maximum of 3 simultaneous calls on the entire platform

3 simultaneous MCU 

Up to 3 MCUs canbe started (example: one board vendor, one TTS, one ASR), among theMCUs supported by the platform for the different technology vendors(for a list of MCUs for supported vendors, refer to Cameleon XRstandard documentation)

Conferencing,ASR, TTS 

ExtendedConferencing, Speech Recognition and Text to Speech enabled, next tobasic media processing functionality such as play, record, DTMF

Inter-ChassisCall Bridging, Voice over IP

Non-blocking switchingallowed with inter-chassis switching capability and Voice Over IP, aswell as basic Inbound and Outbound calls, Call Bridging

Distributedarchitecture 

This featureallows for different components to be spread on multiple servers(example: applications on one server, MCS and MCUs on different server,Remote Administration from another desktop)

SS7, ISDN networksupport

For Carrier Grade withSS7 and SS7 redundancy platform networks. This allows evaluation, ProofOf Concept and test of the platform with the demo license beforecommitting to a large investment

MCS redundancy

Allows for reliable andfault resilient architecture. This feature demonstrate the ability forthe CCP main server to recover from failure in a dual redundantconfiguration

Highlights on Key features of Cameleon XR 1.2

NewVoice Browser with support for VXML 2.1 and CCXML 1.0

Anew Voice Browser module supports VXML 2.1 and introduces support forCCXML 1.0.This is a complete new runtime engine that runs VXML and CCXMLapplications.

Supportof WINE to run Big Browser in Linux environment

BigBrowser has been enhanced to support running under WINE environment onLinux.

Support of WINE torunApplication Designer  in Linux environment

GraphicalApplication Designer  has been enhanced to support running underWINEenvironment on Linux.

Support ofContinuous SpeechProcessing in Dialogic MCU

Anenhancement in Dialogic GC MCU allows for support of CSP feature withDialogicboards.

NMS SS7identification of 3GVideo Calls

Improvementsin NMS SS7 MCU to detect Video 3G calls as such and to allow processingthemaccordingly.

Support of CallTransfer inSIP MCU

Contarra SIP MCU now supports CallTransfer.

IFlyTek TTS MCU supportfor SDKversion 1.2

IFlyTek TTS MCU has beenupdated to support latest 1.2 SDK version.

Non intrusiveconferencing onDialogic boards

This new featureallows setting up a conference in listen mode while two calls arebridgedtogether. This is very useful for call supervision and/or conversationrecording.

NewTelisma ASR MCUsupport for version 2.0

Telisma ASR MCU has been updated tosupportlatest version 2.0 of Telisma engine.

A new ODBC DBMS module

The newDBMS is based on GSODBC and is much more stable and powerful than thepreviousone.

Nuance Recognizer MCUsupport forversion 9

Nuance ASR MCU has beenupdated to support latest Nuance Recognizer engine version 9.

MCU Synway support forSS7-ISUP

Synway MCU has been enhanced to supportSS7-ISUPsignaling

Aculab MCU support forProsody S

AculabMCU has been enhanced to support Prosody S (Host media processing).

In Big Browser refresh isoptimized

Refresh command in BigBrowser only refreshes the active window and maintains the currentlayout/selected item(s).

MCS Loggingimproved and reviewed

Loggingin MCS has been improved in order to have readable informationdepending on thelevel of the logging.

3rd Party Product Integration

Cameleon XRintegrates 3rd party technologies from market leaders in voice andvideo processing, ISDN,CAS, SS7 Signaling as well as software enginesfor Host Media Processing, Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis. Thefollowing is a the list of the interface modules (MCUs) to the 3rdParty technologies. Cameleon XR supports latest versions available fromthe vendors.

Signaling and Media resources

 

MCU Provider SupportedOS Supportedversions
MCUDiva Dialogic Windows
Linux
Diva Server for Windows 2000/XP/2003 Version 8.3 +dssdk.dll 4.0.
Diva Server for Linux - Diva Server for Linux version 8.3
. Dist:dssdk-gcc3x-107.708-1.i386.rpm.
Diva Server SoftIP version 2.
1.
MCUDialogic Dialogic

Windows
Linux

All.
Recommended version: Windows: SR 6.0, SR 6.1.Linux: SR 6.1
MCU Dialogic HMP Dialogic Windows
Linux
Windows: Dialogic HMP SU #195 for Windows
Linux: Dialogic HMP SU #187 for Linux
MCU Dialogic SS7 Dialogic Windows
Linux
SS7 Development Package for Windows - V5.01
SS7 Development Package for Linux - V5.05
MCU NMS Dialogic Windows
Linux

Windows:
NA 2005-1 SP
5
VideoAccess 3.1
Linux:
NA 2005-1 SP3

Video Access 3.1

MCUNMS SS7 Dialogic Windows
Linux
Windows: SS7 4.3
Linux: SS7 4.3
MCUNMS MRCP Dialogic Windows
Universal Speech Access 1.1
MCUAculab Aculab Windows
Driver version: 6.4.54
Prosody_S: 2.4.0.3 (3rd Dec 2007)
MCUPika Pika technologies Windows MonteCarlo version 5.7
MCUKallastra Kallastra Windows
Linux
Windows: Kallastra drivers 6.0
Linux: Kallastra drivers
6.0
MCUBrooktrout Dialogic Windows
Windows: V3.2.2 for TR1000 series.
MCURadisys Radisys Windows
Linux
MSML 1.1, MOML 1.0
MCUSynway Synway Windows Drivers 5.0.2.0
MCU SIP Based on the GNU oSIP library Windows
Linux
v3.1

Voice recognition

 

MCU Provider SupportedOS Supportedversions
MCUNuance ASR Nuance Windows
Nuance 9
MCU Nuance Recognizer Nuance Windows Nuance Recognizer 9
MCUOSR Nuance Windows
Linux
Windows: OpenSpeech Recognizer 3.0.2
Linux: OpenSpeech Recognizer 3.0.1
MCU InfoTalk ASR InfoTalk Windows
InfoTalk-Recognizer 8.2
MCUtelisma ASR telisma Windows
telispeech 2.0

Text To Speech

 

MCU Provider Supported OS Supported versions
MCURealSpeak TTS Nuance Windows
RealSpeak 4
MCUInfoTalk TTS InfoTalk Windows
InfoTalk-Speaker 2.x
MCULoquendo TTS Loquendo Windows
Loquendo TTS 5.5
MCU iFlyTekTTS iFLYTEK Windows
iFLYTEK InterPhonic CE 3.0