Telefonica Moviles Espana Selects Telenity and Datatronics

BARCELONA, Spain - Telefonica Moviles Espana (TME), the mobile operator of Telefonica in the Spanish market, selected Telenity and Datatronics for commercial deployment of next generation convergent services platform and services to a subscriber base of over 21 million in Spain.

Telefonica Moviles Espana selected Telenity and Datatronics solution from a group based on a trial of Telenity's Canvas TAS, Telecom Application Server a component of Canvas CSP, Converged Services Platform and four next generation services including:

• Video Call Access Services - Video mail, Video mail with VoiceXML
• Voice Access Services - Voice directory service with VoiceXML
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based personalized ringback tones
• SIP based roamers call back service

Telenity's Canvas TAS, Telecom Application Server will be deployed as the new Multidomain Intelligent Peripheral Node in Telefonica's convergent network. The initial solution, which consists of a lab system and a pre-production system, will have a capacity of 8,000 calls (BCH) and 10,000 USSDs (BCH) in a multidomain circuit-switched and SIP environment with automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities.

"The next generation service delivery solution from Telenity and Datatronics is part of our strategic plan to move to an IP Multimedia System (IMS)-based convergent network environment," said Jose Gallego, director of Network Developments at Telefonica. "We selected the Telenity and Datatronics solution because we are confident in their vast telecom experience, the scalability, flexibility and the interoperability of the solution, and their expert teams that will provide the support and services we require."