AGNITY Debuts Web 2.0 Calling Application for Carrier-Branded, Online Voice Services

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AGNITY, a leading technology and consulting services company for communications and enterprise applications, today announced the availability of AGNITY® ACONYX SPIDYR™ Phone, a web-based, browser-independent calling application for residential and business customers. The multimedia application supports all standard voice calling features and integrates with subscriber’s personal and network address book.

ACONYX SPIDYR Phone is an open solution with standard protocols and APIs for rapid system integration with application servers, Web 2.0 applications and existing services. The turnkey solution is provided with carrier-branded web phone interface and customizable web portal. The easy-to-use, feature-rich web interface requires no installation or configuration of any client software, thus enhancing the overall security and TCO for the end user. Easily accessible online, using Web browsers on any computer at any time, the SPIDYR Phone provides improved convenience for frequent travelers.

Service providers can offer enterprise customers, small businesses and residential subscribers with basic broadband internet connectivity a convenient and cost-effective web-based calling service with no equipment to purchase and support and no custom software installed on client computers. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach reduces operational expense for the service provider and enables carriers to compete with Skype-type services by providing a Web-based voice portal with guaranteed quality of service.

Said AGNITY CEO Sanjeev Chawla, “In our increasingly mobile and virtual world, the flexibility and convenience of Web 2.0 applications helps businesses, as well as consumers, transform and improve the way they communicate. Providing applications like the SPIDYR web phone, service providers can offer their subscribers convenient, easy-to-use voice and data services, giving them the flexibility they need in their work, travel and daily communications.”

Developed using AGNITY’s carrier-grade ACONYX components, the SPIDYR Phone delivers high availability and scalability to support millions of subscribers. ACONYX SPIDYR Phone is a deployment-ready service offering that opens up new ways for generating additional revenue from advertising, prepaid service and a phased-in approach to additional value-add features such as Web and video conferencing.

Reviewing the SPIDYR Phone capabilities, industry veteran and Chairman of SIP Forum Eric Burger said, “What we’ve seen recently is a wave of sophisticated applications being brought to market by agile, innovative companies, like AGNITY, who take advantage of Web 2.0 and SIP protocols to deliver carrier-class products that providers and consumers want and need. With increasingly mobile lifestyles, people are demanding ease-of-use, convenience and device flexibility, which products like the new SPIDYR Phone deliver to the end user.”

Key features of the web-based SPIDYR Phone include: customizable user interface branding, no firewall configuration, incoming and outgoing call history, personalized address books, ringtone selection and presence support. AGNITY SPIDYR phone is ideally suited to be embedded in third-party portals and seamlessly integrates with Web 2.0 applications in both IMS and non-IMS environments. AGNITY has plans to enhance the service offering by adding incremental features in next product release including integration with instant messaging, conferencing and video calling later this year.

About AGNITY, Inc.

AGNITY is a global technology and consulting services company dedicated to helping businesses, network equipment manufacturers and service providers design, develop and deploy application solutions. AGNITY ACONYX™ is the industry’s leading Service-Oriented Communications Architecture (SOCA) enabling communication service components to be rapidly and cost-effectively deployed within the applications infrastructure. With locations in Silicon Valley, Plano, Toronto and Noida, AGNITY is one of the only companies of its kind providing global support exclusively on application design, solution development and application migration and deployment. For more information, visit www.agnity.com.