Project #2: Broadband Telephony Software Development
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A. Project #2: Scientific or Technological Objectives
[*A.1*] _What are the scientific or technological objectives, in quantitative or verifiable terms, of the work being claimed? Where possible, identify the indicators, constraints or measures that you must meet to consider your work a success. Identify the milestones, benchmarks, results, or metrics that you will use to prove out your new technologies, technological improvements, solutions, or scientific [advancements.\_]
InGenius has been working with Westell, a Chicago based hardware manufacturer. InGenius realized that the new broadband telephony hardware being developed by Westell is lacking some sophisticated telephony features that they and their customers will need. Our company was uniquely positioned to develop these capabilities due to our prior exposure to that hardware on another project. The device is called the Westell Media Gateway, or WMG.
In particular our objectives were to:
- Add VoIP (voice over internet protocol) support to the WMG that was up-till-now only capable of supporting analog telephony.
- Add multi-handset support to the WMG that had previously only been able to support one handset.
- Update the man-machine interface (MMI) of the WMG to support VoIP and Multi-handset.
- Develop a Digital European Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) Application Programming Interface (API) which will allow the WMG to support DECT handsets and DECT hardware, and will make it easy for third-party developers to develop telephony applications that will support advanced telephony features on the hardware.
- - Telephony Applications - develop and test algorithms to speed up the display of telephony screens on the WMG.
- - Application Development - develop applications for service providers worldwide to run on the WMG to support advanced telephony features such as shopping, advertising, news, weather, sports, and traffic information.
