SAN DIEGO--Brooktrout and Excel today unveiled their new company name--Cantata Technologies--and a new branding campaign, along with a key partnership with BEA technologies.

The two merging companies chose the name Cantata was chosen for multiple reasons, said Peter Vescuso, vice president of marketing. Because of its musical roots, it is an international term and connotes a composition that is more than the sum of its parts, and has multimedia associations as well, he said.

Cantata and BEA have already done interoperability testing between BEA’s application platform and Cantata’s media resource function, Vescuso said, paving the way for IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) deployments in the service provider arena.

“BEA is known for being very aggressive in the service provider space, which is one of the reasons we’ve chosen to partner with them,” he said.

Cantata is making a two-port version of its media server available for free downloads from its Web site--www.cantata.com--and BEA is providing a number of demo applications for the server, Vescuso said.

“This is available also for developers who want to test out our leading IP-based media server available via software--it runs on standard Linux,” he said. “It is also a way for us to try to make our technology more available and more pervasive.”

Cantata combines tried and true products such as Excel’s CSP 90, a converged services platform which supports SIP, ISDN, and SS7 signaling and the Snowshore IP media server, which Brooktrout acquired with its purchase of Snowshore Networks, Vescuso said.

“We can support any development style, any service, any range of scalability from the low-end at two-ports up to very high density, with five nines reliability,” he said. “We want to be a leading provider of enabling technology--we don’t make applications, we make app development better.”