Jumpstart Your MMOG
Viox and partners reveal voice solution for online games.
Date: Friday, March 09, 2007
Author: James Fudge

Vivox, IBM and OGSi, this week introduced its Jumpstart Program to simplify the process of launching voice-enabled online games. The Jumpstart Program is designed to provide game developers with a powerful and streamlined communications development environment combining server hardware, game hosting, and integrated voice chat services. This program combines premiere integrated voice technology from Vivox with OGSi's proven hosted services and IBM BladeCenter servers.

Online game developers will now be able to rapidly integrate voice into their games and reap the benefits of a high-quality beta testing environment at no additional cost. You can learn more about Jumpstart by checking out www.vivox.com .

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