Octel Communications Corp has begun to deliver on the corporate roadmap it announced in July with a demonstration at Telecom 95 in Geneva of its new Intelligent Messaging Architecture which is designed to offer service providers a flexible and powerful environment for developing enhanced services such as integrated voice mail and electronic mail, video messaging and personal assistant services. Subscribers will be able to access messages in any medium from a single point such as a telephone or a personal computer. Octel claims the Intelligent Messaging Architecture client-server architecture also provides an application development environment that enables service providers to integrate and manage new technologies such as speech synthesis algorithms, voice activated dialling or video servers quickly and flexibly. It is now in beta test and is due for release next year.