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FoIP Server Solutions Provider Taps Qwest for IP Networking Services

By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor

Qwest Communications is giving a provider of FoIP server solutions a help hand to merge its voice and data services onto one platform.

 

Officials with Qwest (News - Alert) said its iQ SIP Trunk will help FaxCore customers send and receive VoIP and other data traffic across Qwest's multi-protocol label switching network.

 

According to company officials, the service is designed to work in conjunction with Qwest iQ Networking, a secure, managed, fully interoperable and scalable suite of wide area networking services.

 

Company officials said that Qwest iQ SIP Trunk offers businesses of all sizes a simple, economic way to use existing telecommunications infrastructure to converge voice and data network traffic to a single network connection.

 

'With Qwest's iQ SIP Trunk offering, we were able to simplify our network and reduce monthly recurring costs,” Tom Linhard, president, FaxCore (News - Alert), said in a statement. “This service will also enable us to introduce new services in the future as we fully shifts to a pure data environment.”

 

Chris Ancell, executive vice president, Qwest Business Markets Group said that enterprises of all sizes are looking for a safe and reliable migration path to an all-IP voice and data network that is cost-effective.

 

Ancell said that Qwest's comprehensive iQ portfolio of services, including SIP Trunk, is positioned to help businesses, government agencies and educational institutions make technological transitions easily, economically and efficiently.

 

TMCnet in September reported that Arizona State University has expanded its relationship with Qwest Communications with a five-year, $54 million communications agreement, that will save the university $1.48 million a year.

 

As part of the new contract, Qwest will manage all of ASU’s voice, data and wireless services to provide students, faculty and staff easy and efficient Internet access, voice communications and computing capabilities across the university’s four campuses. 

Qwest officials said that as strategic networking provider, the company would equip the ASU community with enhanced and reliable connectivity over a converged voice and data network that provides the foundation for a unified communications platform. 

Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney

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