[March 30, 2004] NEC Brazil and VocalData Join Forces to Capitalize on the Quickly Growing Next-Generation VoIP Opportunity in Brazil SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- March 30, 2004 -- NEC Brazil Will Act as Systems Integrator and Reseller for VocalData in Brazilian Market VocalData, Inc., an application developer of hosted IP telephony solutions, and NEC Brazil today announced that they have formed a strategic relationship to deliver advanced VoIP solutions to service providers in the Brazilian telecom market. Under the terms of the agreement, NEC Brazil will offer VocalData's leading application server to its service provider customers in Brazil -- acting both as a systems integrator for those companies and as a reseller for VocalData. NEC Brazil and VocalData are already in joint trials with several Tier 1 and emerging players in Brazil. Driven by competition-enhancing regulations, the incumbent landline service providers are turning to VoIP to offer telephony services within their competitors' markets. Concurrently, long-distance and international voice carriers, as well as traditional data service providers, are starting to deploy IP-based voice networks with the goal of entering the local residential and corporate markets. These trends are certain to increase competition in Brazil and speed up the availability and adoption of enhanced voice services. VocalData's partnership with NEC Brazil further expands VocalData's already impressive global reach, which today includes service providers from Asia, North America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand. VocalData's leading application server supports high-quality hosted IP telephony applications for telecom carriers worldwide, enabling them to reliably and cost-effectively deliver voice-over-IP solutions. VocalData today supports more than 150,000 deployed enhanced IP telephony lines, both business and residential. We looked at many IP application servers in our quest to offer a carrier class Hosted IP Telephony solution for service providers in Brazil, and VocalData's application server stood out from the pack because of its superior scalability and its versatility, said Herberto Macoto Yamamuro, director of NEC Brazil's Carrier and Corporate Solution Business Unit. For instance, VocalData is the only hosted IP telephony provider to support both standard IP protocols such as SIP and MGCP as well as prevalent proprietary protocols such as SCCP and MiNET -- thus delivering the greatest equipment choice to our service provider customers and their end users. It also easily integrates with both legacy and next-generation equipment to ease the VoIP migration process for Brazilian service providers and their enterprise customers. Founded in 1968, NEC Brazil is one of the leading suppliers of telecommunications equipment and related services in the country. NEC Brazil has a strong presence in the existing PBX market in Brazil and strong relationships with many service providers within the market. In the past few years, NEC Brazil has refocused its efforts on delivering data solutions and broadband-based services, with the goal of providing end-to-end, customized broadband solutions to corporations, carriers and the government. Today, NEC Brazil has proven expertise in various technology fields such as IP DSLAM, Metro Ethernet, Core IP and Access. Its services include business planning and consulting, installation and integration, network management and after sales support. NEC Brazil's in-depth market knowledge, its ability to manage complex customer projects and its growing list of partners make the company one of the leaders in the fast-growing Brazilian market, said Michael Camp, president and CEO of VocalData. VocalData's relationship with NEC Brazil not only validates the superiority of our hosted IP telephony solution, it also gives us a local connection through which we can better support our customers in the Brazilian market. About NEC Brazil NEC Brazil is a leading provider of telecommunications and IT solutions for carriers, enterprises and governments. NEC Brazil also develops special projects such as high performance computing and post office automation. With more than 35 years of experience in the local market, NEC Brazil implemented various technological innovations, mainly in telephony. The company offers end-to-end advanced communication solutions integrating voice, data and video; data networks (LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN); IT professional services, IP PBX products; videoconferencing, broadband and contact center solutions. NEC Brazil is a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, one of the world's leading patent-producing companies employing more than 140,000 people worldwide and with net sales of approximately $40 billion in the fiscal year ended March 2003. For additional information, please visit NEC Brazil home page at www.nec.com.br. About VocalData VocalData, Inc. provides an integrated suite of hosted IP telephony applications that enable service providers to reliably and cost-effectively deliver voice-over-IP solutions. VocalData's award-winning application server is a comprehensive set of hosted PBX and IP Centrex applications that delivers higher value telephony services to business customers, while reducing the costs associated with traditional PBX telephony systems. Through its more than 30 customers and broad partner base, VocalData supports more than 150,000 deployed enhanced IP telephony lines today. VocalData was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX. For more information, visit www.vocaldata.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]