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UK's Largest Academic VoIP Network Uses Quintum's Tenor Switches to Connect 50,000 Students Across 28 Universities EATONTOWN, N.J., May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- VoIP market leader Quintum Technologies today announced that Keycom, a supplier of pre-paid telephony and Internet connection and services to university students in the United Kingdom, has successfully deployed Quintum's Tenor switching platform to provide voice services to over 50,000 students across 28 universities. As a result of the deployment, Keycom has reduced the cost basis of its voice services by almost 70 percent, enabling it to fully recoup its investment in less than six months.Keycom selected Quintum's Tenor switches as its VoIP platform-of-choice after an extensive evaluation of competing products from Cisco, Pace and Storm. "The critical criteria for us were channel aggregation, real-time PSTN failover and affordability," said Keycom Operations Manager Jon Richardson. "We also needed efficient packet handling to keep our bandwidth demands to a minimum since we are the only commercial organization that can connect directly to JANET, the UK's academic data network." Keycom is a fully licensed telephony company with direct interconnect to all major UK and global voice carriers, and is also an Internet services provider (ISP). Keycom's pre-paid service helps students and their parents manage costs and avoid unexpectedly large end-of-month bills. Keycom's annual operating costs were 200,000 pounds ($358,355 USD) at one campus alone before deployment of the Tenor switches. Replacement of voice and data infrastructure at that campus cost 50,000 pounds ($89,600 USD), and resulted in operating costs of just 20,000 pounds ($35,838 USD) per year - for a first-year savings of 130,000 pounds ($232,390 USD) and a two-year ROI of 520 percent. These savings are being realized without any loss in call quality or reliability. "We are very gratified to see our technology being used so effectively to improve the economics of voice services in the academic market," said Chuck Rutledge, Quintum's vice president of marketing. "The unique efficiency and simplicity of our Tenor platform has clearly enabled Keycom to take full advantage of the business opportunities offered by VoIP." About Quintum Headquartered in Eatontown, NJ, Quintum specializes in voice-over-IP technologies that bring reliability and voice clarity of public telephone networks to Internet telephony. Its Tenor VoIP MultiPath switch product lines are designed to help businesses of all sizes achieve a risk-free migration to a converged network. Quintum's Tenor product line offers a wide range of unique features that differentiate it from other VoIP solutions. These features include real-time PSTN failover that eliminates risk from poor IP Quality of Service, MultiPath call routing allowing easy installation into existing data and telecom environments, and transparent communication across NAT (network address translation) firewalls. Quintum Technologies sells its MultiPath switches worldwide through its direct sales force and a network of resellers and distributors. For more information call 732-460-9000, or visit http://www.quintum.com/. Tenor(R) Monitor(TM), SelectNet(TM), PacketSaver(TM) and NATAccess(TM) are trademarks, and Quintum and Tenor are registered trademarks of Quintum Technologies, Inc. Contact: Joanne Lowy Quintum Technologies Eatontown, NJ 07724 732-460-9000 ext. 238 [email protected] Quintum Technologies CONTACT: Joanne Lowy, Quintum Technologies, +1-732-460-9000 ext. 238,[email protected] Web site: http://www.quintum.com/ |