[November 14, 2005] Sphere Communications and MASERGY Certify SIP Trunking -- Enabling All-Software Enterprise IP PBX Solutions Tweet LAS VEGAS --(Business Wire)-- Nov. 14, 2005 -- Sphericall IP PBX With MASERGY's SIP-Enabled inCONTROL Voice Service Reduces Telephony Hardware and Infrastructure Overhead in the Enterprise Sphere Communications (www.spherecom.com) announced today an alliance with Masergy Communications, Inc. (www.masergy.com) and the certification of SIP trunking between the award-winning Sphericall IP PBX and MASERGY's inCONTROL Voice service. SIP trunking, from the premise-based Sphericall IP PBX via MASERGY's inCONTROL Voice service, reduces the need for both PSTN media gateways and narrow-band voice circuits in the enterprise. Businesses deploying new VoIP telephony solutions realize the benefits of IP communications inside their organization but have been forced to convert to traditional narrow-band public switch telephone network (PSTN) connections when communicating outside their business. "Now, enterprises will reap the benefits of SIP Trunking capabilities," said Don McCracken, Voice Channel Director at MASERGY. "Simplified management and lower costs are just the starting point -- this represents a major step toward the all-IP infrastructure for business." By utilizing SIP trunking, businesses can now begin to eliminate IP-to-PSTN conversion from the enterprise; simplifying IP voice deployments, and lowering costs. The move to SIP trunking will position businesses to leverage rich, all-IP enhanced communications between organizations, such as across their supply chain, with business partners, and customers. Sphere's Sphericall IP PBX, an innovative enterprise business communications platform for mid-sized and large organizations, provides full PBX functionality plus advanced IP communications capabilities deployed as an enterprise-class business software application. "From a technology perspective, it has simply become illogical to convert IP telephony back to traditional circuit technology and lose all the value of enhanced IP communications," said Todd Landry, SVP at Sphere Communications. "SIP trunking will preserve this value -- it is a key component of our vision for open, all-software enterprise IP communications both inside and outside the borders of the enterprise." About Sphere Communications Sphere is the first to deliver IP PBX technology as a business application for Service Oriented Architectures. A software company, Sphere has the most robust IP-based software communications technology available in the marketplace. Developed around hundreds of enterprise installations the Sphericall platform hosts an extremely robust PBX feature set and is proven in installations that scale to more than 20,000 users. Sphere provides application developers with a Communications Web Services SDK, enabling communications to be integrated with a wide range of business applications. Founded in 1994 Sphere Communications headquarters is located in Lincolnshire, Illinois and provides its products to a variety of enterprise customer networks. For more information please see the Sphere Communications web site at www.spherecom.com. About MASERGY MASERGY (www.masergy.com) is a privately held global service provider specializing in real-time application performance across converged enterprise networks. Serving customers in 40 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Latin and North America, MASERGY leverages Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) across an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network to cost-effectively deliver multiple services over a single connection. MASERGY's customers include companies from the financial/banking, health care, entertainment broadcasting, hospitality/hotels and manufacturing industries. Visit the company web site or call 1-866-MASERGY. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]