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Allworx and Cbeyond Partner Team to Provide Interoperability of Solutions(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Allworx and Cbeyond, an IP-based managed service provider for small businesses, announced interoperability between Allworx' award winning line of SIP-phones and IP-PBX systems and Cbeyond's SIP Trunking service, BeyondVoice with SIPconnect. The combined solution provides the small and medium sized business (SMB) market with a solution that delivers business-class voice quality, extensive calling features and significant cost savings. Cbeyond delivers integrated packages of communications and IT services to more than 31,000 small businesses across the United States. Its BeyondVoice with SIPconnect service is an integrated package of local and long-distance voice, high-speed Internet and mobile services. Allworx' IP-PBX/Key systems and SIP-phones provide true key system functionality critical to SMBs transitioning to next generation IP phone systems. Together, the two companies are leveraging the SIPconnect specification to ensure a consistent quality of service, low cost and full-featured telephony for SIP-based VoIP calls. They are also training and supporting a mutual set of channel partners to meet the communications and IT needs of small and medium sized businesses across the United States. Allworx combined with Cbeyond's BeyondVoice with SIPconnect service provides businesses -- requiring as few as four SIP trunks -- with cost-effective Direct Inward Dial (DID) capabilities; high quality voice services; and reliable service and support. Channel partners are leveraging this solution to deliver on-premise equipment and managed services that include: T1 connections for Internet and email; local and long distance calling; mobile and BlackBerry services; and applications such as virus protection, spam blocking, firewalls, secure back up, file sharing, VPNs, and fax-to-email services. "Our relationship with Allworx is beneficial on multiple levels, because we're making our joint customers happy by meeting their communications and IT needs more effectively, and we're also simplifying the installation process for channel partners, while increasing their annuity streams," said Chris Gatch, chief technology officer for Cbeyond. "For our channel partners, time is money, and getting users up and running quickly is paramount," said George E. Daddis, chief executive officer for Allworx Corp. "By combining our turn-key servers and QoS solutions with Cbeyond's services, many of our channel partners have been able to complete robust installations in an hour, a task that once took days to complete. Beyond the install, our combined offerings reduce customer churn, ensuring the long-lasting engagements that strengthen the channel partner's bottom line." ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright 2007 Wireless News |