Allworx and Cbeyond Partner To Provide Interoperability
ALLWORX AND CBEYOND PARTNER TO PROVIDE INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN ALLWORX' HARDWARE AND CBEYOND'S SIP TRUNKING SERVICE, BEYONDVOICE WITH SIPCONNECT
Partnership Provides Business Class Voice Quality, Extensive Calling Features and
Significant Cost Savings to Small and Medium Businesses
EAST ROCHESTER , N.Y., August 29, 2007 - Allworx, the Small Business Phone and Network Solutions Company, and Cbeyond®, a leading IP-based managed service provider for small businesses, today 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 award-winning IP-PBX/Key systems and SIP-phones provide true key system functionality critical to SMBs transitioning to next generation IP phone systems at an industry leading price point.
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.”
About Allworx
Allworx Corp is comprised of two divisions. The Allworx Product Division develops award winning, phone & network systems for small-to-medium sized businesses through a network of Authorized Resellers. The product line includes the Allworx 6x, 10x and 24x systems and Allworx 9112 and 9102 phones along with a series of software options. By combining the advanced features of today’s VoIP systems with the key system features SMBs have grown to rely on, Allworx systems are ideal replacements for the millions of aging (TDM) PBX and key phone systems in use today. Allworx Corp’s second division, the Allworx Consulting Division, delivers elite software and digital hardware engineering services to both large and small companies who want to enhance and compliment their research and product development capabilities.
About Cbeyond
Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading IP-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of communications and IT services to more than 31,000 small businesses throughout the United States. Cbeyond offers more than 20 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry®, broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net.
Contact:
Allworx Corp.
Sandra M. Gault
+1-585-421-3850 x124
press@allworx.com
