ALLTEL, UK To Deploy Emerging Technologies; New features will add flexibility, mobility for students and faculty.LEXINGTON, Ky. -- ALLTEL (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AT) and the University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. today announced an agreement to deploy next-generation voice services to enhance the communications process for students, faculty and staff while advancing the university's goal of becoming a top national research institution. The contract also covers local phone service, voice-mail, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , long-distance and high-speed data services. Deployment of voice over Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) technology adds greater mobility for faculty and students, offering services not currently available over traditional telephone networks. For example, unified messaging allows users to check phone messages, faxes and emails either by phone or a personal computer. Speech-activated messaging will allow callers to respond to email over the phone. "This agreement is a true partnership with the university that underscores ALLTEL's commitment to provide advanced communications services to our customers in Kentucky," said Jeff Abernethy, ALLTEL's area president for Kentucky. "It also provides a high-tech roadmap for future deployment of Internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. services." Under the new five-year agreement, valued at $12.5 million, ALLTEL and the university will work together to expand the VoIP offering and explore how the technology can improve communications across the commonwealth. "This deployment helps fulfill our vision to better serve students, faculty and staff through the use of new technologies," said UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. "While we currently provide Internet telephony services to a small portion of our campus, this agreement is an opportunity to significantly expand the availability of enhanced voice and data services throughout the UK system." ALLTEL also is working with the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education to establish the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Network (KPEN), a statewide communications transport network that will interconnect (1) To attach one device to another. (2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another. and provide Internet access See how to access the Internet. to educational and governmental institutions across Kentucky. ALLTEL is a customer-focused communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. with almost 13 million customers and $8 billion in annual revenues. ALLTEL provides wireless, local telephone, long-distance, Internet and high-speed data services to residential and business customers in 26 states. ALLTEL, NYSE:AT www.alltel.com |
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