AccessLine Enables Communication Providers to Quickly Deploy Mobility and Voice Services to Customers.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001 OnSite Access offers AccessLine's enhanced voice services to build total communication solution AccessLine Communications Corporation, a hosted communications provider, has launched services with building-centric communications provider OnSite Access. AccessLine has integrated its voice services with OnSite Access' existing communications services to bring OnSite Access customers value-added solutions more quickly and cost-effectively. In the competitive communications market, emerging communications companies must be able to offer more than the features and services traditional carriers provide. Value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. providers like OnSite Access require a broad portfolio of communications and voice services specifically targeted to the small- and medium-sized business customer. AccessLine is providing OnSite Access with these sought-after mobility and advanced voicemail services plus enhanced paging and conference calling. "Our suite of hosted communications services enables our technology partners to move very quickly compared to traditional, system-based solutions, to scale in-line with customer growth and to rollout new services without the burden of product and back-office engineering," said Ian Widger, president and chief executive officer of AccessLine. "AccessLine is committed to providing emerging telecommunications companies with the new services they need to grow and succeed in competitive markets. We are pleased to have OnSite Access as a partner and to add our hosted voice services to their product portfolio." OnSite Access is one of the fastest-growing building-centric integrated communications providers, offering high-speed Internet See broadband. access, enhanced data applications and local and long distance voice services. As a result of its agreement with AccessLine, OnSite Access can now provide building tenants hosted mobility and advanced voice communications. These hosted services will complete OnSite Access' comprehensive communications system In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. offerings and increase the speed at which OnSite Access can deliver new services to its customers nationwide. OnSite Access has wired more than 550 buildings in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada, covering more than 150 million square feet of office space. With AccessLine, OnSite Access can now provide seamless mobility and voice services to these locations plus dozens of others in the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. and Canada. "Partnering with AccessLine enables OnSite Access to quickly deploy a unique, new service to our customer base within commercial office buildings," explains Greg Thomas John Gregory Thomas (born August 12, 1960, Trebanos, Wales) is a former England cricketer who played in 5 Tests and 3 ODIs from 1986 to 1987. , vice president of product marketing, OnSite Access. "OnSite Access continues to differentiate itself from the competition by adding value-added services, such as AccessLine's mobility and voicemail services, to our robust product offering." AccessLine's hosted communication services can be purchased as an entire suite or individually, integrating with enterprises' legacy systems or service providers' existing products and services. AccessLine's hosted services include: -- Advanced hosted voice mail -- Mobility services -- Conference calling -- Auto-attendant -- E-mail -- E-mail text-to-speech -- Enhanced paging -- Web access to messaging -- Unified communications -- Fax services -- Back office services, including billing and customer support AccessLine services are based on a highly redundant, fault-tolerant, carrier-grade infrastructure to provide mission-critical reliability for customers' communications services. About AccessLine Communications AccessLine Communications Corporation is a hosted communications provider, offering a range of hosted communication and voice services to enterprises, emerging telecommunications companies and technology partners. AccessLine's hosted communications services give businesses the agility they need to grow and compete in the fast-paced global economy and the flexibility of hosted communications that reduce ongoing capital investment. AccessLine is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with investments from Gabriel Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. , Invesco, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Venrock Associates. For more information please visit www.accessline.com. About OnSite Access OnSite Access Inc. is one of the leading building-centric integrated communications providers, serving small- and medium-sized business customers within multi-tenant commercial office buildings. OnSite Access offers a suite of communications products, including local and long distance voice services, high-speed Internet access and enhanced data applications to its customers through its broadband communications networks and building-centric approach. Investors in OnSite Access include FrontLine Capital Group (Nasdaq:FLCG), Spectrum Equity Investors, Crosspoint Venture Partners, J.P. Morgan Investment Corporation, AT&T Venture Fund, Veritech Ventures, Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, and PSINet Ventures. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , OnSite Access is operational in the following metropolitan markets and the surrounding areas: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Philadelphia, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Toronto and Washington D.C. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.onsiteaccess.com. |
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