Airbiquity Drives Home Value with New Qwest Hosting Agreement.DENVER -- Qwest Communications
See: New York Stock Exchange : Q) today announced it has signed an agreement with Seattle-based Airbiquity Inc. Airbiquity develops wireless in-band modem software solutions for automotive manufacturers and suppliers, personal navigation device A Personal Navigation Device (PND) is a portable electronic product which combines a positioning capability (such as GPS) and navigation functions. The earliest PND were hand-held GPS units (circa mid 1980s) which were capable of displaying the user's location on an (PND (Personal Navigation Device) A portable GPS-based navigation system that can be used when walking, hiking or in any vehicle. See GPS. ) manufacturers and fleet management companies. Airbiquity is using the state-of-the-art telecom and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. infrastructure of Qwest's CyberCenters in Seattle and Sterling, Va., to commercially launch its VIAaq[TM] solution, a turnkey managed telematics and telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. data service offering. VIAaq provides scalable and feature-rich data connectivity between telematics service providers and a vehicle or portable navigation device (PND) for a relatively low cost of entry. VIAaq delivers data using Airbiquity's patented data over voice technology, as well as existing Short Message Service (SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ) and packet data transport mediums. By using VIAaq, automotive manufacturers and PND suppliers eliminate the operations and maintenance costs associated with hosting or managing their own data center. Qwest's high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. co-location facilities enable VIAaq to provide a load-balanced and geographically redundant system to handle critical business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . "Airbiquity selected Qwest for their high security, 24-hour monitoring services that are designed to ensure carrier grade reliability for our operations and equipment," said Leon Hong, chief technology officer for Airbiquity. "We are excited to be working with this industry-leading provider to offer exceptional telematics services to our customers." "Airbiquity's business is about delivering innovative and technologically advanced services for customers," said Tom Richards, executive vice president, Qwest business markets group. "When they needed a nimble and national-scale communications provider, the Qwest account team was excited to step forward and offer a strategic piece of Airbiquity's unique service offering." Qwest opened its world-class CyberCenter in the Seattle area in February 2007 to provide secure, reliable and scalable hosting services to businesses. Qwest CyberCenters provide expert support for customers to conduct e-commerce, operate complex Web sites, offer geographical redundancy, and manage entire IT environments including enterprise applications, databases and data storage. Qwest's business market group serves hundreds of thousands of business and federal, state and government customers coast to coast with a full suite of data, Internet and voice products that run over Qwest's nationwide fiber-optic MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. network. Qwest's innovative technologies, combined with its award-winning customer service, make it one of the nation's top-tier business and government communications providers. About Qwest Qwest offers a unique and powerful combination of managed voice and data solutions for businesses, government agencies and consumers - locally and throughout the country. Customers coast to coast are turning to Qwest's industry-leading national fiber optic network and its Spirit of Service for quality products and superior customer experience. Qwest is a participant in Networx, the largest communications services contract in the world, to provide leading-edge voice, data and video services. For more information on Qwest, and its various operating subsidiaries, please go to www.qwest.com. For information about the products and services Qwest is offering in the Networx contract, visit www.gsanetworx.com. About Airbiquity Inc. Airbiquity provides wireless communications solutions that enable product suppliers and service providers in the M2M M2M Machine-to-Machine (communication, mainly mobile) M2M Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album) M2M Mobile to Mobile (cellular phone) M2M Member-to-Member M2M Month to Month and telematics industries to deliver wireless data reliably and ubiquitously. Used by some of the largest automotive manufacturers in their telematics service offerings, Airbiquity's patented aqLink technology provides data communications over digital wireless voice networks. To learn more about Airbiquity, please visit their web site at www.airbiquity.com. The Qwest logo is a registered trademark of Qwest Communications International Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. |
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