BellSouth Marks One-year Anniversary of e-Business Center Openings With New Customers, Innovative Applications.Business Editors & Telecommunications Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2001 Accenture, Airewaves and Availity Join Growing Number of Companies Leveraging BellSouth's Reliable Infrastructure and Enhanced Portfolio of e-Business Data Solutions BellSouth (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) this week marked the one-year anniversary of its Atlanta- and Miami-based e-Business Centers by announcing services contracts with Accenture, the world's leading provider of management and technology consulting services and solutions; Airewaves, a wireless Internet Services Provider (ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ); and Availity, L.L.C., a joint venture between Navigy, Inc., a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. of Florida Inc., and HUM-e-FL, Inc., a subsidiary of Humana Inc. "One year ago, BellSouth announced the creation of two world-class e-Business Centers," noted Donna Lee Donna Lee is a bebop jazz standard itself based on the chord changes of the traditional jazz standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana".[1] It is named after the now-obscure bassist Donna Lee. , the company's Chief Marketing Officer. "Over the last year, we have extended the capabilities of the Centers by deploying managed hosting, enhancing security solutions and aligning with industry-leading companies to increase the breadth and functionality of solutions our customers are demanding. In the coming weeks and months, we will add still more capabilities to the Centers, delivering on our promise to provide a highly reliable and scalable `e-Platform' for business." e-Business Center Flexibility Key to Customers' Growing Business Demands Availity recently launched an Internet-enabled application that allows physicians and other health care providers in Florida to more efficiently transact An earlier e-commerce system for the Web from Open Market that included order capture and secure order fulfillment using credit cards, ecash and other payment systems. It included customer service and subscription administration capabilities as well as an integrated database for reporting business with multiple health plans via its "one-stop" Web site. The Internet-enabled application allows doctors to access patient eligibility and benefits information, submit claims, inquire about claim status and obtain immediate approvals and authorizations on-line. BellSouth will host Availity's Web site at its Atlanta e-Business Center and utilize the Miami e-Business Center as a back-up hosting facility, providing a redundant hosting architecture. BellSouth's portfolio of security solutions was a key factor in Availity's selection of BellSouth as its hosting provider. In addition to creating a redundant network design by utilizing both the Atlanta and Miami e-Business Centers, Availity also relies on BellSouth(R) Managed Security Service to provide dual firewalls. "A comprehensive, secure and reliable network design is foundational to our business ventures," said Julie Klapstein, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Availity. "Our recently launched application required a secure, confidential, Internet-based system." The contracts with Accenture bridge the gap between applications integration and the platform that delivers complete solutions. By combining Accenture's vast eGovernment knowledge and broad capabilities with BellSouth's world-class e-Business Centers, the two companies are building a gateway to the future for state and local governments to deliver Internet-enabled solutions that open government services to the public 24 hours a day. BellSouth's ability to customize solutions facilitated the agreement with its first wireless e-Business Center customer, Airewaves. BellSouth's flexible e-Business Center design easily adapts to evolving technologies that facilitate e-business growth. For Airewaves, BellSouth mounted antennas on the roof of its Atlanta e-Business Center, providing connectivity to the Center's full suite of Internet-enabled capabilities. "Airewaves, like most ISPs, cannot afford service interruptions," said Joe Sheehan Joseph S. Sheehan, born in New York City on February 26, 1971, graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Southern California in 1994, and lives in the New York City area. , president of Airewaves. "BellSouth's e-Business Centers provide the reliability and redundancy we need to assure our Internet customers they won't experience any down time." More information about BellSouth(R) e-Business Centers can be found at http://www.bellsouth.com/ebiz/. About the BellSouth e-Platform for Business The BellSouth e-Platform utilizes the latest in connectivity options including DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing to deliver customer-driven applications and services such as hosting, security and storage to businesses and consumers alike. The e-Platform is powered by 3.6 million miles of fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power , state-of-the-art BellSouth e-Business Centers, 1,650 central offices, 50 BellSouth Managed Facilities, 20,000 SONET rings and over 700 fast-packet switches to create an integrated, distributed e-business platform. BellSouth's e-Platform for business initiative leverages this extensive network infrastructure and experience with data services to deliver the speed, reliability and security required for next-generation e-business applications. About BellSouth Corporation BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications services company headquartered in Atlanta, GA, serving more than 45 million customers 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 16 other countries. Consistently recognized for customer satisfaction, BellSouth provides a full array of broadband data and e-commerce solutions to business customers, including Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and other Internet services. In the residential market, BellSouth offers DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary high-speed Internet See broadband. access, advanced voice features and other services. BellSouth also provides online and directory advertising services, including BellSouth(R) RealPages(SM).com. BellSouth owns 40 percent of Cingular Wireless, the nation's second largest wireless company, which provides innovative wireless data and voice services. |
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