Broadwing's eClass Services Enable QuantumCast to Send High-Quality Voice over the Internet; Broadwing's Industry-First IP VPN Enables Solutions Over Award-Winning IP Backbone.Business Editors & High Tech Writers NetWorld Interop 2000 AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000 Networld+Interop Booth 2304, North Hall Broadwing Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Broadwing Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BRW BRW Business Review Weekly (business magazine; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) BRW Business Report Writer BRW Barrow, AK, USA - Barrow (Airport Code) BRW Business Requirement Worksheet ), announced today that it has delivered on its promise of business-grade voice over IP for QuantumCast, an IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. provider and beta tester of Broadwing's eClass(TM) IP VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. services. Broadwing's OC48 IP backbone and Quality of Service (QoS) will enable QuantumCast to provide customers with business-grade, long-distance telephone service over the Internet, their QCIP QCIP Quality Control Inspection Procedure (TM) solution, on the same network with the company's other IP services. "Broadwing showed a true commitment to helping us deliver the product we wanted to deliver, our QCIP solution," said John Dill Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO (25 December 1881 - 4 November 1944) was a British commander in World War I and World War II who played a significant role in the formation of the "special relationship" between the United Kingdom and the United States. II, 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 QuantumCast, based in Richland, Michigan Richland is a village in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 593 at the 2000 census. The village is within Richland Township about nine miles northeast of Kalamazoo. . "They were flexible in their design of the solution, and were able to provide the only infrastructure robust enough to enable us to deliver true business-grade voice over IP." QuantumCast said that it chose a Broadwing solution because of the company's commitment to accountability and its unique network design. In its search for a solution that would allow it to deliver high-volume, site to site voice and analog connectivity, QuantumCast selected eClass because of the Quality of Service (QoS) offered. "Voice quality is not a trivial issue. Businesses will only embrace voice over IP when they are assured that high-quality can be achieved," said Tony Tomae, vice president, Internet/Data Services of Broadwing Communications. "Together with QuantumCast, Broadwing has delivered on the promise of offering high-quality voice services over an IP backbone." eClass, which is the industry's first network-based, business-grade IP VPN offering, combines the speed and reliability of Broadwing's next-generation IP network with sophisticated capabilities like VPN security, traffic management and dynamically modifiable packet prioritization. Broadwing's eClass features intelligent application-awareness that aids in prioritizing applications to ensure that mission-critical ones receive precedence. eClass supports three classes of service, each with its own service-level guarantee for 100% network availability. About Broadwing Broadwing Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadwing Inc. Broadwing Inc. (NYSE:BRW) is an integrated communications powerhouse delivering voice, data and Internet solutions to a variety of customers nationwide. Broadwing combines unparalleled customer service with a premier next-generation fiber network and award-winning IP backbone, to create data and Internet solutions that are innovative, reliable, and provide businesses a competitive advantage. Broadwing sets the standard for customer accountability with its first-in-the-industry Installation Guarantee. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio with 6,000 employees in 38 cities, Broadwing can be found on the Web at www.broadwing.com |
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