CPT International Introduces Voice Harbor for Outsourced Voice Application Hosting; New Hosting Solution Helps Partners Meet Demands of the Rapidly Expanding Speech Industry.

ATLANTA -- CPT International, a leader in voice hosting services, today announced the immediate availability of its Voice Harbor outsourced hosting solution for voice application developers, technology providers and their customers. By partnering with CPT, these companies can save time and money through leveraging Voice Harbor to host their VoiceXML, speech, multi-modal and traditional telephony applications.

CPT is currently forming partnerships with voice application developers and technology providers to offer customers a faster, more cost-effective and feature-rich approach to launching voice application projects than the traditional customer premise build-out. Customers maintain all the control of an on-premise solution, but leverage the strength of a road-tested platform that operates best-of-breed voice technologies in world class, secure facilities. Application development partners value CPT because the capital investment hurdle to deploying speech applications is significantly reduced by hosting the application with Voice Harbor. Instead of investing time and money in building an on-premise telephony platform, their customers can immediately engage in defining and executing on the business value of their voice application project, shortening the overall deployment cycle. Technology partners benefit by gaining value from Voice Harbor's ability to aggregate and capture customers who may have foregone potential telephony projects due to the risk of up-front investment. Additionally, Voice Harbor serves these partners as a showcase environment for exposing new features and innovations to a community of voice application developers and enterprise customers.

"Voice Harbor is a superior alternative to building on-premise telephony systems," said David Cohen, Voice Harbor Product Manager. "Customers can rest easy knowing that their voice applications are running on a robust, carrier-class platform without taking on all the expense and resource drain of designing, building and supporting their own telephony systems. Additionally, they can stay focused on their core businesses and get their solutions launched in less time and with less risk by leaving the telephony expertise to the telephony experts."

Voice Harbor's scalable, reliable, flexible hosting solution completely eliminates the telecom headache for developers and their clients. Its established, robust infrastructure offers flexible call capacity, predictable costs via usage-based pricing, and rapid deployment.

"Outsourcing the infrastructure to an expert hosting company such as CPT frees developers to create and launch applications quickly," Cohen said. "They can promote their applications without having to wait for a client to scope out and build a deployment environment; this significantly shortens the bid-to-build cycle."

Built on open standards, including VoiceXML and SIP, Voice Harbor supports speech recognition, text-to-speech, touch tone and call-center processing applications, in addition to advanced services such as reverse number lookup and speaker verification.

With more than a decade of experience in delivering robust telephony performance, CPT meets the stringent security criteria and capacity needs of telecom carriers, government agencies and business enterprises. The company's facilities offer 24X7 security and climate control, continuous power and cooling systems, hardened architecture, and secure VPN connections.

About CPT International

CPT International Inc. is a telecom services provider located in Marietta, GA. Our flagship offering, Voice Harbor, provides hosting services for VoiceXML, speech, multi-modal and traditional telephony applications. Voice Harbor brings flexible call capacity, predictable costs and rapid deployment to customers and partners seeking to outsource voice application infrastructure. With more than a decade of experience delivering robust telephony performance and proactive support to carrier-grade customers, CPT is the partner of choice for standards-based voice application hosting. For more information visit us at www.cptii.com.