Cbeyond to Hold SIPconnect Forum Events for IP-Based Solution Providers in Dallas and Houston.Forum Educates Providers on Benefits of SIPconnect Compliant Products and Services DALLAS & HOUSTON -- Cbeyond[R], Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CBEY CBEY Center for Business and the Environment at Yale ), a leading IP-based managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality provider to small businesses, announced today its highly popular SIPconnect Forums will be held on Oct. 10, 2007 in Dallas and Oct. 11, 2007 in Houston. The half-day sessions are designed to educate Cbeyond's channel partners as well as IP-based service providers, equipment manufacturers and software vendors on the benefits of SIPconnect compliant products and services. Both SIPconnect Forums are scheduled to take place from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CDT CDT abbr. Central Daylight Time CDT Central Daylight Time CDT n abbr (US) (= Central Daylight Time) → hora de verano del centro; (BRIT . The Dallas SIPconnect Forum will be held at the InterContinental Hotel and Resort in Addison, Texas Addison is a city in Dallas County, Texas (USA). The population was 14,166 at the 2000 census. Addison is a northern suburb of Dallas. The city calls itself the Town of Addison but it is incorporated as a city. . Houston's SIPconnect Forum will be held at the InterContinental Hotel and Resort in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the . SIPconnect([R]) is an initiative of the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. ) Forum (www.sipforum.org) and a registered certification mark A certification mark on a commercial product indicates five things:
"Using SIPconnect keeps our service offerings at the forefront of the industry," said Randall Byrd, sales and marketing director for Northern Communications Group, a telecommunications system and network integrator and Cbeyond Channel Partner. "Our ability to provide leading-edge technology to our customers increases the likelihood that they will continue to turn to us for the latest in advanced communications services." Cbeyond, whose BeyondVoice with SIPconnect service was recently awarded the SIPconnect Compliant designation by the SIP Forum, will be joined at the event by a variety of its channel partners that offer interoperable solutions for Cbeyond's BeyondVoice with SIPconnect service, an integrated package of local and long distance voice, broadband Internet and mobile services. Attending companies include Allworx, Avaya, Cisco, Digium, Epygi, Fonality, Ingate Systems, LINKSYS, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Polycom, Siemens, Switchvox, Talkswitch and Vonexus. The SIPconnect Forum will feature a presentation on the state of the industry by Cbeyond Chief Technology Officer Chris Gatch about SIPconnect standards and how Cbeyond and its partner community are incorporating this standard into their solutions. The event also includes product demonstrations by leading IP-based solution providers with a networking event to follow. "SIPconnect Forums are educational events that provide a great opportunity for IP-based solution providers to meet and better understand their offerings," said Gatch. "But most importantly these increasingly popular forums give solution providers the information they need to understand the benefits of SIPconnect Compliant products and services as they take these solutions to the marketplace." For more information about the SIPconnect Forums held in Dallas and Houston, email channel.marketing@cbeyond.net. About Cbeyond Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading IP-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of communications and IT services to more than 31,000 small businesses throughout the United States. Cbeyond offers more than 20 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry[R], broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net. About SIPconnect SIPconnect is a certification mark of the SIP Forum, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . For additional information about SIPconnect visit the SIP Forum website at www.sipforum.org. CBEY-F CBEY-G |
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