Color Broadband Expands Wireless Broadband VoIP Services Powered by LignUp.Successful Retail Business Sales of LignUp-Driven Wireless VoIP See voice over Wi-Fi. Services Lead Color a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. See also: Lead Broadband to Expand Wholesale VoIP Offerings MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- LignUp Corporation, a provider of converged communications solutions, today announced that Color Broadband, Inc. has expanded its wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, which are powered by the LignUp Communications Application Server. Color Broadband, Southern California's leading business VoIP and wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 provider, offers a full suite of solutions for delivering data and voice over a hybrid WiMax and WireLine Broadband network. Based on its retail success providing LignUp-powered VoIP services direct to business customers, the company is now offering wholesale VoIP services to building management firms (eSmart program) and service providers (eVoice program). The services create new revenue streams for both Color Broadband and its wholesale partners. Color Broadband initially implemented the LignUp Communications Application Server in the first half of 2005 in response to retail customer demands for business-class broadband VoIP services. The flexible LignUp VoIP communications platform, which is deployed with hosted telephony, voice mail, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , auto attendant The part of an interactive voice response (IVR) system that replaces the human operator and directs callers to the appropriate extensions or voice mailboxes. See IVR. and other web applications, made it easy for Color Broadband to implement the wide range of IP-PBX services on which businesses rely. "LignUp provided the building blocks for a scalable, cost-effective infrastructure that allowed us to quickly get our solutions to market," said Fran McGrath, founder and 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. , Color Broadband Inc. "Our ability to intelligently route voice traffic allows our customers to focus on expanding their businesses and lower overall communications costs. LignUp provides us with easily customizable feature server capabilities that we can deliver and also allows us to create flexible solutions critical to the success of our end customers' businesses." The comprehensive and scalable LignUp server has enabled Color Broadband to extend its retail VoIP services to wholesale customers. Central to facilitating this expansion is LignUp's partitioning capability, allowing wholesalers to set up flexible hosted IP-Centrex, carrier services, provisioning and billing for each of their customers. This turnkey solution includes the redundant LignUp servers, intelligent call routing, training, second-level support, and back office billing with the ability to show detailed usage reports on a monthly, weekly or even a daily basis. "The ability to extend VoIP as a wholesale offering using LignUp's software provides a winning solution for service providers and property management firms," said Scheron Briones, Color Broadband COO. "Under our eSmart Building program, building management firms can generate new revenue streams with competitive, value-added offerings for their tenants. Tenants get an all-in-one service when they lease space in buildings with our eSmart Internet and VoIP service, significantly reducing their IT capital requirements Capital requirements Financing required for the operation of a business, composed of long-term and working capital plus fixed assets. . Meanwhile, we can continue to grow our retail customer base while managing our support costs, since wholesalers using the LignUp Web Interface can easily provide the first line of support for their customers." "Service providers like Color Broadband are rapidly expanding hosted VoIP telephony services based on standards-based solutions that lower time barriers to deployment and reduce costs across the life of the implementations," said Kevin Nethercott, president and COO for LignUp Corporation. "LignUp's customization capabilities allow providers and their wholesale customers to differentiate their services in the marketplace - a clear business advantage in what is clearly becoming a competitive market. We are pleased to be working with Color Broadband in pioneering the future of WiMax VoIP services." About Color Broadband Color Broadband Inc. is a multi-disciplinary Internet network agency that specializes in the design, deployment, integration, and operation of broadband VoIP and broadband wireless See wireless broadband. networks. Color Broadband is a certified FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. 214 voice carrier as well as a wireless Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (WISP), implementing redundant last mile strategies and complete hosted IP Centrex and IP PBX broadband voice (and data) systems for enterprise clientele. The scalable Color Broadband WISP network can handle a simple office-to-office bridge network, as well as support large remote wireless projects. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is headquartered in Long Beach, Calif. For more information, visit www.colorbroadband.com. About LignUp Corporation LignUp Corporation delivers the highly scalable and flexible LignUp Communications Application Server, a comprehensive IP communications system and a development platform that allows for easy integration of voice and rich media into Web applications and portals. The standards-based (SIP, RTP (1) (Rapid Transport Protocol) The protocol used in IBM's High Performance Routing (HPR) system. (2) (Realtime Transport Protocol) An IP protocol that supports real time transmission of voice and video. , SOAP/WSDL), 100% software solution includes a full-featured, presence-aware IP-PBX, IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. , voicemail, unified messaging, and LignUp Communications Web Services that can be quickly consumed from .Net or Java development environments. Developers can integrate rich communications capabilities (call control, media control, click-to-call, find-me/follow-me, text-to-speech, unified messaging, IVR and more) into applications within a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
(2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) based LignUp architecture can be deployed on a single server or within server farms. Applications can be quickly deployed by leveraging the LignUp solution - installed on-premise or hosted by service providers. This proven solution is deployed today in over 150 organizations around the world. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LignUp has offices in London and Tokyo. Visit www.LignUp.com for more information. |
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