TeleContinuity Teams Up With EnvoyWorldWide to Offer Companies the Ideal Solution for Managing Delivery of Time-Sensitive Communications; Alliance Applies Years of Intellectual and Practical Experience Towards Continuity of Communications Solutions.BEDFORD, Mass. -- EnvoyWorldWide(R), the experienced provider of high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. notification services, and TeleContinuity(R), Inc., provider of critical backup telecommunication services for business and government, today announced a strategic partnership that combines EnvoyWorldWide's Notification Services for Business Continuity with TeleContinuity's Survivable sur·viv·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of surviving: survivable organisms in a hostile environment. 2. That can be survived: a survivable, but very serious, illness. Communications Network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. to ensure maximum availability of communications systems during times of crisis. TeleContinuity's Survivable Communication Network is a robust call-routing system that redirects calls to a subscriber in an emergency using the Internet and the public telephone network. This solution, which is vital to all continuity of operations plans The Continuity of Operations Plan refers to the preparations and institutions maintained by the United States government, providing survival of government operations in the case of catastrophic events. for business and government agencies, assures unbroken continuity of communications during disasters, evacuations or telecommunications outages. "While telephone backup services are critical to recovery and continuity in an emergency, our customers were looking to us to provide a more comprehensive communication solution," said Roy Pinchot, President 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. of TeleContinuity, Inc. "With Envoy, we can now offer our customers a complete package that includes the ability to send critical messages, while ensuring the messages are routed to the correct recipient." Designed to manage spikes in traffic and prioritize time-sensitive messages, EnvoyWorldWide delivers personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. , interactive communications to support the emergency communications needs of its customers. These services, in concert with the telephone backup services, enable TeleContinuity to now offer its customers high-speed, high-volume messaging services to provide a more comprehensive emergency communications plan. "With a shared vision of reliability, scalability and high-capacity, the collaboration between Envoy and TeleContinuity provides a powerful and competitive one-two punch one-two punch n. 1. A combination of two blows delivered in rapid succession in boxing, especially a left lead followed by a right cross. 2. Informal An especially forceful or effective combination or sequence of two things. ," said Ben Levitan, President and CEO of EnvoyWorldWide. "Offering the robust notification platform of Envoy with the backup capabilities of TeleContinuity, this joint solution gives customers a powerful set of tools for ensuring continuity of communications." About TeleContinuity, Inc. Founded in the wake of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax anthrax (ăn`thrăks), acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis attacks on Congress, TeleContinuity is focused on providing telecommunications-assurance services to government and businesses customers worldwide. Positioned as "telecommunications gap insurance," TeleContinuity delivers a seamless, low cost, network-level solution that will restore incoming telephone service to users within minutes of a PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). or telephone company failure, fiber cut, fire, flood, building evacuation, or catastrophic event. TeleContinuity, Inc. is a 2003 winner of The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program (NIST-ATP) Grant Competition. For more information, visit www.telecontinuity.com. About EnvoyWorldWide EnvoyWorldWide provides companies with proven and reliable notification applications for the delivery of time-sensitive and proactive notifications. Capable of automating and processing high-volume requests for message routing, status information and various other interactive functions, EnvoyWorldWide's patented enterprise notification and message delivery services allow organizations to facilitate business continuity initiatives, drive proactive customer interactions and streamline overall outbound communication efforts. EnvoyWorldWide communication-enables enterprises to facilitate personalized, fully interactive voice and text broadcasts to landline phones, faxes, email, pagers, SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. and WAP phones, PDAs, BlackBerrys and other wireless devices. More information is available by calling 888.252.7837 or at www.envoyworldwide.com. |
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