WALTHAM, Mass. -- Jan. 26, 2005 -- TeleGea, the leading provider of service delivery solutions for hosted VoIP services, today announced Spirit Telecom's selection of TeleGea's VoIP Delivery Management Solution to quickly and reliably automate and scale its wholesale and retail hosted VoIP services for business and residential customers.
Spirit Telecom, the Columbia, SC-based retail competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) that also provides wholesale services locally and nationally, selected TeleGea's VoIP Delivery Management Solution to accelerate and scale residential and enterprise VoIP services delivered by its wholesale customers, as well as delivery of VoIP services to its own direct enterprise customers. Owned by a group of 15 independent and cooperative telephone operating companies (IOC) in the Southeast United States, Spirit Telecom will employ the highly customizable TeleGea VoIP Delivery Management Solution to standardize and automate its processes through a single service delivery environment coordinating order management, provisioning workflow and billing tasks, all of which had previously been separate and manually intensive.
"When Spirit Telecom chose to deploy a portfolio of VoIP services, we realized we needed to upgrade our current infrastructure for the complexity of offering IP Centrex and residential VoIP services to our retail customers, 18 member companies and many other wholesale and ISP resellers," said W. J. Jordan, Executive Vice-President, Telecom and ISP for Spirit Telecom. "This single solution has solved not only our own VoIP delivery challenges, but positioned Spirit Telecom to meet our rapid growth plans."
TeleGea's VoIP Delivery Management Solution includes pre-packaged operational and business support for a full range of next-generation voice and data services, enabling carriers to leverage network investments while simultaneously extending self-management capabilities to partners and customers, removing cost and complexity from their operations, and dramatically scaling their VoIP business. With the deployment of TeleGea's VoIP service delivery management platform, Spirit Telecom now assures the seamless addition of hosted VoIP to a menu of nationwide voice and data services that include access, technical support, Web hosting, domain registration and portal development. It also provides wholesale and retail circuit telephony, ATM-based business data services, and Signaling System 7 (SS7) and Intelligent Network/Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) database services.
Pre-integrated with more than five leading softswitch and feature server platforms, including, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, VocalData and Sylantro, the VoIP Delivery Management Solution enables service providers to leverage their network investments while simultaneously opening new reseller channels, extending self-management capabilities to partners and customers, removing cost and complexity from their operations, and dramatically scaling their VoIP business.
"Our solution enables service providers to offer uncompromised quality of service, efficiency and cost control - the keys to any VoIP offering's success," said Steven Domenikos, CEO of TeleGea. "Spirit Telecom and its IOC owners have killed multiple birds with this single TeleGea stone--standardizing processes, automating their entire workflow, and unifying service delivery across their entire wholesale and retail value chain."
About TeleGea
TeleGea, Inc. is the leading provider of service delivery solutions for hosted VoIP services. The Company's VoIP Delivery Management Solution is pre-integrated with BroadSoft, VocalData, Sylantro and Cisco VoIP solutions, providing powerful capabilities to rapidly create and deploy complex VoIP services and assure their delivery with unprecedented visibility. Service providers realize the benefits of substantially reduced time and costs associated with introducing, delivering and maintaining hosted VoIP services, and corresponding efficiencies from the simplification of their operations environments. TeleGea is headquartered in Waltham, MA. For more information, please visit www.telegea.com.
