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BandTel Completes Rigorous Interoperability Testing
With VegaStream VoIP Gateways
The Alliance Provides Customers and Resellers with a Reliable and Comprehensive, Easy-to-Install and Use Voice Solution
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Newport Beach, Calif., and San Diego, Calif. – October 2, 2006 -— BandTelTM, a leading worldwide provider of SIP Trunking services announced today it has entered into an alliance with VegaStream, a leading manufacturer of VoIP gateways. The partnership certifies that BandTel’s scalable, fail-safe VoIP network is compatible with VegaStream’s award-winning VoIP gateways.
The alliance enables VegaStream channel partners worldwide to offer an interoperable solution that combines BandTel’s fault-tolerant, bandwidth-saving architecture and global network with reliable, cost-effective and feature-rich VoIP gateways by VegaStream. In turn, BandTel will offer VegaStream’s high-performance VoIP gateways to its enterprise and call center customers.
“We are excited about this partnership with VegaStream because it brings our respective customers and resellers innovative solutions that are easy to deploy and use while reducing common throughput and redundancy issues,” stated Chris Dunk, CEO of BandTel. “VegaStream is known for providing best-of-breed VoIP gateways. By combining our scalable, fault-tolerant architecture with VegaStream’s gateways, we are working together to ensure compatibility and interoperability, which results in seamless integration and a high quality voice service.”
VegaStream offers a wide range of award winning VoIP gateways that are highly reliable, cost-effective and easy to install and use. From the Vega 400 digital gateway-a carrier-grade platform that connects digital telephony equipment to the public network-to the latest Vega 50 family of analog gateways, all of VegaStream's products help streamline the introduction of essential VoIP services. Its various standards-based platforms enable enterprises to have access to mission critical VoIP services, and let carriers easily deploy services to any customer without requiring changes to their existing infrastructure.
“BandTel is the missing piece of the VoIP puzzle because it delivers the reliability and scalability absent in most bandwidth-heavy IP telephony environments,” said Donald Krause, vice president, North American service provider market at VegaStream. “We are pleased to develop a relationship with BandTel. It reinforces our commitment of delivering highly innovative and reliable VoIP systems while allowing us to leverage its ability to meet the demands of high intensity calling environments.”
BandTel’s SIP Softswitch technology allows users to receive service from multiple BandTel switching centers at any given time. Its N-Plus architecture lifts the burden placed on even the most robust servers with a clustered architecture that eliminates the need for numerous IP addresses to numerous SIP proxies. Enterprise users deploying VegaStream’s VoIP solutions with BandTel’s network get the combined benefit of seamless integration -even in legacy environments- and the most flexible, reliable and cost effective VoIP system available on the market today.
Both companies will be exhibiting at the upcoming Internet Telephony Conference, October 10-13 at the San Diego Convention Center. BandTel will be located in booth #821 and will also participate in Ingate’s SIP Trunking seminars in room 6E. VegaStream will be in booth #700 V1.
Founded in 1998, VegaStream is one of the most experienced players in the industrial VoIP market. The company supplies cost-effective, reliable and easy to deploy gateway CPE to both traditional telecommunications carriers and the new generation of Internet telephony service providers. VegaStream also serves the enterprise market through a global network of distributors and resellers supported by regional offices in the UK, USA and Australia. VegaStream is a privately held company.
About BandTel
BandTel is a leading worldwide provider of SIP Trunking services. The company is dedicated to ensuring its customers and partners alike have access to the most reliable, end-to-end VoIP service available on the market today. Its N-Plus™ architecture is designed to solve the throughput and redundancy problems on high-capacity SIP-based networks and eliminate any single point of failure. BandTel continues to develop strong partnerships with leading carriers and telecommunications companies such as: Global Crossing, XO Communications, Level 3, Qwest Communications, Verizon Business, and Primus. BandTel is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.
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