Unlimited Local: Including features like Caller ID, Call Forwarding, 3-Way Calling with Transfer, Call Return, Call Block, Call Waiting, Voicemail, and many others.
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A Metro Ethernet is a computer network that covers a metropolitan area and that is based on the Ethernet standard. It is commonly used as a metropolitan access network to connect subscribers and businesses to a larger service network or the Internet. Businesses can also use Metro Ethernet to connect branch offices to their Intranet.
Ethernet has been a well known technology for decades. An Ethernet interface is much less expensive than a SONET/SDH or PDH interface of the same bandwidth. Depigmentace . Ethernet also supports high bandwidths with fine granularity, which is not available with traditional SDH connections. Another distinct advantage of an Ethernet-based access network is that it can be easily connected to the customer network, due to the prevalent use of Ethernet in corporate and, more recently, residential networks. Therefore, bringing Ethernet in to the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) introduces a lot of advantages to both the service provider and the customer (corporate and residential)
A Dynamic T1 combines high-speed Internet access with feature-rich telephone functionality, providing unrivaled flexibility. Unlike Integrated T1s that reserve a certain number of channels for voice, with the remainder being used for data, Dynamic T1 voice channels don’t have to be reserved, so the bandwidth on any idle phone lines is available for data. When a phone is active, the service automatically prioritizes bandwidth, while ensuring Quality of Service (QOS) for your calls. Whether you need a single T1, bonded T1s, or a full DS3, Dynamic T1’s are a great solution.
Another type of T1 is an ISDN-PRI (Integrated Services Digital Network-Primary Rate Interface). Often this is referred to simply as a PRI. An ISDN PRI T1 might be called a T1 on steroids. The difference is that a PRI uses a D channel (data channel). A PRI uses one of the 24 channels available in a T1 as the D channel. This channel carries the customer call information and control signals rather than an actual call. Gioropavirhols The PRI phone service has 23 B-channels, or bearer channels, and one D-channel, or delta channel. The delta channel is responsible for the controls and signals for the 23 bearer channels that are used to transmit voice and data information through the lines. What this means to you, the customer, is a PRI can provide the information for Caller ID and screen pops, customer information and history that “pops up” on a computer screen prior to an incoming call being answered.
September 17, 2009– PHONE+ magazine, a resource for the telecommunications indirect sales channel, announced that STS Telecom has been selected as a Top 50 Channel Program. The results of this contest are published in the October issue of PHONE+ magazine and in the online Channel Program Guide. The winners also will be recognized at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Miami, Sept. 23-25.
| STS Telecom was selected among hundreds of companies – carriers, resellers, master agencies, and hardware and software vendors – that submitted their channel programs for the 2009 ballot. Winners were determined by the votes of nearly 1,000 indirect sales partners submitted Aug. 10-19. “Every year, PHONE+ is proud to recognize these channel programs for exceptional service to the channel,” said Mike Saxby, group publisher for PHONE+. “These companies set an example for others in telecom’s indirect channel, and we are grateful that so many partners turned out to vote for their favorites.”STS Telecom is a services provider, offering hosted VoIP, data, Internet, ACD, metro Ethernet and voice services to clients nationwide. |
PHONE+ magazine is the country’s leading publication for communication distribution channels. For more than two decades, PHONE+ has been the undisputed leader in providing news and analysis to alternate distribution channels serving the communications industry. It is the unrivaled resource for resellers, aggregators, agents, brokers, VARs, systems integrators, interconnects and dealers that provide network-based communications and computing services and associated CPE, applications and professional services. PHONE+ includes a monthly print publication, a Web resource and a weekly newsletter.
PHONE+ also hosts the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, the industry’s only event exclusively for the channel. The fall conference happens next week, Sept. 23-25, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in South Beach. The spring conference is set for March 1-3, 2010, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
NuVox, a leading communications provider across the Southeast and Midwest, announced today that its VoxIP SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) Trunking product is now compatible with NEC’s UNIVERGE SV8100 and UX5000 IP communications servers. NEC passed NuVox’s strict certification program to ensure that customers will be able to quickly and easily combine NEC hardware and NuVox’s SIP Service. This allows customers to test and certify the interoperability between VoxIP SIP and NEC’s UNIVERGE IP communication systems.
VoxIP SIP is the latest in communications technology. It efficiently utilizes bandwidth to deliver voice and data services along with enhanced, business class features. VoxIP SIP supports IP communications from the user’s IPPBX (and handset) to the NuVox cloud, providing the foundation for multimedia communications. When complemented with VoxNET Gold, NuVox’s MPLS solution, SIP also allows customers to streamline communications.
“VoxIP SIP utilizes cutting edge IP technology that will change the way businesses communicate in the future,” said Sid Earley, Vice President of Marketing for NuVox. “Together with NEC, NuVox will continue to deliver the most comprehensive communications solutions to our customers.”
“In today’s economy, the business case for VoxIP SIP Trunking from NuVox has never been clearer,” said Jay Krauser, General Manager, Core Solutions and Engineering, NEC. “By combining the potential cost savings of VoxIP with the productivity benefits of our unified communications applications and UNIVERGE SMB platforms, NEC and NuVox should be on every mid-sized company’s list for consideration.”
NEC’s award-winning UNIVERGE SV8100 Communications Server is the ideal IP telephony solution for SMBs that wish to compete and grow their businesses over time. The UNIVERGE UX5000 is a comprehensive integrated solution for smaller businesses designed to meet the unique challenges of both business telephony applications and VoIP.
In addition to NEC certification, VoxIP SIP is compatible with a variety of premise-based IPPBX systems including Cisco, Avaya, Ingate, and Digium with more hardware certifications coming later this year.
VoxIP SIP Trunking with NEC’s communication servers is now available to business customers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
About NuVox
NuVox delivers customized managed communications services, information technology, data, security, and voice solutions designed specifically for business customers. NuVox serves approximately 90,000 customers in the Southeast and Midwest, and provides select services throughout the United States. NuVox delivers services via its industry-leading MPLS-based wide area private IP network. NuVox has been certified by Cisco and is a member of the Cisco Powered Program for VoxNET, the company’s MPLS wide-area networking solution. In addition to retail solutions, NuVox also provides services to government and wholesale customers.
NuVox, a leading competitive communications provider serving businesses across the Southeast and Midwest, announced today that its data centers achieved a Statement of Auditing Standard Number 70 (SAS 70) Type I certification. Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), SAS 70 is one of the most widely recognized standards for service organizations, like NuVox, to evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls based on control objectives. To receive SAS 70 Type I certification, a third-party auditing firm assessed NuVox’s processes, safeguards, and controls associated with the physical security of its data centers.
The NuVox® VoxDCSM data center product (VoxDC) offers fortified, stand-alone facilities designed to house networking equipment for small to medium sized business customers. With uninterrupted power, 24×7 video surveillance, and redundant Internet capability, businesses greatly benefit from storing their mission-critical information and equipment in a secure environment.
“With a focus on disaster recovery and security, VoxDC offers a cost-effective solution to any business looking for a Telco-grade facility with network redundancy and experienced engineering support,” stated Jim Jones, Director of Product Management for NuVox. “Achieving SAS 70 Type I certification aligns perfectly with our data center product strategy and effectively illustrates NuVox’s continued commitment to delivering the highest quality products to our business customers.”
Earlier this year, NuVox opened dedicated VoxDC facilities in Jacksonville, FL, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA. Plans are underway to open a South Florida center in early 2010.
About NuVox:
NuVox delivers customized managed communications services, information technology, data, security, and voice solutions designed specifically for business customers. NuVox serves approximately 90,000 customers in the Southeast and Midwest, and provides select services throughout the United States. NuVox delivers services via its industry-leading MPLS-based wide area private IP network. NuVox has been certified by Cisco and is a member of the Cisco Powered Program for VoxNET, the company’s MPLS wide-area networking solution. In addition to retail solutions, NuVox also provides services to government and wholesale customers.
HERNDON, VA – August 17, 2009 – XO Communications (OTC.BB:XOHO) today announced its third nationwide network upgrade, which will more than double the capacity of the XO inter-city transport network. XO Communications has selected Infinera’s ILS2 line system to deploy the ultra-long-haul nationwide network expansion, which will deliver 160 wavelengths on a single fiber and create 1.6 Terabits/second (Tb/s) of additional optical capacity.
The capacity upgrade of XO Communications’ ultra-long-haul network will be completed later this year and will help the company continue to meet the increasing demand for high-capacity network transport solutions from carriers, service providers and large enterprise customers. The upgrade will also support XO’s unique and industry-leading Carrier Services network transport offerings, including its “Carrier Wavelength FLEX” promotion and its “10 Gigs in 10 Days” carrier service guarantee. Using the GMPLS-powered service intelligence in Infinera’s IQ(TM) network operating system, XO Communications will be able to provision any service, currently from 1 Gigabit/second (Gb/s) to 40 Gb/s, and up to 100 Gb/s in the future, between any two points on the network in 10 days or less.
XO Communications entered the United States’ long-haul market when it deployed the first-generation Infinera DTN system in 2006 and subsequently witnessed rapid market success for its portfolio of long-haul network transport services. In 2007, XO Communications again expanded its core transport network, deploying an additional 800 Gb/s of capacity on major coast-to-coast routes across the United States. The current Infinera DTN system is the only DWDM system with 160 wavelengths in the C-band and is scalable to 8 Tb/s in the future. The company has invested more than $450 million to enhance and expand its network infrastructure, services portfolio and systems — including its long-haul, metro, data and IP and interconnection networks — resulting in a network footprint that now reaches nearly half of all businesses in the United States. Through such investments, XO Communications provides customers with the most advanced, high-capacity network services available.
“We chose to continue our close relationship with Infinera because of its revolutionary technology, not to mention the world-class engineering and logistics support Infinera provides,” said Randy Nicklas, chief technology officer at XO Communications. “We recognize that bandwidth growth and the adoption of Ethernet have come at an inopportune time in the economic cycle. While many carriers are faced with tight budgets, XO continues to invest in its network, deploying the best technology and affording customers a variety of innovative products and services that offer flexibility in both price and service terms.”
“We are delighted to continue our partnership with leading nationwide service provider XO Communications,” said Infinera CEO Jagdeep Singh. “The technical and feature enhancements in our ILS2 line system coupled with its economic value proposition were designed to enable our customers to realize greater performance in their Digital Optical Network, and enhanced competitiveness in the marketplace.”
About XO Communications
XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: XOHO), is a leading nationwide provider of advanced communications services and solutions for businesses, enterprises, government, carriers and service providers. Its customers include more than half of the Fortune 500, in addition to leading cable companies, carriers, content providers and mobile network operators. Utilizing its unique combination of high-capacity nationwide and metro networks and broadband wireless capabilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services with proven performance, scalability and value in more than 75 metropolitan markets across the United States. English to Japanese dictionary For more information, visit www.xo.com.
About Infinera
Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications carriers worldwide. Infinera’s systems are unique in their use of a breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit (PIC). Infinera’s systems and PIC technology are designed to provide customers with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations, faster time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services without reengineering their optical infrastructure.
HERNDON, VA – August 12, 2009 – XO Communications (OTCBB: XOHO) today announced new enhancements to its voice over IP services portfolio that help businesses and large enterprises with distributed locations simplify and streamline their IP-based communications networks.
“With a growing number of multi-location enterprises deploying XO’s converged voice and data solutions, we knew that enhancing our nationwide VoIP services was critical to providing even more capabilities to make our customers’ networks simpler and easier to manage,” said Vince Margiotta, vice president of product marketing at XO Communications. “Moreover, our cost-effective VoIP services, together with our networking and business continuity solutions, will enable our customers to boost productivity and streamline efficiencies more than ever before.”
To date, more than 16,000 businesses nationwide with more than 680,000 end users have deployed VoIP services from XO Communications. The latest enhancements to the company’s award-winning VoIP services portfolio, which includes XO IP Flex, XO IP Flex with VPN and XO SIP, will greatly enhance the communications capabilities of mid-sized and enterprise business customers seeking a single nationwide voice and data solutions provider. The new capabilities announced today include:
Expanded Nationwide VoIP Services Coverage
XO Communications has expanded its nationwide VoIP coverage to include all 50 states. The enhancement of XO Communications’ nationwide coverage effectively doubles its VoIP footprint throughout the United States and enables the company to provide its VoIP services in 80 percent of major metropolitan markets. With virtually unrivalled nationwide reach across the country, XO is positioned as the leading communications and networking services provider for multi-location businesses. For businesses in the retail and financial services industries as well as other businesses with widely distributed locations, this expansion will further help them to streamline the management of their network, achieve increased efficiencies and reduce costs by leveraging the XO nationwide network for their multi-location requirements.
“Businesses and large enterprises with operations, branch offices or retail stores distributed across the country are often faced with the management of multiple providers and varying service types to support their communications requirements,” said Rebecca Swensen, analyst, Mobility and IP Communications Services at IDC. “These enhancements from XO facilitate simplicity, flexibility and the ability of multi-location businesses to deploy a single VoIP services platform in support of their locations nationwide.”
Increased Number of Interoperable IP-PBX Platforms for SIP Deployments
In an effort to help customers fully leverage the benefits of its converged VoIP services, XO Communications has also increased the number of IP-PBX interoperability certifications for XO SIP, its award-winning SIP trunking solution. In the past year, the company has added four new IP-PBX platforms that are interoperable with XO SIP and now supports the following platforms:
Automatic Call Routing
The company is also offering an additional level of redundancy for VoIP customers with its new Automatic Call Routing feature that provides a business continuity capability in which incoming calls can be routed to an alternate phone, landline or mobile device in the face of an unplanned event. As more companies seek to leverage the cost-savings and increased flexibility of VoIP, this new feature ensures employees are reachable and responsive regardless of their location. Automatic Call Routing is the latest addition to XO Business Continuity Solutions. Earlier this summer, the company unveiled XO Connect, a multi-modal mass notification service that enables customers to deliver urgent communications to thousands of recipients simultaneously via telephone, text message or email. The company also offers XO Anywhere, its award-winning unified communications tool for customers deploying IP Flex and IP Flex with VPN.
To learn more about XO VoIP services, go to http://www.xo.com/services/voip/Pages/overview.aspx or contact an XO representative at (866) 349-0134. To learn more about the benefits of XO VoIP services for multi-location enterprises, listen to a podcast from XO Communications here: http://xo.connectedsocialmedia.com/12/voip-the-power-of-simplity.
About XO Communications
XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: XOHO), is a leading nationwide provider of advanced communications services and solutions for businesses, enterprises, government, carriers and service providers. Its customers include more than half of the Fortune 500, in addition to leading cable companies, carriers, content providers and mobile network operators. Utilizing its unique combination of high-capacity nationwide and metro networks and broadband wireless capabilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services with proven performance, scalability and value in more than 75 metropolitan markets across the United States.
Virus writers keep getting sneakier. In an effort to evade detection, they’ve begun hiding their command and control instructions in legitimate Web 2.0 sites such as Google Groups and Twitter.
Recently, security vendor Symantec spotted a Trojan horse program that’s been programmed to visit a private Google Groups newsgroup, called escape2sun, where it can download encrypted instructions or even software updates.
These “command and control” instructions are used by criminals to keep in touch with hacked PCs and update their malicious software. Researchers have also seen criminals hide their messages in RSS feeds that are set up to broadcast Twitter messages, said Gerry Egan, a director with Symantec Security Response. “We’re seeing a trend toward using more mainstream social media-type interactions to hide command and control,” he said.
The Google Groups system appears to be a prototype, but Egan expects the bad guys to increasingly use social media sites for this purpose, as security software becomes more effective at rooting out traditional command and control mechanisms. “Malware authors are saying now that they’re on to [our] techniques, let’s try something different,” Egan said.
Today most criminals communicate with the machines they’ve hacked via IRC (Internet Relay Chat) servers, or by placing commands on obscure, hard-to-find Web sites. As system administrators are getting better at spotting and blocking these communications, the bad guys are “trying to hide these command and control messages inside legitimate traffic, so the presence of the traffic in and of itself doesn’t raise a red flag,” Egan said.
A system administrator can block access to IRC pretty easily, but blocking Twitter or Google is another matter altogether.
The Google Groups Trojan appears to be Taiwanese in origin and was probably used to quietly gather information for future attacks. According to the data on Google Groups, the Trojan has not spread widely since it was created in November 2008. “Such a Trojan could potentially have been developed for targeted corporate espionage where anonymity and discretion are priorities,” Symantec said in a Friday blog posting.
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service – Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:40PM EDT
