Cary, NC -- August 5, 2009 - Bandwidth.com today announced that it has started an enterprise sales team and aligned its channel efforts to provide better support for responding to enterprise Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) opportunities.
"We have seen a surge in enterprise VoIP opportunities in 2009, as CIOs have begun to realize the compelling user features and dramatic cost savings of moving to VoIP," said Jeff Uphues, VP of Sales for Bandwidth.com. "Bandwidth.com's purpose-built 100% IP voice network, combined with our nationwide CLEC status, give us a unique advantage to service multi-location enterprises as they transition to VoIP."
A recent survey of 1400 CIOs by Robert Half Technology (Top 10 Tech Investments, April 13th, 2009) confirms the enterprise interest, as VoIP was the fourth most frequently cited area for IT investment in the next 12 months, with the benefits of "lower monthly phone bills, greater network flexibility and unified messaging." Those benefits, however, must be realized without giving up the quality-of-service and redundancy that enterprises are used to, and Bandwidth.com is a leader in architecting VoIP solutions that include disaster recovery, redundancy, centralization and quality-of-service.
While Bandwidth.com has traditionally been seen as an SMB data and voice provider, with over 5,000 customers nationwide, large enterprise deals now comprise close to 30% of monthly revenue, and growing. This has allowed Bandwidth.com to partner with some of the best enterprise distributors and solution providers in the US.
According to Ian Kieninger, general manager of carrier services business for CDW, an $8.1billion provider of technology solutions for business, government and education: "Bandwidth.com Voice and Data services have been available to our business customers for several years. What attracts our agents and customers to Bandwidth.com is the pure business focus, great customer support, and their ability to support CDW in servicing enterprise accounts. Bandwidth.com is focused on providing solutions and working collaboratively, which ultimately benefits our end customers."
Ken Mercer, Sr. Vice-President of Telecom Brokerage, Inc. (TBI), a premier Master Agent for telecom services, commented: "The fact that Bandwidth.com has built their own nationwide VoIP network shows the depth of their technical expertise and telecom experience. That is the type of partner that makes enterprises feel comfortable about making a migration to a new technology that ultimately has great cost-savings benefits. Bandwidth.com is a great enabler for adoption of IP-PBX's and next generation enterprise phone systems."
With its expanded focus on enterprise opportunities, Bandwidth.com is promoting aggressive pricing for large-minute deals in order to take advantage of the capacity of its new VoIP network. Additionally, Bandwidth.com's industry-leading PBX testing program now has over 30 tested PBXs, verified to work with its SIP Trunking service, to enable enterprises to deploy the PBX hardware of their choice without having to worry about interoperability.
To contact Bandwidth.com about supporting your enterprise VoIP opportunities, call (888) 292-8277 or e-mail partners@bandwidth.com
About Bandwidth.com
As the proud owner of a purpose-built, IP voice network, Bandwidth.com, a nationwide CLEC, has rocketed toward the top of the business VoIP market with a combination of rock-solid services, business-class support and a strong, stable balance sheet. Bandwidth.com has been recognized as the fastest growing private telecom company in the US by Inc. Magazine for 3 years running (2006-2008), and is on pace to deliver over 4 billion minutes of voice traffic in 2009. As a complete business communications provider, Bandwidth.com offers IP voice (VoIP), hosted VoIP, data and managed network services, powered by our nationwide, 100% IP voice network and supported by in-house, 24/7/365 customer service. For more information call (800) 808-5150, visit twitter.com/bandwidth.
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