Speakeasy Launches Direct SIP for Integrated Voice

Speakeasy expands SIP services to connect directly with IP PBX vendors through any legacy communication infrastructure

SEATTLE, March 2 /PRNewswire/ — Speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net), a Best Buy company (NYSE: BBY), has expanded its SIP IP voice and data integration capability as part of its comprehensive ‘Integrated Voice’ service. Speakeasy can now provide combined voice and data service over direct SIP trunks (Session Initiation Protocol), in addition to its existing service over analog and digital lines. Speakeasy’s Integrated Voice connects to a traditional key system or PBX, and now with direct SIP, to an IP PBX, making it easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of Speakeasy Voice.

To support direct SIP, Speakeasy plans to certify eight of the major IP PBX hardware manufacturers. Speakeasy has certified the ADTRAN Netvanta 7100 and Fonality trixbox Community Edition (CE).

“With Direct SIP, Speakeasy can offer integrated voice and data regardless what kind of phone system a customer may have in place, allowing us to expand our customer pipeline and make it even simpler for small and mid-sized businesses to access high-value, low-cost Voice over IP telecom services,” said Bruce Chatterley, Speakeasy President and CEO. “This new service solidifies Speakeasy’s position as a full-service voice and data provider and creates yet another attractive option to avoid the comparatively enormous costs of traditional telecom services.”

“ADTRAN is pleased to be a Speakeasy solution partner with our NetVanta 7100 IP Communications Platform,” said Dennis Gatens, director of strategy, ADTRAN Enterprise Networks Division. “The NetVanta 7100 when combined with Speakeasy Direct SIP service offers the small and mid-sized business and enterprise end user a feature-rich, high- quality cost-effective converged voice and data solution. Part of our portfolio of solutions that deliver innovation from the demarc to the desktop, the NetVanta 7100 is an excellent, long-term capital investment particularly in these challenging economic times.”

“Fonality is delighted that our trixbox CE is certified for interoperability with Speakeasy’s direct SIP functionality,” said Andrew Gillis, Fonality trixbox CE community director. “Speakeasy is a valued partner in the industry, and Fonality is looking forward to taking advantage of direct SIP to deliver even greater value to our customer base.”

With Speakeasy’s Integrated Voice, available bandwidth is automatically allocated to data transmission, such as e-mail and general Web use, when calls are not in use. This optimizes the customer’s network utilization. In addition, by using an optional VoIP codex, G.729, customers can free up even more data bandwidth by further compressing voice traffic.

About Speakeasy

Speakeasy is one of the nation’s leading broadband voice (VoIP), data and IT service providers. Speakeasy helps small businesses succeed by offering simplified voice and data solutions that improve the customer experience, increase employee productivity and help cut costs. Based in Seattle, Speakeasy has provided award-winning customer service since 1994 and joined the Best Buy family of companies in April 2007, working with Best Buy For Business to champion technology for small businesses throughout the U.S. Visit Speakeasy at www.speakeasy.net or call 800.556.5829.

About ADTRAN

ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment, with a portfolio of more than 1,700 solutions for use in the last mile of today’s telecommunications networks. Widely deployed by carriers and enterprises alike, ADTRAN solutions enable voice, data, video, and Internet communications across copper, fiber, and wireless network infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by every major U.S. service provider and many global ones, as well as by thousands of public, private and governmental organizations worldwide.

For more information, contact the company at 800 9ADTRAN (800 923-8726) or via email at info@adtran.com. On the Web, visit www.adtran.com.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium–sized businesses. Used by more than 5,000 companies and 125,000 end users in more than 100 countries, Fonality’s award winning IP–PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 350,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox(R) Pro product lines are based on Fonality’s patent–pending Anywhere Management(TM) Hybrid–Hosted(TM) architecture, and deliver the advanced capabilities of an enterprise–class phone system for 40 to 80 percent less than traditional offerings. Fonality’s fully free and open source telephony platform, trixbox CE (www.trixbox.org), is home to one of the world’s largest and fastest growing communities of open source telephony users, with more than 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality’s headquarters are in Los Angeles with additional offices in Australia and Argentina. Company investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, Intel Capital, and Azure Capital Partners.

Fonality, PBXtra, and trixbox are registered trademarks and Hybrid-Hosted and Anywhere Management are trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

SOURCE Speakeasy