August 19, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — SAVVIS Communications (savvis.com), an IP managed services provider, and AccessLine Communications (accesssline.com), a provider of hosted communications and managed voice services, announced yesterdat a strategic partnership agreement to provide a suite of managed voice services for enterprise telecom environments.
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Under the terms, SAVVIS will integrate AccessLine?s VoIP soft switch and voice application technology into its IP network and hosting centers. This integration will produce, according to the company, a suite of fully managed voice services that enable enterprises to layer a broad set of telephony services over any voice network.
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“The SAVVIS partnership culminates our search for a high performance IP network infrastructure provider to deliver our premium voice services on a global scale,” said Doug Johnson, president and CEO of AccessLine Communications.
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The agreement also calls for the companies to enter into exclusive partnerships, with AccessLine becoming SAVVIS? preferred voice provider and SAVVIS acquiring status as AccessLine?s preferred network provider.
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“By choosing AccessLine as our exclusive voice services partner, we have significantly accelerated delivery of voice services and are addressing our customers’ needs with time-tested solutions,” said Rob McCormick, chairman & CEO of SAVVIS. “AccessLine has proven that they are by far the industry leader in this space, successfully delivering best-of-class voice applications and solutions at a compelling ROI to companies like IBM and Sun Microsystems. The SAVVIS/AccessLine solution will prove to be a very strong value to the enterprise customer.”
