
|
 |
 |
Net2Phone
and Quintum Join Forces for Enterprise Solutions
Partnership Allows New and Existing Quintum Customers to Place
VoIP Calls Globally Through Net2Phone
Newark, NJ and Eatontown, NJ- March 30, 2004 - Net2Phone (Nasdaq:
NTOP), the leading provider of retail Voice over IP (VoIP) services,
and Quintum, a leading manufacturer of Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions
for enterprises, today announced that they have signed an agreement
to jointly market Net2Phones VoIP enterprise services with
Quintums Tenor VoIP MultiPath Switches and gateways.
Under the multi-year agreement, Net2Phone and Quintum will integrate
VoIP services with enterprise VoIP MultiPath Switches and market
the solution as a bundled telephony offering. The bundle will include
a configuration wizard that can be used with new models
of Tenor VoIP equipment to simplify the user experience and allow
customers to easily set their gateways to offer low-cost calling
over the Net2Phone network. With 250,000 IP ports already deployed,
Quintum boasts a distribution group of over 200 resellers spanning
70 countries. Net2Phone has established a robust global network
through which their products and services are offered. Net2Phone
and Quintum will make this bundled VoIP offering available to its
current and future customers via their distribution channels to
corporate customers worldwide.
A joint offer of Net2Phone service with Quintums line
of VoIP equipment delivers tremendous value to customers,
said Kurt Baumann, President at Quintum. Our intelligent VoIP
switches provide superb value to our corporate customers who are
already using VoIP for their on-net calling. By adding off-net calling
globally to any telephone via Net2Phones robust platform and
network, customers now can have the kind of functionality that takes
them to the next level of service, with confidence that they are
supported by a company known for its high quality of service.
Were pleased to create this joint offer to provide
valuable off-net calling with Quintum, a recognized leader in the
SME VoIP market, said Bryan Wiener, President of Net2Phone
Global Services. This partnership allows us to build on the
trust that Quintum has developed in the market with customers who
have grown to expect high quality from its products and services.
This joint offering complements our enterprise strategy to deliver
flexible and affordable solutions to small and mid sized businesses
looking for the feature-rich applications and flexibility that VoIP
has to offer.
The offering builds on Net2Phone Global Services strategy
to offer hosted telecommunications solutions to partners globally,
enabling them to offer low-cost VoIP services to their customers
quickly, easily and at a low incremental cost. As a hosted provider,
Net2Phone empowers partners with the tools they need to offer consumer
and corporate customers a full suite of telecommunications services,
including calling cards, corporate solutions, VoIP services for
Internet cafes and public call centers, and prefix code dialing
services. Net2Phone enables partners to expedite their time to market
while benefiting from outsourcing their deployments to Net2Phone,
a provider that has the technical expertise, robust back-office
and worldwide network to support multiple services on a single platform.
About Net2Phone
Net2Phone is the only provider of PacketCable, SIP and wireless
VoIP solutions in the world. As leaders in enabling telecom service
providers and cable operators with turn-key hosted VoIP telephony
services, Net2Phone has routed billions of retail VoIP minutes globally,
servicing more than 100,000 users in the US as well as hundreds
of thousands of more overseas. Net2Phones hosted SIP platform
provides partners with residential broadband telephony, calling
cards, prefix dialing and enterprise services in over 100 countries.
Net2Phones PacketCable platform provides cable operators with
the ability to deliver a primary line replacement service with guaranteed
QoS and features such as E911. Traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol
NTOP, Net2Phone's strategic partners and investors include Liberty
Media Corporation (NYSE: L; LMC.B) and IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT;
IDT.C). For more information about Net2Phone's products and services,
please visit www.net2phone.com <http://www.net2phone.com>.
About Quintum Technologies, Inc.
Headquartered in Eatontown, NJ, Quintum specializes in voice-over-IP
technologies that bring reliability and voice clarity of public
telephone networks to Internet telephony. Its Tenor VoIP MultiPath
switch product lines are designed to help businesses of all sizes
achieve a risk free migration to a converged network. Quintums
Tenor product line offers a wide range of unique features that differentiate
it from other VoIP solutions. These features include real time PSTN
failover that eliminates risk from poor IP Quality of Service, MultiPath
call routing allowing easy installation into existing data and telecom
environments, and transparent communication across NAT (network
address translation) firewalls. Quintum Technologies sells its MultiPath
switches worldwide through its direct sales force and a network
of resellers and distributors. For more information call 1-877-SPEAK
IP (1-877-773-2547) in the US, 732-460-9000 outside the US, or visit
www.quintum.com <http://www.quintum.com>.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
These forward- looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
and actual results could differ materially from those discussed
in the forward-looking statements. For this purpose, any statements
contained in this press release that are not statements of historical
fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Factors which
may affect the Company's results include, but are not limited to,
the Company's ability to expand its customer base, the Company's
ability to develop additional and leverage its existing distribution
channels for its products and solutions, dependence on strategic
and channel partners including their ability to distribute the Company's
products and meet or renew their financial commitments, the Company's
ability to address international markets, the effectiveness of the
Company's sales and marketing activities, the acceptance of the
Company's products in the marketplace, the timing and scope of deployments
of the Company's products by customers, fluctuations in customer
sales cycles, customers' ability to obtain additional funding, technical
difficulties with respect to the Company's products or products
in development, the need for ongoing product development in an environment
of rapid technological change, the emergence of new competitors
in the marketplace, the Company's ability to compete successfully
against established competitors with greater resources, the uncertainty
of future governmental regulation, the Company's ability to manage
growth, obtain patent protection, and obtain additional funds, general
economic conditions and other risks discussed in this Report and
in the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. All forward-looking statements and risk factors included
in this document are made as of the date hereof, based on information
available to the Company as of the date thereof, and the Company
assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or
risk factors.
|
 |
 |