Telverse Lights Up The World AG Expo By Providing Thousands Of IP-Based Phone Calls

- Thousands of minutes of VOIP calls enabled through joint effort between Telverse, TeliPath, Edgewater Networks, Proxim, Polycom and Cisco

February 14, 2003 - Telverse Communications provided its ‘Business Tone’ VoIP service to over 200,000 participants at the World Agricultural Exposition February 11-13th. Over this three-day period, over 500 individuals placed over 10,000 minutes worth of calls. To deliver the services, Telverse joined hands with TeliPath, Proxim, Polycom, Cisco and Edgewater Networks.

Using the Telverse service, participants at the Expo were given free Internet access and could make outbound calls across the United States. TeliPath and Proxim provided the last mile connectivity, 1.5 MBPS, while Telverse provided the IP-based phone services. Edgewater Networks ensured high quality voice calls with its Edgewater E30, which provides voice QoS with traffic shaping, IP phone management, NAT and many other features.

“In addition to providing a public service for the farm show participants, we also were able to demonstrate the high quality service we provide. Thousands IP-enabled calls over such a short period of time without any disruption of service proves that Telverse can scale in addition to offering the inherent savings associated with our services.” Matt Collier, CEO and President of Telverse Communications.

Telverse is a wholesale service provider offering ‘Business Tone’ services to carriers throughout the United States. ‘Business Tone’ is a suite of managed, IP-based communications services including : unified communications, web-enabled conferencing, and Class 5 voice services.

About Telverse Communications
Telverse Communications offers wholesale IP voice, video and data services for rapid deployment of reliable, scalable and customizable IP communication applications throughout the U.S. Telverse ‘Business Tone’ service is delivered via broadband or traditional networks and is accessible through a wide range of devices. Additional information is available at http://www.telverse.com/.

About Edgewater Networks, Inc.
Edgewater Networks offers VoIP Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) providing VoIP-aware Firewall and NAT, as well as, sophisticated traffic shaping, call limiting, line-performance testing and IP phone management tools. For more information visit the company’s Web site at www.edgewaternetworks.com.