Lightyear Selects Edgewater’s Application-Aware
Networking™ Solution To Enhance Delivery of Lightyear XSTREAM℠
VoIP Services
Santa Clara, Calif. – March 10, 2005 –
Edgewater Networks, Inc., the leader in Application-Aware Networking,
today announced that Lightyear Network Solutions, LLC has chosen Edgewater’s
VoIP networking, security and monitoring solutions for use in the Lightyear
XSTREAM EnterpriseIP VoIP service. Using the Edgewater solution provides
Lightyear and their customers with comprehensive VoIP aware security
while simplifying the installation and ongoing maintenance of the VoIP
service.
“Edgewater is the only vendor that provides a complete solution
optimized for hosted IP telephony applications,” said Bruce Widener,
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development “Their solution includes
a range of customer premises products, network-based session border
controllers and a VoIP specific network management platform that work
in combination to bring significant enhancements to the Lightyear XSTREAM
EnterpriseIP offering.”
Edgewater’s products are designed to meet the rigorous demands
of business class VoIP service offerings by providing voice and data
security, bandwidth management that optimizes voice quality while maximizing
data performance, VoIP survivability, call quality monitoring and advanced
diagnostics that enable providers to proactively identify issues that
affect service quality.
“We are very excited about our new partnership with Lightyear,”
said Dave Norman, Chief Executive Officer of Edgewater Networks, Inc.
“They are a leading competitive local exchange carrier with a
track record of providing outstanding products backed by superior customer
service.”
For more information about Edgewater please visit our website at www.edgewaternetworks.com
or contact us at sales@edgewaternetworks.com.
About Edgewater Networks, Inc.
Edgewater Networks is a global leader in Application-Aware Networking™
solutions that ensure the secure and reliable delivery of real-time,
IP based communications. EdgeMarc Series appliances provide a SIP, MGCP
or H.323 VoIP aware NAT/Firewall, VoIP survivability, passive call quality
monitoring and powerful but easy-to-use traffic management that ensures
high quality voice and video. EdgeProtect Series session border controllers
protect critical voice and video infrastructure elements from network
based attacks and extend the reach of voice and video services. The
EdgeView network management system is used to monitor network-wide call
quality and provides diagnostic tools to quickly identify networking
issues that negatively impact call quality. For more information about
Edgewater Networks, Inc. please visit the company’s website at
www.edgewaternetworks.com or contact Dave Martin at 408.351.7209.
About Lightyear
The foundation for Lightyear Network Solutions, LLC was set in 1993
when UniDial Communications pioneered the Independent Agent Program
establishing a network of telecom consultants and customer service experts.
Today, Lightyear is a national sales and marketing organization with
over eleven years experience providing communications services and solutions
to both commercial and residential customers. As a leading industry
innovator, Lightyear recently launched Lightyear XSTREAM℠, a new
suite of products including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) business and residential phone services.
Lightyear is powered by an independent national sales force of Lightyear
Agent Partners and Lightyear Alliance Representatives. In the course
of normal business, Lightyear serves more than 100,000 customers nationwide
generating annual revenue of nearly $100 million. For more information,
call 1-800-805-8383 or go to www.lightyear.net
