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BCS Global Networks Deploys IP Unity for New Unified Messaging Service
Milpitas, Calif. and Toronto, Ontario — March 7, 2005— BCS Global Networks Inc. (TSX-V: BGN), a leading provider of IP-based voice, video and data services, today announced that it is launching a new unified messaging service from IP Unity. BCS Global will deliver the new service to current and prospective carriers throughout Canada on a wholesale basis. BCS Global Networks has chosen IP Unity‰s award-winning HMS6000™ media server for this deployment.
‹For this new deployment, we needed a messaging provider with a highly responsive engineering team, said Piero Romani, President and CEO of BCS Global Networks. ‹We also needed to be able to configure all messaging audio, text-to-speech, greetings, announcements from one scalable platform, and deliver a high level of language and functional customization in a secure, partitioned, multi-tenant environment. IP Unity's system was a solid fit for our requirements and worked seamlessly with our architecture. Because we plan to expand further into new service delivery, IP Unity's many services, one platform business approach offers us a lot of runway for seamlessly adding features and functionality.
BCS Global Networks launched to market as an innovative IP based videoconferencing service provider in 2000, with Virtual Presence™ for small and medium enterprises. Following the company's May 2004 acquisition of IPConvergence, a company specializing in IP based telephony solutions, BCS evolved to offer a converged hosted voice, video and data collaboration service to North American enterprises. In order to accelerate its market penetration, BCS Global Networks has adopted a sales engagement process based on a wholesale model, driven by channel partners. Through IPConvergence, BCS will now offer wholesale-hosted IP telephony services, including unified messaging, to enterprise customers through multiple service providers.
‹The BCS Global team is very impressive and has its finger precisely on the pulse of its core business customers as well as the increasingly demanding wholesale services prospects, said Arun Sobti, CEO of IP Unity. ‹BCS Global Networks is extremely well-run; the organization is lean and responsive, and they have a solid plan for new service expansion into the future. We're pleased that they've chosen to base their market expansion on IP Unity's HMS6000.
About Movius
Movius Interactive Corporation gives people the power to enrich their lives through viable innovations that transform the way they interact with information, media and each other. Formerly under the name IP Unity Glenayre, Movius is a recognized leader in messaging, collaboration and mobile media solutions for service providers worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.moviuscorp.com.
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