ANPI, BroadSoft and Sonus Networks are teaming up create a wholesale, cloud?based unified communications (UC) solution for rural telecommunications service providers focused on serving the small and medium business (SMB) market.
Technological and regulatory modifications are introducing unprecedented change to historic business models for rural service providers in the United States. The collaboration among ANPI, BroadSoft and Sonus will leverage their respective capabilities to develop technologies and support solutions tailored to meet the needs and help propel the growth of rural service
ANPI has provided voice and data solutions to rural local exchange carriers for more than 17 years, and currently services nearly 800 carrier customers across the U.S. It has now expanded its nationwide network of switching centers using Sonus’ session border controllers (SBCs), gateways and its network policy solution, which are fully integrated with BroadSoft’s BroadWorks for delivering these UC services.
“Our carriers needed a trusted partner who could provide a true end?to?end solution that seamlessly integrates industry?leading applications delivered across industry?leading platforms,” said Dave Lewis, ANPI CEO. “With the collaboration announced today, the companies are leveraging a high level of technology leadership and domain depth to deliver UC services that meet the needs of the evolving rural telecommunications market.”
He added this in the first three weeks since introducing the UC solution there has been a “good deal of initial market interest from rural carriers.”
RLECs are looking to substantially lower their service delivery costs, reduce capital investments and significantly accelerate the rate of service innovation that they are able to deliver to the marketplace.
“This collaboration represents our commitment to enabling carriers to deliver smarter and faster business communications,” said Todd Abbott, executive vice president of Strategy & Go to Market at Sonus. “It is evident that the service model for all carriers must evolve to address regulatory changes and to take advantage of technological innovation which is a cornerstone of Sonus. We believe that the combination of ANPI’s deep knowledge of the RLEC space matched with BroadSoft’s award?winning hosted UC platform and our ability to help companies fully leverage their communications networks via SIP, creates a real opportunity to re?write the economic equation of service delivery for RLECs by lowering costs, increasing market opportunity and prompting faster time to service deployments.”
