By Bruce Christian
The news continued apace in Washington D.C. during the spring INCOMPAS event on competitive telecom.
WOW! Wholesale to Invest Near-Net Fiber Strategy in 18 Markets
WOW! Wholesale, a division of WOW! Business, announced will invest in and aggressively pursue a near-net fiber strategy to provide broadband access to more commercial buildings in 18 Midwest and Southeast markets.
Establishing fiber-based network points-of-presence in hundreds of commercial buildings near its own metro Ethernet networks enables WOW! Wholesale to expand the addressable market for its service provider customers, along with increasing new business opportunities through WOW! Business direct and indirect sales channels.
In the process, the company expects to leverage its local fiber assets by driving more broadband traffic onto its metro Ethernet networks.
“By lighting more buildings near our own local fiber networks and revamping our pricing structure to make it more attractive and disruptive for wholesale and retail customers, we expect to significantly expand our metro Ethernet access business,” said Jim Greene, director, WOW! Wholesale. “As we establish fiber-based network points-of-presence in hundreds of commercial buildings in these 18 markets, high-speed dedicated Internet access, voice, data and cloud services will become available to the tenants located in those buildings.”
WOW! Wholesale already has begun to implement its near-net fiber strategy by extending its fiber network to a number of buildings near Wacker Drive in the downtown Chicago central business district and 17 other cities in the markets it serves.
The cities targeted in the company’s near-net fiber strategy includes: Auburn, Dothan, Huntsville, Montgomery and Valley, Ala.; Panama City and St. Petersburg, Fla.; Augusta, Columbus and Fort Gordon, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; Chicago; Evansville, Ind.; Detroit and Lansing, Mich.; Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; and Knoxville, Tenn.
WOW! Business provides IP‐based network, data, voice and cloud services for small and medium‐sized business (SMB), enterprise, government and wholesale customers. The company owns and operates more than 40,000 miles of local fiber‐optic and coaxial networks in the Midwest, Mid‐Atlantic and Southeast, which, along with its data centers, provide customers with scalable, low‐latency access to national carrier backbones.
For more information about WOW! Wholesale services please visit https://www.wowforbusiness.com/company/wholesale.
ANPI Opens UCaaS Solution to VARs and MSPs
ANPI, a provider of unified communications as a service (UCaaS) solutions, announced it will offer its award-winning UCaaS solution to VARs and MSPs for private label.
With the private label solution, ANPI provides all the advanced features, tools and collateral so a provider can market, sell and deliver an innovative, custom-branded UCaaS solution.
The fully-integrated solution includes hosted IP PBX functionality with unified messaging, presence, multimedia collaboration and seamlessly integrated mobility supported by a carrier-grade network and enablement resources that allows partners to be selling in 90 days.
ANPI has enabled more than 100 ILECs to sell their own branded solution.
“The UCaaS market is a multi-billion dollar marketplace with a tremendous growth profile, and with ANPI’s unfolding suite of UCaaS solutions, we are well positioned to realize the opportunities in this growing and vibrant marketplace,” said Mike Cromwell, ANPI CSO/CMO.
ANPI can enable a partner to be up and running with its own branded offering in less than 90 days.
The most unique aspect of ANPI’s offering is its “build-to-bill” order and customer management platform. The software platform, known as Atlas, consolidates order management, fulfillment, provisioning and customer care of the solution into a single platform, giving providers complete control and a personalized process management experience.
ANPI has invested more than $24 million into the UCaaS solution and built it on top of a carrier-grade voice network transports billions of minutes per year.
The UCaaS solution was purpose-built from the ground up to enable ANPI partners the ability to own the customer experience from proposal through implementation.
ANPI offers a private label hosted unified communications solution for carriers and as direct connections, wholesale long distance, peering, tandem access and SS7 solutions.
Based in Springfield, Ill., ANPI began serving rural telecom companies in 1996, and today serves the voice and data needs of nearly 800 ILECs, CLECs, IXCs and regional wireless carriers, as well as more than a thousand business customers throughout the United States.
ANPI also owns and operates a nationwide IP network with switching and/or PoP facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and New York City, and monitors all activity around-the-clock in its own network operations center.
For more information, go to www.anpi.com or call 877-366-2674.
Equinox Added to Broadsoft’s Xtended Solution Partner Program
Nashville-based Equinox Information Systems announced its addition to BroadSoft’s Xtended Solution Partner program.
Since 1986, Equinox has been helping customers in the telecommunications industry stop fraud, mediate usage data, manage expense and optimize revenue. Its business assurance solutions, TeleLink and Protector, both support and are interoperable with BroadSoft’s BroadWorks platform, qualifying Equinox for inclusion in the list of solutions providers BroadSoft maintains as part its Xtended Ecosystem.
“BroadSoft’s Xtended Partner program reaffirms our commitment to an open platform strategy that enables the seamless interoperability and integration of BroadSoft’s unified communications services with devices, systems and third-party applications,” said Steven Kaish, vice president, partner ecosystem, BroadSoft.
“We are thrilled to add Equinox Information Systems to our growing partner ecosystem, as it will allow service providers to confidently deploy business assurance solutions that integrate easily with their existing equipment and usage records,” Kaish added.
Equinox specializes in two product lines. TeleLink solves business assurance challenges by making usage data actionable. It does so by mediating, enriching and summarizing usage data from the raw files it collects. TeleLink stores this data for reporting and in-depth analysis, while also transforming it for delivery to downstream operational and business support systems.
Protector is an automated fraud management system that monitors call and data usage records for real-time fraud detection. Currently monitoring hundreds of millions of call records per day for its customers, Protector has earned a reputation as the most reliable and cost-effective solution on the market by saving carriers hundreds of millions of dollars in annual fraud losses.
“Over the past 29 years, we have deployed Equinox solutions to mediate, process, protect, and store data for numerous customers whose networks include BroadSoft equipment,” said Equinox’s Executive Vice President David West. “We appreciate BroadSoft’s formal recognition of our applications’ interoperability by adding us to their Solution Partner Program.”
To learn more about BroadSoft, visit www.broadsoft.com.
Founded in 1986, Equinox’ solutions are scalable, reliable, and interoperable, Equinox serves every sector of the telecom industry, including cable/MSO, wireless, wireline, ILEC, CLEC, VoIP, and wholesale providers around the globe.
For more information, visit booth 208 in the Expo Hall or go to www.equinoxis.com.
