Patton-ABP-Broadvox Alliance Launches VoIPReady(TM) Solutions Today at IP Sizzles

the leader in business and carrier-class VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), network access, connectivity, and video surveillance equipment, joins ABP Research--value-added distributor of IP Telephony and IP Video solutions--at the eighth annual IP Sizzles conference today to unveil and promote the new VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)Ready(TM) offering.

With ABP's VoIPReady(TM) program, integrators and resellers can attract new enterprise clients and increase profits by delivering survivable, value-added SIP-trunking solutions that in essence bootstrap themselves.

The cost savings

VoIPReady end-clients can realize the cost savings and worker productivity of survivable SIP-based communications, during preserving and leveraging existing voice equipment just as Key Systems or PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange)-based phone systems.

"It's like getting a new business phone system-in-a-box," said Robert Messer, president of ABP, "that connects with all your existing phone equipment. The new phone lines are 100% SIP-based, offering all the advantages of IP telephony... lowered costs, richer features, teleworking capabilities--everything with no headaches and no hassles."

Easy way for a business to take the plunge

"It is an easy way for a business to take the plunge," said Sean Gerrity, Patton Sales Director for North America and Japan. "In a relatively short time, the money saved with SIP trunking can fund future purchases toward all-IP communications, just as an iPBX or SIP-based hard or soft-phones."

VoIPReady delivers fully-provisioned, tested, and quality-assured SIP-trunking solutions based on Patton's SmartNode VoIP CPE products, pre-configured by ABP for interoperation with Broadvox SIP trunking services.

"ABP completely pre-configures and fully tests each VoIPReady solution on the carrier end previously it ever ships," Messer explains. "VoIPReady solutions take all the complications out of customer-site implementation."

"VoIPReady at heart makes system activation a no-brainer," Gerrity observes. "Once the components are plugged in and turned on, the system sends a ping back to Broadvox, at that time it all lights up and starts working."

ABP's reseller partners can order new pre-configured lines, or get a block of temporary numbers to use on the spur of the moment--forwarding the old lines during waiting for the old telephone numbers to get ported.

The customer end

To handle any network deployment issues on the customer end, ABP's trained staff of Patton Certified SmartNode Specialists offers first-line technical support to resellers or the end-customer's IT team.

"We of that sort SmartNode VoIP gateways, routers and IADs are manufactured in the USA," Messer adds. "The reliable high-quality of American-made products is a major feature for value-added resellers."