Inclarity to Leverage Comverse Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) Offering to Enable New Revenue Sources for Enterprise Customers
Comverse, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced that Inclarity, a UK-based provider of hosted voice over IP (VoIP) solutions, has selected Comverse IPCentrex™ and IP Trunking Solutions to provide FMC services to its enterprise customers.
“Inclarity’s vision is to enable companies of all sizes to communicate more effectively and efficiently,” commented Adrian Hughes, CEO of Inclarity. “Comverse is our strategic partner and we have been working with them for over five years to extend our footprint in the managed VoIP market. Comverse Converged IPCentrex enables us to sharpen our differentiation and offer real FMC for the first time, enabling our customers to be more flexible in their communications and significantly cut costs.”
Comverse offers a range of solutions that enable operators and service providers to deliver hosted telephony services to all sizes of businesses with various needs and work styles, including office-based, remote workers, nomadic workers and frequent travelers. The solutions include advanced telephony features and integrated applications, such as unified communications and messaging, conferencing, automated attendant services, and Web-based personal self-care portals. These services are available from fixed IP phones or dual-mode WiFi/cellular handsets.
The Comverse IP Trunking solution embeds an integrated session border controller (SBC) that enables service providers to provide a secure fixed telephony service for calls to and from the enterprise PBXs that bypass the PSTN. Service providers can also offer a cost-effective enterprise VPN solution for handling the telephony traffic between the enterprise sites.
“We are pleased to be a part of Inclarity’s plans for expansion into the hosted telephony market for the enterprise segment,” said Benny Einhorn, President of EMEA and Corporate Chief Marketing Officer of Comverse. “Our award-winning Converged IPCentrex includes sophisticated IP telephony and FMC services that increase employee satisfaction and enterprise productivity. In today’s converging telecommunications landscape, the roles of service providers are becoming blurred and Comverse solutions for Converged IP Communications, Converged Billing and Value-added Services, support operators’ initiatives to strengthen market position.”
About Inclarity
Inclarity is dedicated to the delivery of enhanced communications services, offering service solutions that increase revenue, attract and retain customers, and place them ahead of their competition.
Inclarity's Hosted IP Telephony division offers the most comprehensive business level VoIP service available, encompassing business grade IP Centrex functionality, telco capabilities and a complete service wrap around. Inclarity's Global Satellite Networking Solutions division works with local partners in commercial markets to provide optimum communications and infrastructure, facilitating smooth communications in and out of these markets. Utilising satellite networks, its solutions are unsurpassable in terms of availability, reliability, geographical reach and cost effectiveness. In addition Inclarity is an accredited iPass partner; the iPassConnect™ software powers Inclarity's Internet Roaming service, providing local-rate access to the Internet and Wi-Fi hotspots connectivity from all over the world. Inclarity was ranked 74th fastest growing technology company in EMEA on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 index (up from 109th place the previous year). For more information, please visit
www.inclarity.co.uk
About Comverse
Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based messaging and content value-added services, converged billing and IP communications. Comverse solutions generate revenues, strengthen customer loyalty and improve operational efficiency for over 500 communication service providers in more than 130 countries. The company's Total CommunicationSM portfolio facilitates personalized lifestyles in an evolving connected world and is based on the holistic InSight™ Open Services Environment. Comverse’s solutions support flexible deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services, and can run on circuit-switched, VoIP, IMS and converged network environments. Comverse is a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (CMVT.PK). For more information, visit
www.comverse.com.
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