Net2Phone and Navini to Offer Wireless VoIP Companies Charter the Next Wave of Wi-Fi Expansion with Telephony Bundle
Monday April 26, 8:30 am ET
NEWARK, N.J. & RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004--Net2Phone (NASDAQ: NTOP - News) and Navini Networks, a leading Non-Line-of-Sight wireless broadband provider, today announced plans to empower wireless broadband connectivity with telephony services. The companies will jointly deliver Net2Phone's broadband telephony services over Navini's wireless broadband infrastructure, extending the flexibility and mobility of VoIP calling.
Under this agreement, Navini and Net2Phone will offer VoIP telephony solutions to Navini's wireless broadband customers.
Net2Phone has adapted its residential broadband telephony solution called VoiceLine to enable communications over wireless IP networks. VoiceLine provides a robust set of features and functionality, including inbound and outbound calling with applications such as phone number selection, call waiting, caller ID and voice mail. Calls are routed over Navini's Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) solution to Net2Phone's SIP-based platform, which performs call routing and management, supplies CLASS 5 features, provides billing and provisioning integration and distributes the infrastructure required for interconnecting onto and off of the Public Switched Telephone Network. Customers can place and receive local, long distance and international phone calls miles from the Navini Ripwave Base Station while stationary or portable throughout Navini's wireless metropolitan area broadband network.
"Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks are clearly the next frontier for Net2Phone, as we extend our reach beyond the wired world," said Bryan Wiener, President of Net2Phone Global Services. "Navini's technological leadership in the space and superior support for QoS will allow Net2Phone to continue its leadership position in providing high quality VoIP solutions to telecom and high speed data providers across the globe."
Wide area wireless broadband has become a viable alternative for customers to receive high-speed Internet access in rural areas and areas with low high-speed data availability where wired broadband is not an option. For Net2Phone, extending its retail VoIP offerings to the wireless environment enables Net2Phone to ride the wave of wireless broadband deployments by offering a bundle of telephony in conjunction with a high-speed wireless data product. Further enhancements to wireless VoIP will likely include VoIP enabled mobile handsets that allow consumers and business users to use the VoiceLine service anytime they are within the coverage footprint.
"Net2Phone's foresight to charter the wireless VoIP revolution makes them an ideal partner for Navini's Wireless Metropolitan Area Wireless solution, as it enables us to extend telephony to a broader market," said Alastair Westgarth, CEO of Navini Networks. "Our service provider customers are asking for value-added services, and we believe the converged telephony bundle will serve as a valuable application to deliver both value and affordability."
The new relationship builds on Net2Phone's strategy to enable service providers with an outsourced telephony offering that they can sell to their subscribers. As an enabler, Net2Phone draws on its hosted services platform that allows the development and support of multiple voice applications and back office integration tools all using the same infrastructure.
About Net2Phone
Net2Phone provides PacketCable, SIP and wireless VoIP solutions around the world. As a leader in enabling telecom service providers and cable operators with turn-key hosted VoIP telephony services, Net2Phone has routed billions of retail VoIP minutes globally, servicing more than 100,000 users in the US as well as hundreds of thousands of more overseas. Net2Phone's hosted SIP platform provides partners with residential broadband telephony, calling cards, prefix dialing and enterprise services in over 100 countries. Net2Phone's PacketCable platform provides cable operators with the ability to deliver a primary line replacement service with guaranteed QoS and features such as E911. Traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol NTOP, Net2Phone's strategic partners and investors include Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE: L; LMC.B) and IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT; IDT.C). For more information about Net2Phone's products and services, please visit www.net2phone.com .
About Navini Networks
Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, Navini Networks and its customers have deployed wide-area wireless broadband technology delivering multi-megabit speeds to customers in more than 25 countries worldwide. The Navini solution is nomadic, easy to install and does not require a line-of-sight. Navini Networks' Ripwave(tm) products consist of a desktop modem or PCMCIA card, base station, and element management system (EMS) and operate in various licensed and unlicensed frequencies. Navini's investors include Austin Ventures, Granite Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sternhill Partners, as well as Alcatel, Intel and Sanmina. For more information, please visit www.navini.com . |
