Pandora Networks Selects XO Communications as a Primary Provider of
VoIP and Data Network Services for Worksmart(TM) On Demand IP
Communications(TM) Service
September 26, 2005
RESTON, Va. & EMERYVILLE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 26, 2005 -
- Pandora Networks (http://www.pandoranetworks.com), the leading
provider of On Demand IP Communications. services, today announced
that is has chosen XO Communications, Inc. (OTCBB:XOCM) as a primary
provider of VoIP wholesale network infrastructure, which will be
used to deliver Pandora's award winning Worksmart On Demand IP
Communications service to its customers.
The agreement gives Pandora Networks the ability to leverage the XO
national private IP network to provide IP and traditional telephony
services in support of the Worksmart full suite of video, messaging
and collaboration services. Through XO, Pandora will be able to
provide nationwide VoIP termination services, multi-market local
inbound calling services, and a full suite of data services
including T1 and DS3 to the customer premise. Additionally,
Pandora's customers have the flexibility to either continue use of
existing local loop providers or upgrade to XO T1 and DS3 loops that
will connect directly to Pandora's Worksmart Data Centers.
"We are pleased to be selected by Pandora Networks to support its
Worksmart On Demand IP Communications service," said Ernie Ortega,
president of XO Carrier Services. "XO is well positioned to provide
wholesale VoIP solutions that help next generation
telecommunications providers like Pandora Networks expand into new
markets with a broad range of services for customers across the
U.S."
XO offers wholesale voice and data solutions over a national fiber-
optic network with an advanced soft switch network platform powered
by SONUS Networks and Juniper Networks that routes data, and both
traditional circuit-switched voice traffic and packet-based VoIP
traffic. With its national private IP network, XO delivers
customers' voice traffic with the same quality and reliability of
traditional telephone networks by avoiding the congestion and delays
of the public Internet.
"Nationwide network coverage from XO allows us to enter all major
U.S. markets with local and 800 numbers that can be provisioned to
our customers on demand," adds Walter Snell, chief executive officer
of Pandora Networks. "By leveraging the XO national private IP
network and soft switch platform, we can offer scalability and
quality to meet the unique demands of our SMB customers who demand
more than just low cost, low quality communications services."
Pandora's On Demand IP Communications(TM) solution has already
received technical and customer acclaim. Technology Marketing
Corporation's TMC Labs named Worksmart(TM), the first, complete, IP
Communications solution designed for small and medium sized
businesses (SMB), as a 2005 Innovation Award winner and 2005
Internet Telephony Excellence Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY
magazine. The awards were based upon the uniqueness and ground-
breaking technology of Pandora Networks' solution. |
