TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES SUITE OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR BROADBAND SERVICE PROVIDERS
Professional Services Help TollBridge Customers Roll Out New, Voice-Over-Broadband ServicesSANTA CLARA, Calif., May 15, 2000 - TollBridge Technologies, Inc., the leading developer of high-quality voice-over-broadband solutions for a new generation of carriers, today announced a suite of professional services designed to make it easier for broadband service providers to roll out new voice-over-broadband services. TollBridge Professional Services include the Toll Express Marketing Consulting Program, which guides providers through the course of implementing and managing an integrated data and voice broadband network. The Network Design and Integration Program is also part of the new services program. "Now that packet voice services are making voice and data convergence a compelling economic reality, the demand for voice-over-broadband services is set to explode in 2000," said Agnes Imregh, vice president of marketing for TollBridge. "The market opportunity is enormous, but service providers face significant challenges as they roll out these services. TollBridge's new Professional Services Program helps our customers quickly turn their business concepts into successful rollouts." Recently, Telechoice predicted the North American DSL lines used to provide commercial Voice over DSL (VoDSL) services will reach 40,000 by the end of 2000. Moving beyond the year 2000, TeleChoice estimates that the number of DSL lines used to provide VoDSL services will grow to 100,000 by year-end 2001, with widespread deployment in the following years increasing the number to 1.75 million by the end of 2004. (From a report entitled "North American Voice over DSL Market to Reach 40,000 Lines in 2000," Telechoice, May 3, 2000.) The Toll Express consulting team, comprised of senior level business and technical analysts, is led by Dr. Weicheng Liu, PhD, who brings to the group extensive industry knowledge. Previously, at DSET, Dr. Liu oversaw the sale of GR-303-Stacks to major voice gateway and switch vendors. "The mission of the Toll Express team is to facilitate a revenue generating voice-over-broadband solution for our current and future customers. Our Professional Services program encompasses various modules including complete network design, return on investment (ROI) plans, and baseline programs," said Dr. Liu, director of professional services. Services from Planning to Launch and Beyond TollBridge's new Toll Express Marketing Consulting Program helps next-generation carriers-competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), inter exchange carriers (IXCs), ISPs, multisystem operators (MSOs), and cable operators-plan for, launch, and scale voice-over-broadband services. By incorporating its extensive expertise in data and telephony networks, voice-over-broadband technologies, and knowledge of service marketing into one program, TollBridge helps service providers improve time to market and speed revenue generation. Alojamiento descontado LevocaToll Express includes the following components: - Market research-including information on market trends, analyst forecasts, target applications, and market segmentation-helps customers validate business concepts and identify current and future market opportunities.
- Business plan development helps customers meet budgeting, performance, and staffing requirements.
- Service development includes an overview of service definition, features and benefits, competitive service analyses, and pricing analyses.
- Training programs focus on selling a service as opposed to a technology.
- Joint marketing enables customers to create press and promotional materials and gives access to TollBridge white papers and presentations that customers can brand for their own use.
TollBridge developed the Network Design and Integration Program because it understands that businesses today have a compelling need to balance operational costs against increased network functionality and performance requirements. As part of this program, TollBridge helps customers plan and design new networks-and evolve existing networks-to maximize efficiency, lower costs, and enhance business processes. The Network Design and Integration Program enables customers to deploy voice over broadband within existing networks by helping modify and customize software functions for network monitoring. Help with provisioning and configuration to integrate the new service into the existing Operational Support Systems (OSS) environment is also included. Siena cheap hotelsAbout TollBridge Technologies Founded in March 1998 and located in Santa Clara, Calif., TollBridge Technologies is the leading provider of high-quality, voice-over-broadband solutions to the new generation of carriers. TollBridge's solutions change the economics of delivering voice services to small-business customers by allowing voice CLECs that own Class 5 switches to use broadband access technologies, such as DSL, to bypass the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) and deliver toll-quality voice and integrated data services. TollBridge and TollVoiceTM are trademarks of TollBridge Technologies, Inc. All other service marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
