Cypress Communications’ (News - Alert) “Get Your VoIP On” promotion will award one U.S. business with a grand prize of two years of free hosted VoIP and unified communications.

 

The solution helps enterprises connect, communicate, collaborate and continue, integrates traditional PBX features with advanced communications as a service functionality into a single communications solution. With this solution, people can stay in touch by using their office phone, use a PC for calling, or use both the PC and phone together to chat, video, share file or Web conferencing for a richer experience.

 

Frank Grillo (News - Alert), executive vice president of marketing at Cypress Communications said, “Hosted VoIP and unified communications help workers to better communicate, work more efficiently and become more productive. Unified communications could very well be one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century.” 

 

The grand prize includes enterprise-class PBX (News - Alert) functionality, unified messaging, collaboration and multimedia capabilities, all amounting to a total value of $100,000. Some of the multimedia capabilities are voice-mail, instant messaging, audio and Web conferencing, real-time presence, Microsoft (News - Alert) Outlook integration and click-to-call.

 

Dedicated circuits, routers, VLAN management, private IP network access, managed voice and data quality (QoS) supported by service level guarantees, Internet bandwidth, and a dedicated local and national team for installation, training and support are some of the other prizes that the winner will receive.

 

The winning company can use this service across their various offices, thus allowing all locations to communicate with each other as one business unit, within a 4-digit extension code. This means no long distance calling bills, file sharing or collaboration tools.

 

VoIP and unified communications are changing the entire working of communication and business today, bringing presence, collaboration and video right to the desktop. Users can make use of productivity-enhancing applications such as real-time presence, desktop video, unified messaging, chat, file sharing, and Outlook integration right from their computers.

 

David Johnson, partner of Strategic Link Consulting, said, “With hosted VoIP from Cypress Communications, the world is my office. Whether I'm sitting in the airport in Hong Kong or on site with a client in Central America, I am always virtually at my desk. With clients all over the world, hosted VoIP keeps me connected, conducting business as usual.”

 

Headquartered in Atlanta, Cypress Communications is one of the largest providers of managed communication solutions in the nation. They supply the latest in communications technology for small and mid-sized business enterprises.

The Cypress range of services includes integrated voice and data access, desktop phones, soft phones, local and long distance voice services, voice-mail, advanced collaboration tools and remote office functionality.