PRESS RELEASE

Equivoice, Inc. Achieves Advanced Unified Communications Specialization From Cisco Systems, Inc.

CHICAGO, IL, March 12, 2007 -- Equivoice, Inc. announced today that it has achieved the Advanced Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco. This designation recognizes Equivoice, Inc. for its knowledge and expertise in selling, designing, installing and supporting comprehensive Cisco Unified Communications solutions. 

Unified Communications is Cisco’s suite of voice, video, and data communications over their industry leading router and switch IP network infrastructure.  Unified Communications applications are actually integrated within an IP network to provide structure and intelligence that can help organizations integrate their communications more closely with business processes, and ensure information reaches recipients quickly, through the most appropriate medium.

"Equivoice, Inc. is pleased to be one of a select group of partners to receive the Advanced Unified Communications Specialization recognition from Cisco," said Marcus McEwen, President, Equivoice, Inc. "This distinguishes us for the commitment and investment we have made to provide a high quality, knowledgeable team to serve our current and prospective customers."

 

The Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialization is designed to help partners -- whether small to medium-sized businesses or enterprise-scale organizations -- meet a wide range of customer needs. It focuses on unified communications market opportunities that require advanced product knowledge and the ability to deploy solutions over multiple sites and geographies. Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialized Partners are specialists in building communications solutions based on the industry-leading Cisco Unified Communications portfolio. These products include the Cisco Unified CallManager, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity voice messaging and unified messaging, Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, Cisco Unified Videoconferencing and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express.

"The time spent diagnosing problems on our old multi-vendor network kept us from implementing employee productivity improvements," said Nick Krapf, IT Director of COTG.  With Equivoice monitoring our uniform Cisco network, incidents are way down and diagnosis in greatly simplified!"

 

The Cisco Channel Partner Program provides partners with training, validation and rewards for building the sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills necessary to deliver value-added integrated solutions to customers. Cisco specializations reflect the depth of technology skills at three levels: Foundation Express, Advanced and Master. At each succeeding level, a partner demonstrates greater sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services capabilities in specific technologies. Cisco channel partner certifications at the gold, silver, and premier levels reflect a breadth of skills across key technologies and a partner's ability to deliver integrated networking solutions.

About Equivoice, Inc.

Headquartered in Algonquin, IL, Equivoice, Inc. is an FCC regulated C-LEC, Cisco Premier and SMB Select Partner, and Cisco certified with IP Communications Specialization. In business since 1984, the company has sales and customer support offices in the United States. Equivoice main service offer is Equi-Trex, a high-quality business class hosted IP telephony solution for the small and mid-market business sector.   For more information, visit www.equivoice.com .

Cisco, Cisco Systems, the Cisco logo, MeetingPlace and Unity are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems Inc. in the United States and certain other countries.

Media Contacts:

Marcus McEwen
President and CEO
Equivoice, Inc.
Phone: 847-235-3312


SOURCE: Equivoice, Inc.