VocalData nails down deals with Apollo Broadband

ATLANTA -- Kansas City-based Apollo Broadband will be providing hosted PBX service using VocalData’s VOISS application server, the companies said this week. VocalData also will work with vNet Source as the next-generation telephony provider partners with its customer Go-Comm to help in Go-Comm's 28-market expansion.

VocalData’s VOISS application server will allow Apollo, a wholesale broadband access provider to CLECs and ISPs, to add voice services to its broadband offering. In addition to PBX and E911 capabilities, Apollo will offer unified messaging, a one-number solution that combines mobile, home and business calls, and a Web portal.

“The Web portal is extremely important to hosted services,” said Laurie Shook, director of marketing for VocalData. “It allows [retail] providers to brand their own service.”

Apollo said in a statement that VocalData’s firewall capabilities and the ease of integrating it helped tip the balance in its favor. Shook added that while many customers already have their own data firewall, they are not capable of handling the signaling for voice.

As Dallas-based Go-Comm expands into 28 more markets with its wholesale services offering, using partner vNet Source and CommWorks’ OSS solutions, VocalData expands its deployment. “Wholesale is really starting to catch on in the voice-over-IP space,” Shook said.

vNet Source provides on-network termination for 28 domestic markets and has off-network alliances providing complete international and domestic coverage.

VocalData also completed product interoperability between its VOISS and Mitel Networks’ 5055 SIP phone. The company now supports more than 20 integrated access devices and IP phones.