EtherSpeak has joined Microsoft's Lync partner eco-system as a qualified SIP Trunking services provider

Culpeper, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/13/2011 -- EtherSpeak Communications, LLC, a leading IP communications-as-a-service provider and Microsoft partner announced today their latest achievement as a qualified Microsoft SIP Trunking Provider. "We are proud to become a Microsoft qualified SIP trunking provider offering true cost savings for businesses through our innovative products, high standards of excellence and quality service," says Neil Darling, EtherSpeak's President. "We intend to bring significant value to both Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) partners and Microsoft UC customers with our commitment and reputation for excellent service quality and unparalleled innovation."

Since 2008, EtherSpeak has maintained status as the only certified SIP Provider for ShoreTel systems with EtherSpeak's SureTrunk for ShoreTel service brand. Now in 2011, with the launch of EtherSpeak's Lync SIP Trunking brand for Microsoft Lync, users will experience rapid turn-up, tangible cost savings and unparalleled availability of options like voice packet encryption, auto failover and geographic redundancy, all of which are available through EtherSpeak's native integration to Microsoft Lync - enabling the reseller to meet customer requirements without being required to add costly customer-premise hardware.

EtherSpeak will also offer Microsoft partners and customers multiple connectivity options for both public Internet and MPLS networks with QoS, raising the bar for the IP communications industry. EtherSpeak also offers additional services which complement their communications-as-a-service offerings, such as infrastructure redundancy, managed connectivity, business communications continuity, and first to market with a reliable fax solution - iEtherFax – a "zero-touch" fax-line replacement solution ideally suited to seamlessly integrate with a Microsoft UC customer's existing fax machine.

"We are pleased that EtherSpeak has joined Lync's partner eco-system as a qualified SIP Trunking services provider," states Kirk Gregersen, senior director of Lync product management. "EtherSpeak's ability to offer flexible IPcommunications services to Lync customers will be especially helpful at a time when the market demand for Lync is growing at such a rapid pace".

ABOUT ETHERSPEAK:
EtherSpeak is a full service IP communications-as-a-service provider. They have established themselves as a leader in the industry through professional expertise, quality service and innovative products. For more information about EtherSpeak's integration with Microsoft's OCS and Lync systems, please visit: http://lynctrunk.ietherspeak.com/landing/microsoft-lync.htm.

MEDIA CONTACT:
EtherSpeak Communications, LLC
Liz Krause, Marketing Manager
14115 Lovers Lane Ste. 130
Culpeper, VA 22701
(866) 384-3747 x406
lkrause@ietherspeak.com

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Mark Williams to Shepherd EtherSpeak's Indirect Channel Growth With Value-Aligned Communications-as-a-Service Offerings

Culpeper, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/01/2010 -- EtherSpeak announced today, Mark Williams has joined their organization and will be responsible for indirect Channel development throughout the North American markets, as their Vice President of Channels.

Mr. Williams brings a distinguished track record of goal-oriented accomplishments to EtherSpeak. With over 15 years of sales management and telecom business operations experience, Williams most recently propelled PrimeVoice, an SMB focused SIP and Managed Hosted ITSP, from a heavily churning direct sales business to a stable growth oriented trajectory by building a successful indirect channel of 25 strategic partners throughout the Southeast US.

EtherSpeak, a leading US based IP communications-as-a-service provider, provides industry leading IP voice, fax, video and connectivity solutions, sold through a network of Value-Added-Resellers within the ShoreTel, Microsoft OCS / Lync, Asterisk and Zultys communities. Neil Darling, EtherSpeak Founder and CEO commented Mark's education, experience and integrity will be the key differentiator in our ability to grow our indirect partnerships, while continuing to maintain our leadership position with innovation against the growing pack of competitors. To be successful, Mark's team will need to simultaneously increase our customer's reliance and satisfaction with cloud based communications offerings, while also keeping his eye on increasing the profitability of our partner's business. EtherSpeak remains the only provider of native IP voice and fax solutions with a foothold in both the ShoreTel and Microsoft communities. He added, someone of Mark's caliber brings a great balance to enabling our partners to leverage the cloud-based communications-as-a-service offerings, as a counter-weight to a tough economic climate, where our partner's ability to sell innovative Unified Communications solutions is directly tied to the tangible savings delivered from the EtherSpeak cloud.

Previous to his work at PrimeVoice Mr. Williams helped Net Telcos, a managed hosting and collocation provider win numerous strategic customers based on its brand awareness, products, and customer service. Williams also served as a Senior Data Sales Engineer at Level 3 Communications working with Fortune 1000 companies with IP centric service needs such as MPLS and VoIP. In a telecom career that started in 1997, he worked in physics and engineering roles for cutting edge organizations such as NASA, Exxon, Dominion Telecom, and TelCove.

Williams received his Bachelors of Science in Physics from Longwood University and completed his Masters of Engineering at Virginia Tech.

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EtherSpeak Communications, LLC, a leading communications-as-a-service provider for reliable voice, fax and video solutions, today announced a major enhancement to iEtherFax.com with a $12.95 fax machine telephone line replacement solution that involves virtually no configuration for deployment..

Culpeper, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/08/2010 -- EtherSpeak, a leading provider of reliable VoIP voice, fax and video solutions for business, today announced its new enhancement of the iEtherFax service line. iEtherFax now provides a zero-touch fax machine telephone replacement for only $12.95 per month.

This innovative new technology enables fax machines, fax-to-Internet and fax-to-email to achieve the same cost savings as EtherSpeak voice calls on the SIP network, while maintaining the same reliability over internet-based VoIP networks, WiiF hot-spots, cellular, or satellite connections. EtherSpeak's new iEtherFax fax platform is a cloud-based offering that enables fax machines, desktop fax applications and fax servers to stream fax data over the internet with TDM level reliability, while running on relatively low quality networks.

"Unified Communications vendors and customers alike have been plagued with a variety of reliability issues pertaining to transmitting T.38 over the Internet, and as a result, many of their customers miss the cost-savings of VoIP, because they're forced to maintain additional TDM connections for fax machines," said Neil Darling, managing partner of EtherSpeak. "Our new iEtherFax engine is a hybrid between T.37 and T.38, and it provides the reliability of traditional TDM connections, while simultaneously maintaining the real-time communication."

iEtherFax's newly enhanced fax core of is the key to EtherSpeak's solution for customers. It is designed specifically to address the reliability and security concerns with transmitting G.711 or T.38 IP traffic over the open internet. It provides highly scalable, real-time secure fax communication from the following premise based fax clients and servers:

* New Fax Analog Telephone Adapter which utilizes AudioCodes' hardware platform
* Microsoft Fax / Windows Fax and Scan VoIP Plug-in
* Small Business premise fax servers with connectivity to industry leading analog telephone adapters

iEtherFax's enhanced fax solution can scale from a single port to a full DS3 (672 ports) per customer, and it offers full fail-over and redundancy. This technology features a multi-tier architecture, which facilitates carrier-to-carrier handoff via open-standards including session initiation protocol (SIP), and Secure Socket Layer (SSL). This ensures the ultimate in reliability, affordability and security of customer fax integration with any Unified Communications platform including those from ShoreTel, Cisco, Microsoft OCS R2, Zultys and Asterisk..

"We view the enhancement to iEtherFax as a game changer, as fax-over-IP is no longer an obstacle - rather an opportunity for our partners and resellers to deliver reliable, secure and affordable fax solutions-as-a-service to their customers," adds Neil Darling of EtherSpeak.

For more information about this new solution, visit http://www.ietherfax.com or http://www.ietherspeak.com, or contact by telephone at (866) Ether-IP.

About EtherSpeak:
About Etherspeak Communications, LLC
EtherSpeak Communications is a leading provider of open-standards based communications solutions for customers from small business to the emerging enterprise. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, EtherSpeak enhances IP communications through its ability to deliver innovative voice, fax and video communications-as-a-service beyond a customer's network edge.

Media Contact:

Neil Darling
EtherSpeak Communications, LLC
(703) 221-9999

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New Pricing Provides Greater Value and Flexibility to ShoreTel, Microsoft, Asterisk and Zultys IP PBX Customers and Communities

Culpeper, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 05/05/2010 -- EtherSpeak Communications LLC, a leading provider of open standards IP communications solutions, announced today its bold, new plan to help accelerate the ShoreTel, Microsoft OCS, Asterisk-based and Zultys IP PBX communities with the general availability of EtherSpeak's Premier Pricing Bundles for its innovative SURETrunk™, OCSTrunk™, ZIPTrunk™, SWITCHTrunk™ service brands. EtherSpeak's SIP Trunking is a proven method for delivering Business-Grade Telephone Service over the Internet (or private data connection) as-a-service to provide customer's with a cost-effective alternative to legacy telephone connectivity options.

Effective May 4, 2010, EtherSpeak will be offering Premier Bundles at a monthly rate as low as $99.00 for up to 50 simultaneous call-paths and 5000 minutes of inbound and outbound local and long distance calling in the continental U.S.A. Premier plan options range with inclusive pricing from 50 to over 150 simultaneous call paths and from 5000 minutes to 100,000 minutes per month, with a Premier subscription option level suitable for virtually every customer need for savings and flexibility.

"This is a sign of reinforcing our commitment towards supporting the resellers and customers of the IP PBX communities we support, with the utmost flexibility and value demanded by market for tangible value from SIP service subscriptions," said Neil Darling, President & CEO of EtherSpeak.

"Our inherent simplicity and savings will enable the robust, on-premise IP PBX solutions we support from ShoreTel, Microsoft OCS, Asterisk, Zultys and others with unprecedented savings and flexibility enabled through EtherSpeak's focus on value driven beyond the customer's network edge," says Neil.

Since EtherSpeak only develops and distributes native SIP solutions, customers already realize a significant savings when signing up for an annual subscription. By adopting this "native" approach, customers can mitigate the risk associated with SIP trunking by migrating with or without an expensive and complex enterprise edge device such as local PSTN gateways, customer owned SIP session border controllers, limiting copper lines (POTS) or Primary Rate ISDN (PRIs).

Since pricing bundles became effective on May 1, 2010, resellers have jumped right in. Guy Kempny, an IT Consultant for Medical Data Services, a ShoreTel reseller based in South Carolina, signed up one of his customers immediately for the SureTrunk for ShoreTel service and the new Premier Bundle Pricing. Vertically aligned Medical Data Services, manages hundreds of ShoreTel IP PBX locations, is now using EtherSpeak's native SIP to dramatically reduce the monthly operating expense of his customer-base. He comments "With EtherSpeak I have a native solution that works extremely well, has no capex for the customer and with the new Premier Bundle pricing, provides my customer base with the on-going savings and return-on-investment they require."

About EtherSpeak:
Headquartered in Culpeper, Virginia, EtherSpeak Communications, LLC., is an industry-leading provider of open standards communication solutions for ShoreTel customers. EtherSpeak enhances IP-based communications by ensuring flexible, simple and reliable voice, fax and video integration beyond the customer's network edge.

For more information, please visit http://www.ietherspeak.com
For Asterisk Community pricing info visit: http://www.switchtrunk.com/premier.php
For ShoreTel Community pricing info visit: http://www.suretrunk.com/premier.php
For Zultys Community pricing info visit:http://www.ziptrunk.com/premier.php

Or please call: Ed Rabideau at 1-877-729-3501

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Fortune 500 & high-profile clients value SureTrunk for ShoreTel® customer solutions

Dumfries, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/12/2009 -- EtherSpeak Communications, Inc., the innovators of solutions that are open for business, today is announcing the availability of the first published customer success stories for its acclaimed SureTrunk™ service offering -- the world's first and only native SIP trunking solution for the ShoreTel community.

Since SureTrunk was certified by ShoreTel last summer as a Technology Partner Program (TPP) solution, the number of customers that have readily adopted native SIP trunking as a cost-effective alternative to non-native solutions (solutions requiring additional capital expense), or PRI/BRI or analog circuits has grown steadily. But in addition to its cost advantages, SureTrunk has proven to enhance performance, seamlessly increase productivity and substantially optimize capacity utilization rates of customer ShoreTel systems.

"It is gratifying to see the warm reception that ShoreTel customers have shown us with our SureTrunk solution. We believe the adoption rate is evidence that companies of all size are seeking new forms of innovation provided by manufacturer certified native SIP trunking solutions. We are very proud of the fact that SureTrunk is leading the way for the ShoreTel community," said Neil Darling, President & CEO at EtherSpeak Communications.

Clients profiled in the new case studies include Magna International, a Fortune 500 company and Canada's largest auto parts maker; Brock White, a St. Paul, Minn.-based Midwest distributor of construction materials; and Great American Group, which was selected by Circuit City to manage its high-profile going-out-of-business sale.

"Each of the cases demonstrates the versatility that our SureTrunk solution affords the customer, whether it is to offset the effects of a cyclical downturn or to enable next-generation IP services in a non-disruptive manner. Clearly, cost alone is no longer the central issue," Darling added.

"We are both a customer and a partner and have had a very good experience thus far. We think customers will be very willing to listen to the EtherSpeak story, particularly in conjunction with ShoreTel," said Scott Strochak, President & CEO, Xtelesis, an authorized ShoreTel reseller and SureTrunk partner.

A complete archive of the newest case studies can be found on the http://www.suretrunk.com Web site.

About Etherspeak Communications, Inc.
EtherSpeak Communications is a leading provider of open standards communications solutions for customers from small business to the small enterprise. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, EtherSpeak enhances IP communications through its VoIEasy Service Platform by ensuring appropriate security, network connectivity, ease of use and thorough technical support. For more info, please visit http://www.suretrunk.com.

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SureTrunk developer introduces unlimited pricing plans for world's first and only native SIP Trunking solution for the ShoreTel platform

Dumfries, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/04/2008 -- EtherSpeak Communications LLC, a leading provider of open standards communications solutions, today announced it has taken bold, new steps to help accelerate the ShoreTel community's adoption of next-generation IP telephony with unlimited pricing plans for its innovative SureTrunk™ service, the world's first and only native SIP Trunking for the ShoreTel platform.

Effective immediately, EtherSpeak will be offering SureTrunk at a monthly rate as low as $32.50 per trunk for local and long distance calling in the continental U.S. and Canada. Combined with the proprietary BurstaTrunk™ service options to optimize capacity utilization, the new unlimited pricing plan (dubbed "Freedom" plans) makes SureTrunking an even more compelling solution for customers of ShoreWare-based IP phone systems.

"This is a sign of our reinforcing commitment towards supporting the resellers and customers of the ShoreTel community. The ShoreTel Unified Communications solution has achieved significant market penetration and we are very pleased to help customers unleash the power and flexibility through SIP-based communications," said Neil Darling, President & CEO of EtherSpeak.

Certified as a ShoreTel Technology Partner Program (TPP) solution in July 2008, SureTrunk is currently the world's only SIP Trunking service (managed or premised-based) to enable ShoreTel customers to realize all of the benefits of IP-enabled communications without any additional investments, hardware or even new firewall/gateway requirements. By adopting this "native" approach, customers can mitigate the risk associated with SIP trunking by migrating with or without an enterprise edge device such as local PSTN gateways, costly ISDN Basic Rate Interfaces (BRIs) or Primary Rate Interfaces (PRIs).

Since SureTrunk was launched last summer, it has received a warm reception from ShoreTel resellers and customers alike. The innovative companies such as 29 Agency of Southlake, TX, are SureTrunking to reduce their risk exposure as well as operating costs.

"This was one of the easiest decisions we've made all year. SureTrunk has given us the ability to fully harness our existing data networking and communications infrastructure in a clean and simple way that dramatically reduces expenses. At a time when the economy dictates that we focus on everything, it's good to know solutions like SureTrunk exist to help us maximize the return on our investment," said Tyler Merrick, Principal at 29 Agency.

About 29 Agency
29 Agency is a growing creative agency based in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. We enjoy helping others solve the creative needs of their business - whether it's an ad campaign launching your product, a website educating the public about your company, or an identity giving a face to this new dream of yours, we are here to be your right brain. We are not a one-size-fits-all agency, but our clients include consumer goods companies, non profit organizations, city governments, future rock stars, entrepreneurs, professional services, and a few others in between. Our main areas of focus are Identity and Brand Development, Package Design, Product Development, Web, Video, or Print Campaigns, and any other ancillary services needed for each of these.

About Etherspeak Communications, LLC
EtherSpeak Communications is a leading provider of open standards communications solutions for customers from small business to the small enterprise. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, EtherSpeak enhances IP communications through its VoIEasy Service Platform by ensuring appropriate security, network connectivity, ease of use and thorough technical support. For more information, please visit http://www.etherspeak.us.

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No additional hardware needed to connect ShoreTel’s UC system with SIP trunking services; EtherSpeak's SureTrunk becomes certified through ShoreTel’s Technology Partner Program

Dumfries, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/22/2008 -- EtherSpeak Communications today announces the development of an innovative, cost-effective solution for ShoreTel's UC system to connect to SIP trunking services "natively," meaning ShoreTel customers can now realize all of the benefits of IP-enabled communications without any additional investments, hardware or even new firewall/gateway requirements.

EtherSpeak's new solution, dubbed "SureTrunk™," enables ShoreTel customers of all sizes to make full use of their investment by connecting SIP networks with traditional fixed-line PSTN directly. EtherSpeak's solution has been certified through ShoreTel's Technology Partner Program (TPP) and immediately available to ShoreTel resellers.

"ShoreTel is pleased to welcome Etherspeak as one of the newest members of our TPP community. Through their SureTrunk solution, EtherSpeak is able to harness the full power of SIP through seamless integration, unleashing the power and flexibility of our new version of our UC system," says Steve Timmerman, vice president of marketing, ShoreTel.

"ShoreTel has developed a world-class product portfolio, partner channel and customer-base and we recognized the need in the market for a solution that offers added flexibility through integration, yet hedges the risk of additional hardware investments," explains Neil Darling, managing partner at EtherSpeak Communications.

As a certified TPP solution for ShoreTel's UC solutions, SureTrunking means customers can now mitigate the risk associated with SIP trunking by migrating with or without an enterprise edge device such as local PSTN gateways, costly ISDN Basic Rate Interfaces (BRIs) or Primary Rate Interfaces (PRIs). EtherSpeak's SureTrunk is certified for ShoreTel's UC system, version 8.0 and is expected to fully support future software builds.

"EtherSpeak's new managed SureTrunk solution offers ShoreTel customers less expensive alternatives to on-premise SIP trunking that requires a hardware purchase, implementation fees and license costs as well as SIP trunk line fees. U.S. businesses considering a managed SIP trunking option are motivated primarily by the financial benefits of the solution (lower cost of ownership and no or little capital expense), so a managed solution with a predictable monthly cost is appealing," says Sandra Gustavsen, senior analyst at TelecomTactics, the Telecom Intelligence Group.

"Small businesses, in particular, will appreciate the ease of adoption (no start up costs with the EtherSpeak solution) and the benefits that SIP trunking can bring to their business - reduced costs (lower long distance charges) and improved productivity (ISDN-like features and the means to integrate converged applications such as video and collaboration). A hosted option may prompt a smaller business to take advantage of SIP trunking since they can do so without costly risks."

About EtherSpeak
EtherSpeak Communications is a leading provider of open standards communications solutions for customers from small business to the small enterprise. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, through the VoIEasy Service Platform, EtherSpeak enhances IP communications by ensuring appropriate security, network connectivity, ease of use and thorough technical support. For more information, please visit http://www.suretrunk.com or call 866.EtherIP (384-3747)

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Dumfries, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/22/2008 -- EtherSpeak Communications today announces the development of an innovative, cost-effective solution for ShoreTel's UC system to connect to SIP trunking services "natively," meaning ShoreTel customers can now realize all of the benefits of IP-enabled communications without any additional investments, hardware or even new firewall/gateway requirements.

EtherSpeak's new solution, dubbed "SureTrunk™," enables ShoreTel customers of all sizes to make full use of their investment by connecting SIP networks with traditional fixed-line PSTN directly. EtherSpeak's solution has been certified through ShoreTel's Technology Partner Program (TPP) and immediately available to ShoreTel resellers.

"ShoreTel is pleased to welcome Etherspeak as one of the newest members of our TPP community. Through their SureTrunk solution, EtherSpeak is able to harness the full power of SIP through seamless integration, unleashing the power and flexibility of our new version of our UC system," says Steve Timmerman, vice president of marketing, ShoreTel.

"ShoreTel has developed a world-class product portfolio, partner channel and customer-base and we recognized the need in the market for a solution that offers added flexibility through integration, yet hedges the risk of additional hardware investments," explains Neil Darling, managing partner at EtherSpeak Communications.

As a certified TPP solution for ShoreTel's UC solutions, SureTrunking means customers can now mitigate the risk associated with SIP trunking by migrating with or without an enterprise edge device such as local PSTN gateways, costly ISDN Basic Rate Interfaces (BRIs) or Primary Rate Interfaces (PRIs). EtherSpeak's SureTrunk is certified for ShoreTel's UC system, version 8.0 and is expected to fully support future software builds.

"EtherSpeak's new managed SureTrunk solution offers ShoreTel customers less expensive alternatives to on-premise SIP trunking that requires a hardware purchase, implementation fees and license costs as well as SIP trunk line fees. U.S. businesses considering a managed SIP trunking option are motivated primarily by the financial benefits of the solution (lower cost of ownership and no or little capital expense), so a managed solution with a predictable monthly cost is appealing," says Sandra Gustavsen, senior analyst at TelecomTactics, the Telecom Intelligence Group.

"Small businesses, in particular, will appreciate the ease of adoption (no start up costs with the EtherSpeak solution) and the benefits that SIP trunking can bring to their business - reduced costs (lower long distance charges) and improved productivity (ISDN-like features and the means to integrate converged applications such as video and collaboration). A hosted option may prompt a smaller business to take advantage of SIP trunking since they can do so without costly risks."

About EtherSpeak

EtherSpeak Communications is a leading provider of open standards communications solutions for customers from small business to the small enterprise. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, through the VoIEasy Service Platform, EtherSpeak enhances IP communications by ensuring appropriate security, network connectivity, ease of use and thorough technical support. For more information, please visit http://www.suretrunk.com or call 866.EtherIP (384-3747)

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