Fredericksburg, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/30/2015 -- EtherSpeak proudly announces the appointment of Kenneth Adams as Vice President of Channel Sales. As a commercial ITSP, EtherSpeak equips businesses with quality communication solutions including native SIP trunking, internet faxing, and encrypted voice services.

Adams is now leading EtherSpeak's go-to-market strategy with a renewed focus on key system integrators, value-added resellers, and telecom brokers in the United States and Canada.

Adams brings new energy and expertise to the EtherSpeak executive team that he acquired from about 20 years in the industry. His accomplishments as a leader in technical sales and channel operations for Ironton Global and, most recently, PortaOne enhance EtherSpeak's initiative for increased market-share and innovation.

"We are excited to have Ken on our team," says EtherSpeak founder and CEO, Neil Darling. "His track record and vision make him a valuable asset; rounding out our capabilities. I am convinced that our VARs and partners will quickly experience the benefit of his genius. Ken and I are working together to capitalize on new market opportunities and position EtherSpeak as profitable and reliable carrier among our partner community.

As Vice President of Channel Sales, Adams is responsible for the design and execution of an increasingly competitive sales and marketing strategy. In accordance with EtherSpeak's overall vision, the goals of these efforts include continued development of relevant products and services as well as revamping a healthy and appealing channel partner program.

Further details about Ken Adams and EtherSpeak's new initiatives are listed on http://www.etherspeak.com

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Atlanta, GA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/13/2011 -- Dr. Robert Geller MD, and Dr. Gaylord Lopez of the Georgia Poison Control have a daunting task when the unthinkable occurs in the form of a terrorist attack, pandemic, or a catastrophic poisoning event; they have to answer the phones and provide the first line for responding to the concerns of the public.

Georgia Poison Control is responsible for the handling the state's triage system for catastrophic emergencies that threaten the safety of its more than 9.8 million residents. The new IT system they were looking for had to have the ability to reliably support up to 480 inbound phone calls at any single instance.

Building a telephone system that could handle this type of inbound traffic on extremely short notice created a logistical and budgetary challenge which traditional technology would not support. To meet this challenge, Georgia Poison Control elicited the help of local telephony partner Stormwood Technologies.

Understanding Georgia Poison's requirements, Stormwood architected a Voice over IP (VoIP) solution by soliciting the help of two major IP telephony players, ShoreTel, and EtherSpeak Communications, Inc. ShoreTel provided their ShoreTel Unified Communications phone system, while EtherSpeak provided their ability to process 600 concurrent calls and a managed connectivity solution which provides a wide pipe to seamlessly connect to the ShoreTel platform.

"We were presented with a challenge that many businesses deal with – costs and time constraints." Byron Stewart, Stormwood's Chief Technology Officer stated. "Using ShoreTel's UC system alongside with EtherSpeak's SIP service, we were able to provide a viable solution that successfully met both these challenges."

Stewart architected the ShoreTel solution while a team of EtherSpeak engineers coordinated the SIP trunking, MPLS and internet services to meet Georgia Poison Center's requirements. In the end, the final solution orchestrated by Stormwood produced an innovative and cost effective phone system capable of receiving 480 calls instantaneously.

Dr. Geller of the Georgia Poison Control stated, "What we needed to do technically was daunting – and almost inconceivable considering our limited resources and requirement for 480 call paths on-demand to fulfill an important part of our mission. However, Stormwood and EtherSpeak's solution will allow us to help fulfill our mission by delivering the right capacity and capability on-time and on-budget."

About:
Stormwood Technologies is a recognized IT leader in delivering IT communications. As a full service consulting network integration company they provide their services to a wide range of enterprise customers and offer assessments, network design, remote & on-site network, IP Telephony, video conferencing, data networks, virtualization, and disaster recovery. For more information about Stormwood, visit: http://www.stormwood.com.

EtherSpeak Communications, Inc. is an IP communications service provider. As a leading SIP trunk provider, they are recognized for their innovative offering by leading UC companies such as ShoreTel, Microsoft, Cisco and others. EtherSpeak provides managed IP connectivity options, IP PBX hosting, call encryption and fax connectivity services. For more information about EtherSpeak, please visit: http://www.ietherspeak.com

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Stafford, VA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/04/2010 -- EtherSpeak Communications, Inc., the leading innovator in open standard based IP communications solutions, announced today it has completed SIP interoperability testing with IBM's Lotus Foundations Reach and ShoreTel's Unified Communications (UC) platform. This development will provide IBM and ShoreTel customers the option to access the advanced capabilities of Lotus Foundations Reach and ShoreTel's UC with EtherSpeak's native SIP trunks for enhanced customer satisfaction, savings and flexibility. Customers will be up and running with IBM Lotus Foundations Reach, ShoreTel UC and making and receiving calls with EtherSpeak's SureTrunk service in a matter of hours of opening the package.

With this evolution, EtherSpeak and its SureTrunk SIP Trunk brand has fortified its customer-proven offering by enabling seamless business-telephone-lines-over-the-Internet or SIP trunk integration. Ultimately, EtherSpeak's goal is to strengthen the value and best-of-breed utility of ShoreTel's UC and IBM's Lotus Foundations Reach for customers, channel partners and distributors. EtherSpeak's straightforward subscription-based service offering, SureTrunk, is now available to IBM's feature-rich Lotus Foundations Reach, enhanced by ShoreTel's award winning UC platform, all running virtually turn-key within IBM's Lotus Foundations all-in-one server.

"When unified communications must be cost-effective - with fewer moving parts and less hardware expense - EtherSpeak's native SIP trunking approach really shines," said Neil Darling, president of EtherSpeak. "EtherSpeak continues to deliver for ShoreTel and as the relationship and technology between the two market leaders represented by IBM's Lotus Foundations Reach and ShoreTel evolves, the expanding community of customers will have the option to simply turn-on SIP connectivity to virtually any phone number in the USA or Canada. We are truly excited about the possibilities and options it will bring to the customers – and to the alliance."

EtherSpeak native SIP SureTrunk for ShoreTel offering will be demonstrated at Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, Florida January 17 through January 20, 2010.

ShoreTel, ShoreTel Unified Communications are trademarks if ShoreTel, Inc.

IBM, Lotus, Sametime, and Sametime Unified Telephony are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries or both.

For more information, contact Brooke August, EtherSpeak Marketing and Media Relations at (703) 221-9999 or via email at baugust@ietherspeak.com.

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EtherSpeak's SIP trunking solution attains highest honors within Technology Partner Program

Dumfries, VA and Orlando, FL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/25/2009 -- Etherspeak Communications, Inc., the innovator of Solutions that are Open for Business©, announced that its acclaimed native SIP trunking solution, SureTrunk™, today achieved the additional distinctions as "Customer Proven" and "Partner Proven" by ShoreTel® - the highest levels of membership within its Technology Partner Program (TPP).

The additional certifications come just nine months after EtherSpeak Communications initially became a certified-TPP member. SureTrunk was certified last summer as the world's first and only native SIP trunking solution for the ShoreTel platform, 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. Our unique standing with ShoreTel's growing ecosystem has enabled customers and partners alike to mitigate any risks associated with IP and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as well as migrate away from costly analog, ISDN Basic Rate Interfaces (BRIs) or Primary Rate Interfaces (PRIs) circuits.

"EtherSpeak Communications is very grateful to ShoreTel's customers and channel partners for warmly embracing our risk-free approach to SIP trunking. We are very proud to be the first and only ITSP to achieve the Customer-Proven and Partner-Proven distinctions and to be still the only one in the world to bring SIP trunking natively to the ShoreTel platform," said Neil Darling, President and CEO, EtherSpeak Communications.

Most recently, EtherSpeak has published case studies that show how SureTrunk enhances performance, seamlessly increases productivity and substantially optimizes capacity utilization rates. Whether as a cost-cutting tool or as a service-enabler (allowing customers to fully benefit from IP communications), SureTrunk is making a substantial impact for partners like Transcend Communications or Brightstack Technologies; and for companies like Magna International, the Fortune 500 auto parts maker, or Great American Group, which handled the Circuit City liquidation.

"EtherSpeak's SureTrunk offering has demonstrated its value across the industry, and with ShoreTel's customers. Now more than ever, organizations are scrutinizing budgets, and looking for proven solutions that help reduce costs and bolster productivity. EtherSpeak's unique solution for SIP Trunking plays a major role in helping organizations lower the costs of deploying and operating a ShoreTel solution," said Kevin Gavin, vice president of marketing at ShoreTel.

EtherSpeak Communications plans to showcase its multi-certified SIP trunking solution at ShoreTel's Partner Pavilion at VoiceCon Orlando 2009 (Booth 917).

About ShoreTel
ShoreTel, Inc., (NASDAQ: SHOR) is a leading provider of Pure IP unified communications systems. ShoreTel enables companies of any size to seamlessly integrate all communications-voice, data, messaging-with their business processes. Independent of device or location, ShoreTel's distributed software architecture eliminates the traditional costs, complexity and reliability issues typically associated with other solutions. ShoreTel continues to deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction, ease of use and manageability while driving down the overall total cost of ownership. ShoreTel is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has regional offices in the United Kingdom, Sydney, Australia and Munich, Germany. For more information, visit http://www.shoretel.com or call 1-877-80SHORE.

About Etherspeak Communications, Inc.
Headquartered in Northern Virginia, EtherSpeak Communications, Inc., is a leading provider of open standards communications solutions for SMB and enterprise customers. EtherSpeak enhances IP-based communications by ensuring appropriate network connectivity, security, ease of use and complete technical support. For more information, please visit http://www.suretrunk.com.


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