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These trials will take place in two wire centers (out of 4,700 across the country) in former BellSouth territory. The proposed trials “seek a complete migration of all customers (or as many as possible) to IP-based services.” These trials are a learning process and are in service of the ultimate goal is to complete the IP Transition by the end of 2020 and sunset the PSTN.

In the filing AT&T states the obvious motivation:

“In short, the IP-transition is well past the tipping point, and at some point in the not-too-distant future it will no longer be possible to maintain traditional TDM-based telephone networks and services. The demand won’t be there, the economics won’t support it, and the parts and labor to keep these networks going will not be available.”

The most shocking revelation in the filing: AT&T admitted to finding spare parts for its legacy network on eBay. This is due to fact that the equipment vendors have stopped making or supporting that gear. The TDM network cannot be maintained for much longer as the equipment and expertise is vanishing. The many hundreds of traditional telcos in the U.S face this same reality.

This same end-of-life conundrum is also true of early generation VoIP gear. The transition to IP means that the technologies that power the infrastructure will be become obsolete faster than their TDM predecessors. While some of these TDM switches may be in operation for 20 plus years, the early softswitches and application servers from just last decade are no longer adequate or supported. Many vendors have outright disappeared.

This is why cloud voice platforms make sense. The all-IP SaaS-based solution provide continuous innovation without the buying, building and maintaining of a voice network. Whether transitioning from TDM or VoIP 1.0, the cloud is the solution for many service providers. By adopting a cloud-based VoIP service delivery solution, service providers can quickly move to all-IP with a safe and prudent business model: success-based, zero-CAPEX solution that aligns with their revenue streams. The end customer gets the same reliable, high quality service with a richer set of features. The service provider still owns the subscriber relationship and runs the business, but they don’t need to run the voice network.

Some other interesting data points and claims from the filing include:

More than 70 percent of residential consumers in the 22 states where AT&T is the legacy “phone company” have abandoned legacy phone service
FCC states that “the majority of the capital investments made by U.S. telephone companies from 2006 to 2011 went toward maintaining the declining telephone network, despite the fact that only one-third of U.S. households use it at all”
AT&T plans to expand the wireline IP-broadband service to approximately 57 million customer locations and be substantially done in 2016 as part of the Velocity IP (VIP) project
Project VIP plans also call for building fiber facilities to a 1,000,000 additional business locations and deploying 10,000 new macro cell sites, utilize over 40,000 small cells and construct over 1000 Distributed Antennae systems
AT&T will introduce two fixed LTE services providing both broadband and phone (AT&T Wireless Home Phone and Wireless Business Phone) to help the company address rural, high-cost areas
Some legacy TDM applications will not be offered in the all-IP world, including operator services (live operators and collect calling)
AT&T sums it up:

In other words, it is inevitable that over time circuit switched telephony will become irretrievably obsolete. And that day is fast approaching. Not only are customers abandoning circuit-switched networks and services in droves, making it increasingly uneconomic to maintain those legacy networks, but manufacturers of the equipment needed to maintain and operate those networks are likewise moving on. Those manufacturers want to focus their businesses on the networks of the future, not technology that is being displaced, and so they are discontinuing production of TDM equipment. As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain needed spare parts to keep legacy TDM networks going.

We think the cloud voice platform will play a very big role for many hundreds of cable, telco and broadband providers facing that same PSTN sunset challenge.

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One of TMC’s most coveted awards, the Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award honors exceptional products and services that facilitate voice, data and video communications that were brought to market in the last twelve months.

“It gives me great pleasure to honor the recipients of the 2014 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award,” said Rich Tehrani CEO, TMC. “True leaders within their industries, these honorees represent the best-of-the-best products and solutions available on the market today.”

Intuitive Technology, Inc. was founded by Chris Jones in 2005. The Company is a leading provider of business phone systems based on the Asterisk technology.  Currently there are 30,000 business users worldwide of the Company’s communication products.

Recently the Company introduced the Evolution PBX solid state appliance. This breakthrough PBX solid state appliance offers state of the art IP telephony features in a highly intuitive, low maintenance phone system.  With the Evolution PBX small to medium sized organization can have a communication system that functions similar to the million-dollar PBX systems Fortune 500 company’s use.

Intuitive Technology’s President and founder, Chris Jones, said, “The breakthrough with our Evolution PBX appliance is its depth of features, rock solid stability, and affordable price point, at $1299 it becomes an essential part of any small business. We are extremely pleased on being recognized by TMC.”  The system will support over 45 simultaneously extensions making it one of the most powerful, low cost, full featured PBX systems on the market.

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See: press release with all the winners.

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Intuitive Voice offers a unique blend of innovation and ease-of-use that have made it one of the fastest growing Asterisk-based PBX systems on the market. With Evolution PBX and the Java based iView Operator Console, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and sales professionals are empowered with a communications system that functions similar to the million-dollar PBX systems FORTUNE 500 companies use, at a fraction of the cost of many proprietary solutions.

CEO Chris Jones believes that IVT’s offering is blazing new trails in the industry, as evidenced by industry competitors who are mimicking the company’s Evolution PBX 3.0 – released in September 2007. Specifically, Mr. Jones commented on the similarities to Evolution PBX 3.0 in Fonality’s recent announcement of their latest release.

“Many of the features introduced in their new release are similar to Intuitive Voice Technology’s Evolution PBX 3.0 which was introduced September of 2007 and released publicly in October of 2007.”

The similar features include:

Find Me/Follow Me:
Not working at your desk today? Are you on the road? Your customers will never know. Simply login to the Evolution PBX user interface and the system will look for you at up to 4 different phone numbers or extensions. If you don’t pick up the call the system will then send the voice mail back to your original voicemail box.

Cell Phone Integration:
Did you ever want to take a call from your cell phone and maintain the features of your office phone system? Now you can. Take a call using the Evolution PBX Find Me/Follow Me interface to take a call on your cell phone and all the functions of the PBX are available for you to use. Simply press *1 to start recording the call and *2 to transfer back to any phone extension back at the office. Evolution PBX can even take this a step further and auto detect when you are in the office by using the Bluetooth device on your cell phone.

Presence Detection:
Register your Bluetooth device with Evolution PBX and the system will automatically send calls to your desk when you walk into the office and to your cell phone or other extensions when you leave the office without any user interaction.

Simultaneous Ring:
Do you want to have the system simultaneously ring your cell phone and your desk extension? How about your remote telephone in your home office or your softphone client? How about ALL of your devices? With the Find Me/Follow Me interface of Evolution PBX you can ring every one of your extensions including your cell phone to ensure that you never miss a call.

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Some companies start their marketing pitches when they choose their names. Take Phoenix-based startup Intuitive Voice Technology. The company’s very name argues that its Asterisk-based Evolution IP PBXes, which serve up to 250 users, are so easy to operate that they hardly require thought. But the features that the company’s products offer are what may ultimately convince potential customers to buy.

Continue reading: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/voip-news/intuitive-voice-technology-sells-ease-of-use-but-its-features-may-clinch-the-deal-52167

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“Intuitive Voice Technology is a pioneer and Evolution PBX represents the cream of the crop in the SMB IP communications space. As the event grows, selecting Best-of-Show winners becomes more and more difficult as the solutions displayed on the exhibit floor become more impressive. Every product is worthy of distinction, therefore I can assure you that the companies and products on the list this year represent truly outstanding achievement,” said Rich Tehrani, president and group editor-in-chief of TMC.

TMC also announced today that Intuitive Voice Technology’s Evolution PBX has received a 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

“Taking risks to advance VoIP technology and provide real solutions has earned Intuitive Voice recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY and an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. Evolution PBX has excelled in delivering solutions and IVT customers are extremely pleased and have offered their testaments of support,” said Greg Galitzine, Editorial Director of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

“Intuitive Voice Technology was founded to create an easy to use PBX that delivers robust features, at a rock bottom price. The entire IVT team has worked hard on Evolution PBX and are extremely honored to receive these awards from TMC,” said Chris Jones, CEO, Intuitive Voice Technology.

The 2007 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners have been published in the October 2007 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com.

About Intuitive Voice Technology: IVT is a leader in open source, Asterisk-based IP telephony systems. Evolution PBX, Intuitive Voice’s award winning IP-PBX product line for small- and medium-sized businesses, includes a hardened subset of the popular open source Asterisk code base. Intuitive Voice has a unique blend of innovation and ease of use that have made it one of the fastest growing Asterisk-based PBX systems on the market. For more information, call (602) 249-5750 or visit the Intuitive Voice website athttp://www.IntuitiveVoice.com/.

About TMC: Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 5,200 most visited Web sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves three million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, and Call Center 2.0 Conference and Green Technology World Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

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“CommPartners’ IP Trunking(TM) product is seeing a surge in demand as an attractive choice for small and mid-sized business customers transitioning to a converged IP communications solution. Requests are also being received from our reseller channel for a broader variety of certified IP PBX hardware solutions to address the fast growing SMB VoIP market,” said Michael McGhee, VP Sales and Business Development for CommPartners. “Intuitive Voice Technologies’ Evolution PBX is an excellent complement to our trunk replacement service and hosted applications. The advanced features and low Total Cost of Ownership enables our reseller partners to deliver an attractive solution for their customers.”

Intuitive Voice Technologies next generation of voice communication platform enables VoIP service providers and telecom solution resellers to deliver highly advanced PBX features at an affordable cost to the business customer. IVT’s Evolution PBX software is an Asterisk based IP PBX that runs on the Linux platform. Evolution PBX software starts at $699, while turnkey systems such as the Evolution Mini appliance package starts at $999.

“We are very excited to have obtained this certification status with CommPartners. The combination of their network service and our technology has proven to be an exceptional PBX experience for the SMB customer,” said Chris Jones, CEO of Intuitive Voice Technology.

Evolution PBX was designed to enable a small business with little or no IT staff to benefit from the recent wave of telephony enhancements, allowing users features commonly available in high-end PBX systems.

About CommPartners: CommPartners is a nationwide IP-based network operator providing wholesale VoIP and enhanced IP applications to carriers, strategic partners and VARS. The CommPartners IP network has been engineered to provide business-grade, IP-based voice and other value-added services. CommPartners has obtained Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) certifications in 48 states and the District of Columbia and certifications in the remaining states are pending. With nationwide IP network coverage, CommPartners delivers reliable, high quality, and competitively priced carrier and wholesale hosted IP services for business. Services include IP PBX, IP Trunking(TM), hosted contact center and other applications and services. CommPartners wholesale services are supported by a scalable and automated OSS platform for billing and account management. For more information, call 702-367-VOIP (8647) or visit CommPartners’ website at http://www.commpartners.us/.

About Intuitive Voice Technology: Led by some of the leading Internet, Telephony and CTI engineers in the industry, IVT is bringing the small business community features and support unparalleled in today’s marketplace. IVT’s goal is to package the best of breeds of technology and practices in an easy to use intuitive interface allowing small businesses to achieve unimaginable return on their phone system investment. With Asterisk based Evolution PBX and Java based iView Operator Console, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and sales professionals can have a communications system that functions similar to the million-dollar PBX systems FORTUNE 500 companies use. For more information, call (602) 249-5750 or visit the Intuitive Voice website at http://www.intuitivevoice.com/.

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Introducing the next generation of voice communication: Evolution PBX offers state-of-the-art IP Telephony features in a highly intuitive, low maintenance PBX. IVT’s Evolution PBX software is an Asterisk based IP PBX that runs on the Linux platform. Evolution PBX software starts at $699, while the Evolution Mini appliance and software package starts at $999.

“We have launched an aggressive reseller offering that enables you to Co-Brand our interface and receive steep discounts on our products and services. That, coupled with recent enhancements in the product, makes this one of the best PBX reseller opportunities available,” said Chris Jones, CEO of Intuitive Voice Technology.

Evolution PBX and iView Operator console are designed to enable a small business with or without an IT staff to benefit from the recent wave of telephony enhancements, allowing users features commonly available in high end systems.

“Our three tiered reseller approach allows our resellers to maximize their margin as recognition for the value they add to the end user. The program offers easy entry and a simple path for resellers to grow as their business and area of expertise in Evolution increases,” said Aaron Ingegneri, VP of Sales of Intuitive Voice Technology.

IVT hosts a webinar every Wednesday for resellers interesting in joining the new program. Highlights of the program include a reseller program overview, hardware options, upcoming training opportunities, iView operator console introduction, and upcoming product plans. Registration is limited. Interested resellers should email resellers@intuitivevoice.com.

About Intuitive Voice Technology: Led by some of the leading Internet, Telephony and CTI engineers in the industry, IVT is bringing the small business community features and support unparalleled in today’s marketplace. IVT’s goal is to package the best of breeds of technology and practices in an easy to use intuitive interface allowing small businesses to achieve unimaginable return on their phone system investment. With Asterisk based Evolution PBX and Java based iView operator console, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and sales professionals can have a communications system that functions similar to the million-dollar PBX systems FORTUNE 500 companies use. To request a demo of iView and Evolution PBX users are encouraged to e-mail:demo@intuitivevoice.com or visit www.intuitivevoice.com.

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