Voyant and Akamai Team to Offer Enhanced Web Conferencing Capabilities
The Akamai Conference service is a family of conference casting solutions that incorporates live audio and video streaming services and interactive components into traditional conference call offerings. Through an integrated offering, Voyant and Akamai will enable conference service providers to deliver fully automated Web conferencing capabilities that incorporate streaming audio for engaging end user experiences. In addition, organizations can extend the benefits of real-time Web conferencing through on-demand capabilities, archiving, recording and play back features.
"We're excited to align with Voyant to bring greater usability and reliability to Web conferencing solutions that feature live and on-demand streaming audio," said Tony Falco, vice president of product management, Akamai. "This mutually beneficial relationship will create a high-performance offering for businesses looking to streamline internal and external communications via the Internet."
Voyant's next-generation automated voice conferencing solution, ReadiVoiceTM, will interoperate with the Akamai Conference service to optimize Web conferencing performance and automate streaming audio capabilities. Integrating Voyant's voice collaboration solutions will enhance the Akamai Conference service and provide a cost effective way to communicate. Additionally, combining high-quality streaming with the power of on-demand voice conferencing provides a complete business solution for end users.
"Our alliance with Akamai will allow service providers the best of both worlds without the capital and resource outlay needed to support a streaming network," said Michael Remacle, vice president business development, Voyant Technologies. "Because Akamai and Voyant are leaders in their respective markets, the seamless integration of our solutions will deliver optimal Web conferencing performance for users worldwide."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving over 2,800 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 6,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected within 335 different telecommunications networks.
About Voyant
Voyant Technologies delivers innovative and collaborative enhanced voice solutions for switched and IP networks. The company's ground-breaking technologies enable a suite of reliable and scalable voice applications including conferencing capabilities, click-to-talk, and other e-communication services for CASPs, ASPs, service providers and next-gen carriers. In addition, Voyant's open APIs encourage developers to create differentiating voice and enriched multi-media applications that meet the needs of diverse vertical markets.
Over its 20-year history of innovation, Voyant has and continues to partner with best-of-breed companies to develop and deliver the next-generation of business communications. A successful start-up with over 225 customers in 22 different countries, Voyant has a true global vision. For more information about Voyant Technologies, visit www.voyanttech.com or call 888-447-1087.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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New integrated offering to seamlessly enable high-quality streaming audio for Web conference users worldwide
Westminster, CO and Cambridge, MA -- December 5, 2000 -- Voyant Technologies, the leading provider of enhanced voice solutions, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today announced a collaboration to provide enhanced streaming capabilities for Web and voice conferencing solutions. Through the alliance, access to the Akamai Conference service will be integrated with Voyant's voice collaboration solutions, enabling organizations to efficiently leverage high-quality streaming audio for interactive, Web-based business communications.The Akamai Conference service is a family of conference casting solutions that incorporates live audio and video streaming services and interactive components into traditional conference call offerings. Through an integrated offering, Voyant and Akamai will enable conference service providers to deliver fully automated Web conferencing capabilities that incorporate streaming audio for engaging end user experiences. In addition, organizations can extend the benefits of real-time Web conferencing through on-demand capabilities, archiving, recording and play back features.
"We're excited to align with Voyant to bring greater usability and reliability to Web conferencing solutions that feature live and on-demand streaming audio," said Tony Falco, vice president of product management, Akamai. "This mutually beneficial relationship will create a high-performance offering for businesses looking to streamline internal and external communications via the Internet."
Voyant's next-generation automated voice conferencing solution, ReadiVoiceTM, will interoperate with the Akamai Conference service to optimize Web conferencing performance and automate streaming audio capabilities. Integrating Voyant's voice collaboration solutions will enhance the Akamai Conference service and provide a cost effective way to communicate. Additionally, combining high-quality streaming with the power of on-demand voice conferencing provides a complete business solution for end users.
"Our alliance with Akamai will allow service providers the best of both worlds without the capital and resource outlay needed to support a streaming network," said Michael Remacle, vice president business development, Voyant Technologies. "Because Akamai and Voyant are leaders in their respective markets, the seamless integration of our solutions will deliver optimal Web conferencing performance for users worldwide."
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving over 2,800 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 6,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected within 335 different telecommunications networks.
About Voyant
Voyant Technologies delivers innovative and collaborative enhanced voice solutions for switched and IP networks. The company's ground-breaking technologies enable a suite of reliable and scalable voice applications including conferencing capabilities, click-to-talk, and other e-communication services for CASPs, ASPs, service providers and next-gen carriers. In addition, Voyant's open APIs encourage developers to create differentiating voice and enriched multi-media applications that meet the needs of diverse vertical markets.
Over its 20-year history of innovation, Voyant has and continues to partner with best-of-breed companies to develop and deliver the next-generation of business communications. A successful start-up with over 225 customers in 22 different countries, Voyant has a true global vision. For more information about Voyant Technologies, visit www.voyanttech.com or call 888-447-1087.
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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
