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PRESS For Immediate Release News Release: 1 December 2005 Centile’s IntraSwitch coupled with an outstanding knowledge & support team enables Opencentrex to launch Hosted iPBX services Rapid knowledge transfer gives Opencentrex confidence to migrate to VoIP London, December 1, 2005 – Centile, a global leader in application software server solutions, today announced that Opencentrex, the French VoIP Service Provider, successfully has launched Centile IntraSwitch for their Hosted iPBX service to the small and medium enterprise market. The Hosted iPBX application feature server offers basic and enhanced (class 5) calling features for medium to large enterprises. Centile’s Intraswitch is carrier grade platform that delivers scalability, flexibility and reliability based on open standards. Today some of the worlds leading Telecom, Media, Software and IT companies depend on Centile to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. Centile enables Opencentrex to deliver powerful iPBX applications Exploring the possibility of launching value added services for the enterprise market, Opencentrex started early discussions with Centile to launch a hosted enterprise service for the SME market. Opencentrex was impressed by the technical support and quick response of Centile's Helpdesk and R&D department, which helped them decide to select Centile's solution. "We choose Centile because we have a clear understanding of their products and R&D roadmaps and have built an intelligent relationship with their technical team. Over time, we have been impressed by Centile's technical support and ability of their R&D team to create new features to adapt to an evolving VoIP market", said Laurent Silvestri, CEO at Opencentrex. Opencentrex's interesting financial model In November, Opencentrex launched its Hosted iPBX services. The service is proposed on an ASP model at a price of 19.90 euros per month per user, including:
The solution allows a customer to eliminate their old PBX and communicate entirely through their Internet line, tremendously reducing acquisition and recurring costs. "Centile's financial model allows us to competitively enter the VoIP market without a large CAPEX investment", said Laurent Silvestri. "With this attractive model, we expect to reach 20,000 users by the end of 2006". "Centile is pleased to have Opencentrex as a customer. We recognize that knowledge transfer is a key in helping our customers deploy advanced telephony and NGN networks", said Shahal Khan, Centile's CEO. "Centile is committed to share the expertise it has acquired over the last 6 years in the design and development of software for advanced networks to help its customers deploy NGN networks with success." End Notes to Editors About Centile CENTILE is a global leader in application software server solutions and an Internet Telephony (VoIP) software vendor. Centile's communication platform, the IntraSwitch, is the result of over €40 million investment in R&D. It provides a comprehensive range of powerful applications including Hosted IP PBX, Premise based IPBX, Residential VoIP, IP Centrex and an IP Softphone. IntraSwitch allows carriers, service providers and new entrants into the VoIP space to provide application and value added features to the enterprise and residential VoIP network at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. Centile's carrier deployments include Service Providers in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Australia and Africa. To date Centile has over 1mm active lines in deployment worldwide. More information can be found on http://www.centile.com. About Opencentrex Opencentrex is a French telecom operator founded in 2005, providing a range of professional "easy to integrate" IP solutions such as IP Centrex, IPBX, Fax2mail, Mail2fax and Conference Services. For more information about Opencentrex, please visit http://www.opencentrex.com. For further information regarding Centile please contact: Marie Albinsson +33 (0)4 97 23 12 87 pr@centile.com For further information regarding Opencentrex, please contact: Laurent Silvestri +33 (0)1 76 71 05 00 lsilvestri@opencentrex.com |
