New POP supports customers’ cloud services and connectivity needs.

360networks, a facilities-based wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, and VoIP services.

Today announced the completion of a fiber optic build to IO PHOENIX. 360networks now offers Ethernet, IP, Wavelengths, DSx, and OCN services from this new location.

“Our data centers offer the largest enterprises and service providers the flexibility to select the carriers they want for their network operations,” said Anthony Wanger, President of IO.

“Adding 360networks expands the options for IO’s customers in choosing the connectivity and services that work best  in price, performance, and location for their businesses.”

IO, the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services, is headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz.

IO PHOENIX is the largest commercially available data center in the United States to achieve Tier III Design Certification from the Uptime Institute for Phase 1.

“Data center connectivity is and will remain a priority for 360networks,” said Rick Coma, senior vice president for 360networks.

“By working with top data center infrastructure operators like IO, we will continue to expand our reach to support customers’ cloud services and other needs, not only in large markets like Phoenix but beyond, into smaller markets as well.”

360networks offers a full line of fiber broadband solutions, each with the flexibility to support customers’ unique capacity, interface, geographic and pricing needs to include dedicated Ethernet, switched Ethernet, optical, wavelengths, SONET and IP services.

All 360networks’s services leverage the company’s 18,500 route mile network to over 70 tier 1 to 4 markets, with more than 130 POPs and over 300 market capable sites.

360networks, a facilities-based wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, and VoIP services, today announced the launch of its new VoIP customer portal, 360connect.

360connect is an easy to use web portal for customers to manage their VoIP-related interactions with 360networks, directly from their desktop.

Customers will soon have the option of integrating internal applications directly into 360networks’s ordering and provisioning services via an application programming interface (API).

Utilities include reserving and activating telephone numbers, placing directory listings orders, reviewing inventory, submitting and monitoring trouble tickets, managing local number portability (LNP) requests and much more.

“We are constantly looking for ways to improve our customers’ experience,” said Nick Reifschneider, VoIP product director for 360networks.

“360connect makes it easier than ever to do business with 360networks, streamlining administrative functions while still providing the responsive service our customers have come to expect,”

“We appreciate 360networks’s high quality service with a personal touch,” said Megan Outcalt,LNP/provisioning manager for JAB Broadband.

We are quite pleased with the simplicity 360connect provides; but, we know we can always get live support when we need it.”

In addition to 360networks VoIP services, the company also provides VoIP customers with a full selection of wholesale services to include IP Transit, Private Line, and Ethernet services, all from a single source.

About 360networks

360networks is a full service wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, and VoIP services, on its wholly-owned fiber optic backbone. Its facilities-based network provides deep coverage, spanning 18,500 miles to tier 1 to 4 U.S. markets (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico,North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) and British Columbia.

Financially strong and a CLEC in 36 states, 360networks helps the nation’s voice, data and web-based application and service providers to quickly pursue next generation strategies, migrate from legacy networks, grow into new markets and services, and increase network diversity. www.360networks.com

360networks Media Contact:

Scott R Fincher, Product Marketing Manager

303.854.5016 (p)

303.886.0566 (c)

scott.fincher@360networks.com

SEATTLE, WA – July 30, 2011 – 360networks, a facilities-based wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, and VoIP services, today announced NTS Communications has selected the 360networks Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) Service in support of end user needs between Lubbock and Amarillo, Texas. In addition, 360networks also deployed optical wavelengths for NTS from Lubbock to Wichita Falls, Texas.

NTS Communications, a subsidiary of Xfone, Inc., provides integrated voice, data and video solutions to business and residential customers in West Texas as well as seven additional states.The company operates the region’s largest non-ILEC telecommunications network, with a Fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) platform that supports its voice, video and data triple play offering.

“We needed capacity to key markets, protected circuits, and competitive prices; 360networks’s unique coverage footprint in West Texas gave us the markets we needed,” said Priscilla Rivas, Vice President, Network Administration for NTS Communications. “Its EVPL service provided the pay-as-you-grow solution we were looking for, with the wavelengths enhancing protection in critical markets.”

“We are proud to expand our long-standing relationship with NTS,” said Steve Cardwell, vice president of sales for 360networks. “For customers like NTS needing to go beyond the major metropolitan areas, we provide a one-stop shop with the full line of high quality services to the markets they need, competitively priced, and backed by the high levels of customer service we’ve built our reputation on.”

The 360networks EVPL service is fully mesh-protected for ubiquitous connectivity between major carrier hotels, data centers, Internet exchanges, and neutral peering points across the company’s entire 18,500 route mile footprint. 360networks’s EVPL eliminates the mileage associated with traditional private line services. Customers instead, pay a monthly recurring charge per port in point-to-point or point-to-multipoint configurations.

Because 360networks owns and operates the network, its EVPL customers benefit from a level of reliability and control not available from shared network configurations. Combined with the company’s deep coverage to major metros, as well as dozens of smaller markets, NTS decreases network complexity, improves and optimizes capacity and reduces costs.

About 360networks

360networks is a full service wholesale provider of Private Line Transport,thernet, IP, and VoIP services, on its wholly-owned fiber optic backbone. Its facilities-based network provides deep coverage, spanning 18,500 miles to tier 1 to 4 U.S. markets (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana,Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico,North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah,Washington, and Wyoming) and British Columbia.

Financially strong and a CLEC in 36 states, 360networks helps the nation’s voice, data and web-based application and service providers to quickly pursue next generation strategies, migrate from legacy networks, grow into new markets and services, and increase network diversity. www.360networks.com

About Xfone, Inc

Xfone is a provider of high speed broadband services, including Internet access, digital cable TV programming and local and long distance telephone service to residential and business customers in northern Texas and southeastern Louisiana.

Xfone’s Fiber-To-The-Premise (FTTP) network provides one of the fastest internet connections available. The Company currently has operations in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana and also serves customers in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. For the company’s website, please visit: www.xfone.com.

360networks Media Contact:

Scott R Fincher, Product Marketing Manager

303.854.5016 (p)

303.886.0566 (c)

scott.fincher@360networks.com

RIM (think “Blackberry and Research in Motion“) announces this week its Mobile Voice System 5 and a new device, the Blackberry Pearl 9100. The MVC 5 makes VoIP calling over WiFi for small business users more a reality than ever. Listen to a podcast and video of an example of a company already leveraging (for the past 3 years) RIM, IP PBX, and domestic/international direct inward dialing on iTunes #69 and Youtube.

The Mobile Voice System 5  works with Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager. It can find the location of a Blackberry that is connected via WiFi to an actual desktop phone number. As a result, users can send and receive calls like they are back in the office.

In February 2009, Omar Chohan of SACS stated, “The way we’ve been doing this for the past few years or so … Calls are routed via SIP into our PBX for example in our USA or Dubai office or while we are out anywhere just holding our Blackberry cell phone. They are provisioned as Blackberry calls One Number Reach. In addition, the MVS offering enables DID to be used as a mask for inbound and outbound calls. The caller ID will not be the Blackberry number but instead the DID from DIDX.”

These solutions that have been around long before this recent Blackberry announcement, as Chohan shows, enables individuals and organizations the opportunity to record calls, forward calls, block calls, call hunt and other things that the Internet-protocol based PBXs have enabled for many years.

Mobile Voice System 5, itself, will be available sometime in 2010. Meanwhile, check with your favorite vendors of IP PBX who leverage the RIM and other mobile platforms, wholesale or retail, on how to use this type of service in the future.

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ohn starts his presentation with something like … instead of fearing PBX vendors who offer an alternative to traditional PBX, go the easy route and make them your ally. Resell IP PBX from an outsourced vendor and ensure quality of service since you control the network as an ISP.

On the other hand, John says, “Mobile phones fail on service and flexibility.”

(I was wondering if he has tried the Nokia e61i? I have one since May 2008 and find it a very useful and flexible tool. But then again, it is very difficult to find one. They are more popular in Europe and Asia and more easily available there from the local mobile companies. See my blog posts on mobile voip at http://suzanne.supertec.com/search?q=mobile+voip.)

Todd believes the mobile phone has not replaced the landline as the top choice of telephony. He mentions the IPhone as an example of inflexibility for business use.

(Check out the article that compares a Blackberry Storm to an IPhone at http://www.newsoxy.com/blackberry/article11516.html.)

Asterisk assists you to provide more interesting services more quickly. No matter where you use Asterisk whether at the customer premise or in your switching center, Asterisk can make your company clearly a better choice unless your competition also uses Asterisk.

John Todd states, “In which case, you’ve got to rely on that fundamental that you’ve got which is the network.”

And I guess he means here that the better quality your network and because of the control that ISPs have to manage their network, the better they can compete with other ISPs who use Asterisk who may not manage as well. But I personally think that customer service and company leadership matter just as much.

Most ISPs in the audience at ISPCON are selling PBX services and POTS and really SIP trunking which displaces existing vendors is basically what John added. He shared a chart with us