CHICAGO, Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Inteliquent
(Nasdaq: IQNT), a leading provider of global interconnection and
interoperability solutions, announces that TMC, a global,
integrated media company, has named CommonPoint® as a
recipient of a 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year
Award.
CommonPoint, part of Inteliquent's comprehensive suite of
innovative voice services, is an integrated Voice over IPX (VoIPX)
solution designed to help international wireline and mobile
carriers simplify and optimize their U.S. voice traffic
stream. CommonPoint takes the complexity out of call
termination by enabling the originating carrier to simply
route their US traffic on a terminating service provider
basis. This enables carriers to optimize their routing and leverage
the industry-leading Inteliquent network with direct end office
access to more than 550 million subscribers in the U.S., including
the support of HD Voice
In addition, CommonPoint supports direct connectivity between
service provider networks for the exchange of voice traffic
globally. With CommonPoint, carriers can interconnect to
Inteliquent via SIP or TDM in over 120 Points of Presence (PoPs)
across the globe. Inteliquent's mobile and wireline
CommonPoint customers have enjoyed a number of benefits including,
reduced costs, improved quality of service, higher revenues, as
well as support of end-to-end services like HD voice.
"CommonPoint is focused on improving voice termination for our
International customers, and is more than just a wholesale
termination option: it is a comprehensive solution that
successfully simplifies the complex U.S. numbering system and
better manages voice traffic to the U.S.," comments Surendra Saboo,
President & COO of Inteliquent. "We are excited to receive the
esteemed TMC 'Product of the Year' award for CommonPoint."
"Inteliquent was chosen to receive a 2011 Product of the Year
Award for creating outstanding advancements in communications,"
states Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC.
"CommonPoint has tangible benefits for its customers and provides a
strong ROI for the companies that use it. We congratulate
Inteliquent on the award and look forward to more innovative
solutions from them in the future."
The Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award
recognizes the vision, leadership and thoroughness, which are
characteristics of the prestigious award. The most innovative
products and services brought to the market from March 2011 through March
2012 were chosen as winners of the Communications Solutions
Product of the Year Award.
The 2011 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award
winners are published on the INTERNET TELEPHONY and Customer
Interaction Solutions Websites.
Cautions Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that
involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements,
other than statements of historical fact, included in this press
release regarding our strategy, future operations, prospects, plans
and objectives of management are forward-looking statements.
The words "anticipates," "believes," "expects," "estimates,"
"projects," "proposed," "plans," "intends," "may," "will," "would,"
and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking
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these identifying words. Actual results or events could
differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations
disclosed in the forward‑looking statements we make. Factors
that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to:
the impact of current and future regulation, including intercarrier
compensation reform enacted by the Federal Communications
Commission; the effects of competition, the risks associated with
our ability to successfully develop and market CommonPoint and
other VoIPX services, many of which are beyond our control
and all of which could delay or negatively affect our ability to
offer or market such services; technological developments; changes
in general economic or market conditions, and other important
factors included in our reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, particularly in the "Risk Factors" section of
our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2011, as such Risk Factors may be
updated from time to time in subsequent reports. Furthermore,
such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this
press release. We undertake no obligation to update any
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after
the date of such statements.
About Inteliquent
Headquartered in Chicago,
Inteliquent (operating under the legal name of Neutral
Tandem Inc., Tinet SpA and/or any of their
affiliates) provides intelligent networking to solve
challenging interconnection and interoperability issues on a global
scale. With an advanced MPLS network that is highly
interconnected to carriers around the world, Inteliquent provides
voice, IP Transit, Ethernet and hosted service solutions to major
carriers, service providers, and content management firms based in
over 80 countries and six continents. With over 120 Ethernet sites
worldwide, the company is one of the largest global Ethernet
interconnection providers, a top five global IP transit provider
and has a leading IPv6 network. Please visit Inteliquent's website
at www.inteliquent.com and follow us on
Twitter@Inteliquent.
About TMC
TMC is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a global, integrated
media company that helps clients build communities in print, in
person, and online. TMC publishes the Customer Interaction
Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, and Cloud
Computing magazines. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world's
leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two
million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news
and articles for the communications and technology industries. In
addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: Cloud
Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo);
DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M
Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference &
Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; Video World Conference
& Expo and more.
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
TMC Contact:
Jan Pierret
Marketing Manager
203-852-6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com
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