Cypress Communications (News - Alert) today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation has named C4 IP
as a recipient of the 2008 “TMC Labs Innovation Award,” presented by Unified Communications (News - Alert) magazine.
This is the fourth award Cypress’ C4 IP product has received this year for innovation in the communications industry.
“Cypress Communications has demonstrated a commitment to quality and to the further development of the unified communications industry through its comprehensive hosted VoIP
and unified communications product, C4 IP,” said Tom Keating (News - Alert), chief technical officer and TMC Labs editorial director at TMC.
C4 IP is an enterprise-class hosted VoIP and unified communications product that features integrated voice and data access, desktop phones, soft phones, unified messaging
and cutting-edge multimedia applications such as Microsoft (News - Alert) Outlook integration, collaboration, real-time presence, chat, as well as audio, video and Web conferencing.
Frank Grillo (News - Alert), executive vice president of marketing at Cypress Communications, said with C4 IP, “we’ve bundled the unified communications technology with a hosted delivery model and managed it all 24/7 – the user’s phone, the LAN/WAN
and the private VoIP network.”
The TMC Labs Innovation Award recognizes products that demonstrate “raw innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology,” according to TMC officials.
2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award winners can be found in the May 2008 issue of Unified Communications magazine.
In March Cypress’s Grillo was named the 2008 Technology Marketing Executive of the Year by the Technology Association of Georgia.
The honor is awarded “in recognition of an individual’s contributions within an organization and toward the advancement of technology marketing as a whole,” according to the association. Qualification is based on peer nominations and an ultimate winner is chosen through a review and interview process by a selection committee.
Selection criteria include impact on the organization’s mission, involvement in organizations outside of the workplace, and demonstrated leadership within and outside the company.
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