Cypress Communications (News - Alert), a provider of unified communications and hosted VoIP solutions, recently announced that its C4 IP solution won a 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) Unified Communications (News - Alert) magazine.

 

An enterprise-class hosted VoIP and unified communications solution, C4 IP enables multi-location companies to communicate seamlessly throughout the enterprise. The solution features integrated voice/data access, desktop phones, softphones.

 

In addition, C4 IP also features multimedia applications such as unified messaging, Microsoft (News - Alert) Outlook integration, collaboration, real-time presence, chat, and audio / video / Web conferencing.

 

Also, the unified communications functionality built into C4 IP is backed with local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) management, a 24/7 fully redundant national VoIP network and high-touch customer service.

 

Rich Tehrani, president and editor-in-chief of Unified Communications magazine at TMC, said that Cypress Communications has shown an “unyielding commitment” to innovation while addressing real needs in the marketplace.

 

He added: “Unified Communications is pleased to grant a 2007 Product of the Year Award to the company’s C4 IP solution.”

 

Cypress Communications said that C4 IP has made its mark on the communications industry with its “resilient network, wide range of applications and commendable scalability,” along with helping to define a new category in hosted VoIP.

 

Company’s officials explained that this category, called Communications as a Service (CaaS), is distinguished by end-to-end hosted delivery and wide array of integrated VoIP and unified communications features.

 

Frank Grillo (News - Alert), executive vice president of marketing at Cypress Communications, said that

C4 IP has forged new territory in the hosted VoIP industry, enabling small-to-medium enterprises to take advantage of unified communications technologies that are usually attainable by only the largest of enterprises.

 

“The market response to our end-to-end hosted delivery model for unified communications has been phenomenal, and we are honored to receive the Unified Communications magazine Product of the Year Award,” he added.  

 

To learn more about Communications as a Service, and C4 IP, please visit the Hosted VoIP channel on TMCnet.com, brought to you by Cypress.