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The Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA) is a consortium of global industry players driving development and implementation of the first national high-definition enterprise voice and data network in the IP "cloud." Recently, Broadcore, who is a provider of VoIP, hosted PBX (News - Alert) and unified communications solutions announced that it is a founding member of the CCA. The CCA has been launched at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York City.

Monty Ferdowsi, Broadcore (News - Alert) President & CEO, said, "The future of hosted telecommunications lies in the 'cloud,' and the CCA is committed to that future. The combined strengths of eight industry leaders in hosted-IP voice and data solutions will be greater than the sum capabilities of the individual member companies. Technology will advance faster, customers will see more innovation, investment in the category will increase, and the rest of the industry will need to quicken its pace to keep up."

CCA currently consists of eight companies. Their main intention is to endorse awareness of the Cloud Communications standard and drive its development through pursuing new technical standards, capabilities and applications. The customers will get services directly from CCA thereby permitting enterprise customers to experience more flexible and manageable voice and unified communications systems.

The companies who founded CCA include Alteva, Broadcore, Callis Communications, Consolidated Technologies Inc., IPFone, SimpleSignal (News - Alert), Stage 2 Networks and Telesphere. At present, CCA members represent more than $100 million in combined annual revenue and collectively serve more than 110,000 business customers in the United States.

Broadcore is a provider of hosted unified communications services for businesses. Broadcore offers a unified communications platform for voice (VoIP), data, and mobility communications across the enterprise and multi-location businesses by using an extensible and highly scalable IP communications system. The advantages of Broad core's solutions are that they let the enterprise to increase productivity of the employee, accelerate business processes, and improve customer care through tight integration of dispersed communications endpoints for office, mobile, and call center employees.

Broadcore is one of the founding members of the Cloud Communications Alliance. It strapped up the power of each member's individual networks and systems to create a seamless, HD voice network all over the country that delivers outstanding voice quality, apps, features and cost savings.