Customers gain low-cost and guaranteed connectivity to business-class VoIP services
Plymouth, MN –September 2nd, 2009 – Ecessa today announced that telephony provider MyTELEPATH is utilizing Ecessa’s ClariLink™, the first WAN controller with specialized SIP-application delivery, to manage multiple broadband links and ensure reliability of its VoIP services. MyTELEPATH has integrated Ecessa’s ClariLink within its network infrastructure to provide SME customers with reliable and affordable VoIP service over low-cost broadband connections such as T1, DSL, and cable.

SMEs now have an affordable solution for SIP calls that will not be dropped when using low-cost broadband connections. MyTELEPATH delivers its VoIP services with NetSapiens SNAPswitch, a critical component to their IP telephony service infrastructure. To provide to its customers more reliability and failover of services, MyTELEPATH selected ClariLink due to these capabilities and its ability to work seamlessly with the NetSapiens solution. Before being deployed to the network, Ecessa’s ClariLink was tested for interoperability with the SNAPswitch to ensure that the products worked together successfully.

By adding ClariLink to MyTELEPATH’s VoIP network, SIP traffic is able to be deployed reliably across multiple network connections for redundant connectivity and automatic real-time failover to existing customers as well as to customers located in rural areas of the country. “ClariLink allows MyTELEPATH and our partners to provide robust, cost-effective business-class voice service over multiple broadband providers, while ensuring reliable call delivery, even if a service provider has an outage. With this new extended service capability we expect to be successful in both rural and dense markets,” states Tom Drill, vice president of business development at MyTELEPATH. “Our goal is to give our SME customers feature rich, affordable and reliable IP Telephony service over low-cost broadband connections, giving them a similar experience to using a high-cost dedicated circuit. By achieving this, we will have successfully accomplished our goal, to deliver leading communication solutions to our partners nationally even in previously difficult opportunities. Diverse paths for mission-critical IP voice is here today”.

Deploying VoIP over broadband connections can be challenging. It is critical to make sure that calls are always connected with the IP telephony service provider. While many large enterprises can afford more expensive high-performance leased-lines to support VoIP and media-rich applications, SMEs need affordable alternatives that deliver the reliability they require, in the event that their primary Internet connection fails.

"Our customers' businesses are built around voice applications," said Jim Murphy, NetSapiens' VP of Business Development. "We engineer our SNAPsolution to provide carriers, broadband service providers and enterprise customers with mission-critical voice services with the up-time and flexibility they require. ClariLink's ability to provide real-time WAN link failover for SIP-based applications is a powerful compliment to our redundant and highly available platform."

ClariLink guarantees SIP call integrity by ensuring that all traffic persists to the correct destination, providing real-time session failover. By intelligently directing SIP traffic among multiple Internet connections, ClariLink eliminates a critical point-of-failure. “We are very excited to work with MyTELEPATH and NetSapiens to help bring this unique telephony service offering to market,” states Ron Thomas, CEO at Ecessa. “This hosted telephony service is a perfect fit that meets the needs of SME customers. For telephony providers such as MyTELEPATH, ClariLink provides the ability to offer voice network optimization not previously available to SMEs, while creating new revenue generating opportunities. Similarly, working with NetSapiens, we hope to deliver affordable technology to other telephony providers. We also view this as an opportunity to use this example as a proof point to expand our relationship with NetSapiens within their service platform environment.”

The family of ClariLink WAN Link Controllers is available immediately.

About Ecessa
Ecessa is a leader in affordable WAN link controllers for WAN and ISP link aggregation, automated load balancing, failover and network security tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical application delivery. Ecessa helps SMEs rapidly grow their business with 24/7 network high-availability, optimized WAN performance, flexible scalability and secure access - while streamlining IT costs. Ecessa uses multi-homing to connect a single LAN or WAN to multiple ISPs; enables quality-of-service (QoS) to prioritize network traffic that ensures the best possible bandwidth is always available to applications, especially during periods of congestion; and uses link load balancing and automatic failover to direct traffic to WAN links with the optimum bandwidth and cost-efficiencies. Over 6,000 companies rely on Ecessa to cost-effectively ensure that each application has the appropriate Internet bandwidth and availability needed to support user and business requirements. The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MN. For more information, visit www.ecessa.com, or call us at 1-800-669-6242.

About MyTELEPATH
Since 2002 MyTelepath has delivered managed communication solutions to business customers that reduce capital expense without increasing operating expense. MyTelepath continues to be an expert in IP Telephony. By leveraging emerging technology changes, the company has expanded into other market segments such as call centers, and over the last three years, has expanded nationally through a channel of partner resellers who earn commissions and capital interest. Additional information regarding MyTelepath is available at www.MyTelepath.com, or by calling the corporate headquarters at 866-795-VOIP (8647).

About NetSapiens
NetSapiens simplifies the delivery of IP voice and multimedia communication services by providing complete solutions for facilities based service providers. SNAPsolution leverages NetSapiens' industry expertise to integrate application software with best of breed tools and services, enabling competitive providers to quickly deploy services for increased revenue. Pre-built applications range from Hosted PBX/IP Centrex and Prepaid calling, to Unified Messaging, Conferencing, Call Center and more. NetSapiens has developed the core technology (IP multimedia platform) from the ground up and integrates with tools and services needed for customer specific deployments, thereby eliminating interoperability issues that are often present in multi-vendor VoIP networks. For more information, please visit www.netsapiens.com.