Behind Most VoIP Service Providers There Is Covad

San Jose, Calif. – March 19, 2008 – Covad Communications Group Inc., (AMEX: DVW), a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications,announced several wholesale service provider partners that are using its unique voice-optimized broadband access to power their bundled service solutions. The announcement was made at the Spring VON Conference & Expo, where Lisa Graham, general manager of wholesale services for Covad, presents today at 1:00 p.m. PT in a discussion entitled, “Delivering VoIP – A Better Model: Bundling with Carrier Partners for Single Service Solutions.” Ms. Graham, responsible for managing Covad’s nationwide network of 450 wholesale partners, will discuss Covad’s Voice-
Optimized Access (VOA) product and the increasing demand for its use with partners’ VoIP services. Covad’s VOA product powers VoIP services from over fifty partners, including Bandwidth.com, CommX, and Thinking Phones Networks, enabling them to provide customers with leading, business-class voice and data services. “Covad’s unique voice-optimized broadband access enables us to provide true business-quality voice and data services from our VOIP platform,” said Michael Rogers, CommX Vice President. “Combined with Covad’s award-winning partner systems and tools, this service puts us far ahead of our competition in serving our
demanding and savvy business customers.”
Covad Voice-Optimized Access is an award-winning broadband access service that prioritizes voice packets over data on Covad’s managed nationwide network all the way through the last mile. The resulting connection minimizes packet loss, maximizes network utilization, and is designed to provide a superior voice service. VOA is available with several of Covad’s broadband access products, including T1, SDSL, and dedicated ADSL. Covad VOA fits within the existing regulatory framework and is an excellent way for voice providers looking to reduce overall costs and complexity and to differentiate their VoIP service from competitors.
In addition to VOA, Covad offers partners a broad portfolio of DSL and T1 services, including bonded T1 and next generation ADSL services that operate through the nation’s largest next-generation ADSL 2+ network. For more information on Covad services, please visit www.covad.com.
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