Strategic Partners

Cisco Systems – NASDAQ: CSCO

With more than 34,000 employees and $24 billion in annual sales, Cisco is today’s global market share leader in virtually every segment in which it participates. Offering the industry's broadest range of IP networking hardware and VoIP equipment, Cisco is the company business customers count on in support of their data and voice networking needs. PingTone's service offering includes Cisco IP telephones as well as customer premise routers, switches and other elements that comprise the Cisco AVVID architecture.

Cisco has designated PingTone a Cisco Powered Network Partner. This is an important designation as it is difficult for a service provider to achieve. It is an indication of the importance PingTone places on quality as is PingTone’s strategy of incorporating advanced Cisco IP technology within the PingTone service delivery platform. Cisco and PingTone well understand that each customer’s business voice service is always mission critical and as such requires proven networking components. In fact, nearly all PingTone customers themselves choose to incorporate Cisco technology into their local area voice and data networks (LANs) in support of PingTone VoIP service.

Tekelec – NASDAQ: TKLC

Tekelec is a leader in voice switching technology helping build smarter carrier-grade networks through innovative combinations of signaling, switching, and applications. Tekelec switching and application technologies combine to form key elements of the PingTone VoIP service. The company today is focused primarily on creating and enhancing next-generation switching solutions designed specifically for converged networks serving Class 4 and Class 5 carrier & service provider applications. Tekelec has annual revenues of $350 million and employs more than 1,200 professionals.

Sun Microsystems – NASDAQ: SUNW

A global leader in network computing, Sun Microsystems maintains offices in 150 countries and generates $15 billion in annual revenues. Sun server technology delivers mainframe class quality, virtually unlimited expandability, and cross-platform information sharing capabilities. PingTone employs redundant, carrier-grade Sun servers across the service delivery platform to power critical PingTone applications. With more than a million systems installed worldwide and 900,000 programmers developing innovative Sun Java applications, Sun is the number one database platform.