Tiscali Press Release - TISCALI OPENS THE DOOR TO LARGER SMEs WITH TEN LINE VOICE READY BROADBAND

Hot on the heels of its four line Voice Ready Broadband product, launched in May this year, Tiscali, the broadband, telephone and media company, is unveiling a ten line Voice Ready Broadband product which will make it even more attractive to larger scale SMEs. The Premium Broadband product, available from Tiscali Business Services, is the first to offer guaranteed voice quality over broadband with enhanced care and SLAs to support carrier class voice services.

Voice Ready is offered as part of the Tiscali Wholesale Connectivity ADSL product set, designed specifically for resellers wishing to provide guaranteed quality services to support real time applications such as Voice over ADSL, Video Streaming and Video Conferencing. ADSL Connectivity is ideal for service providers with an existing network infrastructure and who wish to overlay additional Tiscali network unique capabilities such as Local Loop Unbundled services and Tiscali DataStream.

"Voice Ready has already proven to be extremely popular with SMEs and our intention with this latest development is to bring the benefits of Premium Broadband to companies with larger and more demanding communications requirements," explains Lance Spencer, Tiscali Business Services Product & Marketing Director. "We can now support up to ten standard telephone channels across a single DSL line which means that the cost is very attractive and the product itself is comprehensive and highly flexible."

Voice Ready Broadband is the first service of its type to offer SLA backed, guaranteed voice quality over broadband with enhanced care to support carrier class voice services. The SLAs are on latency, jitter and packet loss, all of which are crucial to the quality of a voice call over a single broadband line. These guarantees allow resellers to offer cost effective alternatives to traditional PSTN and ISDN based services.

Other benefits to resellers include low cost interconnection with Tiscali infrastructure at 100Mb, 1Gb and 10Gb, industry-leading product development of new technologies such as ADSL2+ and the ability to provide differentiated services in the marketplace.