Vyve Broadband Selects Level 3 Carrier Cloud Voice Solution

BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) today announced that it has signed a new agreement with Vyve Broadband, a U.S.-based cable and Internet services provider, to deliver the Level 3 Carrier Cloud Voice Solution. This seamless cloud-based solution delivers full-featured voice services and a simplified operational environment.

Selection of the Level 3 Carrier Cloud Voice Solution will provide Vyve the platform to enhance its delivery of voice services and ensure a reliable customer experience while minimizing the typical infrastructure and ongoing operating expenses of an in-house solution.

“Vyve Broadband was formed with a core strategy to provide a truly, next-generation broadband customer experience to the largely underserved markets that we have recently acquired,” said Vin Zachariah, senior vice president of Residential Services for Vyve Broadband. “After a rigorous analysis of all of the potential voice technology partners, Vyve is confident that the Level 3 cloud voice solution is the best offering for our commercial and residential customers.”

Developed through a teaming agreement with Alianza, a leader in cloud voice platforms, Level 3 Carrier Cloud Voice Solution combines the company’s voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) Enhanced Local Service with Alianza’s Cloud Voice Platform. The result is a turnkey solution that combines a broad network footprint with a comprehensive hosted platform to deliver residential and business VoIP services with a lower total cost of voice delivery. Alianza’s Cloud Voice Platform provides all voice technology, robust application program interfaces (APIs) for back-office integration and ease of management via web-based portals.

“Carrier-grade, cloud-based voice solutions solve several key challenges faced by cable providers who wish to deliver comprehensive service bundles to their customers while simultaneously driving revenue growth,” said Shaun Andrews, Level 3’s senior vice president of Global Voice Services. “Emerging IP-based voice services are evolving at a rapid pace, so this solution helps service providers ‘future proof’ their voice offering and stay on the cutting edge of new features, freeing up resources to focus investment on core growth platforms and ongoing technological advancements.”

For more information on Level 3’s Carrier Cloud Solutions, visit http://www.level3.com/en/resource-library/brochure/cloud-carrier-voice/.

About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE:LVLT) is a Fortune 500 company that provides local, national and global communications services to enterprise, government and carrier customers. Level 3’s comprehensive portfolio of secure, managed solutions includes fiber and infrastructure solutions; IP-based voice and data communications; wide-area Ethernet services; video and content distribution; data center and cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves customers in more than 500 markets in over 60 countries across a global services platform anchored by owned fiber networks on three continents and connected by extensive undersea facilities. For more information, please visit www.level3.com or get to know us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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