Interoute Triumphs at Leading Industry Awards

LONDON--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--Interoute, owner of Europe’s most advanced next-generation voice and data network, today announced it has won best business and consumer innovation at the Global Telecoms Business Awards, held in Central London on 17 September. The award for innovation came in the voice/data convergence category, and was presented to Interoute Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Matthew Finnie for the company’s unified communications platform, Interoute One.

“Interoute One makes corporate voice calls as easy to manage and as cost effective as email, and to have it singled out and commended for such innovation above the many competitors at such a prestigious industry awards is praise indeed, and we are truly proud to have won.”

Interoute One brings easy to use unified communications to organisations across Europe, with its drastically reduced call costs, slashed migration time to VoIP-based telephony and complete security. Interoute enables companies using Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 or Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 to form the world’s biggest business community, sharing secure Instant Messaging (IM), presence and video calls across corporate networks.

Using the Interoute network, which stretches between 85 cities in 22 countries, companies using Microsoft’s unified communications software can interconnect in a unified, free speaking community without any additional infrastructure.

“Unified Communications is the next big thing in the telecommunications sector, and is going to revolutionise the way we all communicate in the workplace,” said Matthew Finnie, CTO, Interoute. “Interoute One makes corporate voice calls as easy to manage and as cost effective as email, and to have it singled out and commended for such innovation above the many competitors at such a prestigious industry awards is praise indeed, and we are truly proud to have won.”

Interoute Share has also been short listed for a 2007 World Communication Award. This is the second year running Interoute’s Media Services have been nominated for a WCA award, in 2006 Media Manager scooped the award for Best Content Service, so a win this year would make it 2 in row.

About Interoute

Interoute is the owner operator of Europe's most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, encompassing over 54,000 kms of lit fibre. Its full-service next generation network serves more than 12,000 customers across a broad range of sectors from finance to retail and every major European incumbent, as well as the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments, universities and research agencies. These organisations find Interoute the ideal partner for hosting content, providing wholesale transit services, corporate access or creating new services. With established operations throughout mainland Europe, North America and Dubai Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe's major business centres. More than €1 billion in e-commerce transactions flows through its data centres each day, making Interoute a key part of Europe’s Digital Supply Chain. www.interoute.com

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