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Critical Links Receives 2006 Product of the Year Award from Communications Solutions
edgeBOX Honored for Outstanding Innovation
San Jose, CA, USA, June 25th, 2007 – Critical Links, an international networking technology company, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) Communications Solutions (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named edgeBOX as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award.
As a multi-function business gateway that consolidates data, voice and IT services for small and medium sized businesses, edgeBOX effectively replaces an average of 4 to 6 devices, by providing a fully featured IP-PBX, router (wired and wireless LAN), security platform (VPN, Firewall, anti-spam/virus, etc.), and file/print/email/web servers along with full network access control. The result is a dramatically simplified deployment and management environment for all networking services, with significantly lower total cost of ownership.
“edgeBOX is the first multi-function device or “Office-in-a-Box” that consolidates Voice, Data, and IT at a price point accessible to the booming SMB market” points out Mr. João Carreira, Critical Links’ CEO. “The edgeBOX has a very attractive value proposal for prospective partners, wanting to enter an emerging market in converged voice+data+IT appliances. It enables resellers to shorten the go-to-market lifecycle, with a “ready to market” single integrated platform that allows resellers and service providers to quickly deploy edgeBOX at their SMB customer sites to provide managed voice and data networking services”.
edgeBOX has been identified as a key player in the emerging “Business Gateway” market by leading analyst house InStat and won the Best Broadband Appliance award at the World Broadband Forum. It was selected as a finalist by IDG Communications’ Techworld for its 2006 “Small Business Product of the Year”, and recently won the INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine’s 2006 Product of the Year Award.
“Critical Links has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in technological advancement and application refinement,” said Mr. Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions, “Critical Links has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.”
The seventh annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.
The 2006 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site.
About Critical Links
Critical Links (www.critical-links.com) is an international networking software company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMEs and Enterprise Branch Offices. edgeBOX is available in a wide range of scalable hardware platforms, including standard servers, and has the best feature to price ratio in the market, making it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMEs. edgeBOX typically replaces 4-7 single-function devices required to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely managed, with significantly lower TCO. Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer edgeBOX as a service to their SME customers.
Critical Links is a wholly owned subsidiary of Critical Software SA, established in 1998, with over 300 employees and a presence in the UK, USA, and Portugal. The company is CMMI Level 3 compliant and has a reputation for producing mission and business critical networking and telecoms solutions for the telecoms, public sector, industry, aerospace and defence markets, with customers such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Infineon Technologies, NASA, EADS and ESA.
For more information:
Carlos Taveira;
Email: carlos-taveira@critical-links.com
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
Company Contact:
TMC Contact:
Jan Pierret
203-852-6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com
San Jose, CA, USA, June 25th, 2007 – Critical Links, an international networking technology company, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) Communications Solutions (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named edgeBOX as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award.
As a multi-function business gateway that consolidates data, voice and IT services for small and medium sized businesses, edgeBOX effectively replaces an average of 4 to 6 devices, by providing a fully featured IP-PBX, router (wired and wireless LAN), security platform (VPN, Firewall, anti-spam/virus, etc.), and file/print/email/web servers along with full network access control. The result is a dramatically simplified deployment and management environment for all networking services, with significantly lower total cost of ownership.
“edgeBOX is the first multi-function device or “Office-in-a-Box” that consolidates Voice, Data, and IT at a price point accessible to the booming SMB market” points out Mr. João Carreira, Critical Links’ CEO. “The edgeBOX has a very attractive value proposal for prospective partners, wanting to enter an emerging market in converged voice+data+IT appliances. It enables resellers to shorten the go-to-market lifecycle, with a “ready to market” single integrated platform that allows resellers and service providers to quickly deploy edgeBOX at their SMB customer sites to provide managed voice and data networking services”.
edgeBOX has been identified as a key player in the emerging “Business Gateway” market by leading analyst house InStat and won the Best Broadband Appliance award at the World Broadband Forum. It was selected as a finalist by IDG Communications’ Techworld for its 2006 “Small Business Product of the Year”, and recently won the INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine’s 2006 Product of the Year Award.
“Critical Links has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in technological advancement and application refinement,” said Mr. Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions, “Critical Links has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.”
The seventh annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.
The 2006 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site.
About Critical Links
Critical Links (www.critical-links.com) is an international networking software company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMEs and Enterprise Branch Offices. edgeBOX is available in a wide range of scalable hardware platforms, including standard servers, and has the best feature to price ratio in the market, making it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMEs. edgeBOX typically replaces 4-7 single-function devices required to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely managed, with significantly lower TCO. Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer edgeBOX as a service to their SME customers.
Critical Links is a wholly owned subsidiary of Critical Software SA, established in 1998, with over 300 employees and a presence in the UK, USA, and Portugal. The company is CMMI Level 3 compliant and has a reputation for producing mission and business critical networking and telecoms solutions for the telecoms, public sector, industry, aerospace and defence markets, with customers such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Infineon Technologies, NASA, EADS and ESA.
For more information:
Carlos Taveira;
Email: carlos-taveira@critical-links.com
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
Company Contact:
TMC Contact:
Jan Pierret
203-852-6800, ext. 228
jpierret@tmcnet.com