Covad Communications has launched a new integrated access service for its channel partners. The new service features a new online quote and order system that Covad says can cut days to weeks off provisioning time.
The service is aimed at firms with up to 35 employees per location. Covad delivers the service over a voice-optimized T1 line, and the service works with customers' existing phone systems.
Customers can start with as few as four phone lines, and new lines can be added one by one, rather than in the more typical "blocks".
Covad completely overhauled its ordering process for this service. The new online ordering system handles quotes, pre-qualification and contracts all in one place and all in real time. Partners can store and manage quotes and orders through the website, and can check potential deal-killers—such as number portability—at the beginning of the process, rather than at the end.
"This is the voice and data service we've been asking for. The new online ordering system is easy to use and lets us know right up front that we can make a deal work," said Dan Keane, Director of Partner Sales with Keane Telecom Consulting, LLC, in Atco, New Jersey.
Covad Integrated Access now also utilizes SIP trunking and supports a wide range of IP, digital and analog PBXs.
Pricing starts at $435 per month with no installation fees.
The service uses Covad's voice-optimized technology to dynamically allocate bandwidth between voice and data.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Covad Launches Channel Offer
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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The new online ordering system handles quotes, pre-qualification and contracts all in one place and all in real time.
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