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Tiscali Certifies Virtual Access Appliances

Tiscali UK has certified the Virtual Access Service Managed Gateway family of managed customer premises equipment (CPE) appliances for use on the Tiscali QoDSL IPVPN networks.  Virtual Access is now one of only two CPE providers approved by Tiscali for use by reseller channels on the Tiscali QoDSL IPVPN networks.

Virtual Access CPE appliances are a cost-effective alternative to other CPE products and offer Tiscali channel partners a substantial range of business benefits, including:

  • A family of CPE appliances for corporate teleworker, small SME, retail, and medium-sized SME projects
  • IP-Touch, a fully outsourced managed service model that offers the Tiscali business broadband reseller a hands-off approach to deploying and managing CPE.; and
  • IP-Select, a self delivery service model that minimises the costs associated with deploying, managing, and monitoring CPE-based services for those Tiscali channels that need to be directly involved in the service delivery process.

Nigel Ifill, Director of Sales for Virtual Access, says: 'This certification opens up the availability of a substantial range of new Managed CPE product and services to Tiscali UK's large community of business broadband resellers.'

Many of these companies are major entities in the markets of corporate network management, consultancy and integration services offering IPVPN (MPLS) based broadband services to their corporate and enterprise customers. 

With Virtual Access' central management servers installed within the core of Tiscali's IPVPN networks, the major business benefits Virtual Access can now provide to these companies are: speed of service deployment and the reduction of costs involved with installation, provisioning and management of large CPE based private networks.'

Henry Brankin, CEO of Virtual Access, sees good growth in Virtual Access business-class services as a result of the Tiscali certification. 'Tiscali's certification of our CPE and related services endorses the value of the Virtual Access offerings to the business community. We are delighted to be partnering with Tiscali in the delivery of their QoDSL and MPLS services and we are confident that we will see a tremendous growth of these business-class services in the near future,' says Mr. Brankin.

Lance Spencer, Product Development Director, Tiscali Business Services says: 'Tiscali has unparalleled experience in delivering QoDSL MPLS IPVPNs and we are delighted to be able to add Virtual Access CPE to the approved portfolio not only from a technical perspective, but also from the additional business benefits they offer to the overall solution'.

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