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Advanced Continuity to Offer TeleContinuity's Disaster-Proof, Survivable Backup Telecom Network to Customers of its Floodgate Notification Solution
Falls Church, VA (September 24, 2004) — Advanced Continuity, Inc. today announced that it will begin offering TeleContinuity's disaster-proof and survivable backup telecommunications network to customers of Advanced Continuity's innovative Floodgate™ Notification Solution.
“We are extremely pleased to partner with TeleContinuity to enhance our emergency notification solution and provide our customers with survivable telecommunications in the event of a disaster,” said Advanced Continuity Vice President JJ Nathan. “Using the TeleContinuity Network will guarantee that our clients will be able to receive all notifications regardless of network outages.”
Floodgate is one of the most advanced, efficient, and easy-to-use emergency notification products. Floodgate offers emergency and non-emergency notification delivery to mass quantities of people. Within minutes it will instantaneously and continuously communicate voice and text messages to all standard message delivery devices until the message is received by the intended party. It can be activated by making a single toll-free call or by web-based methods. Floodgate uses include, but are not limited to the military, banking, municipalities, schools, emergency response teams, hospitals and corporations.
As a result of the agreement between Advanced Continuity and TeleContinuity, Floodgate customers can opt to have the TeleContinuity disaster-proof and survivable telecom network as a backup network for the Floodgate service in the event of a network outage.
TeleContinuity is the world's first provider of a disaster-proof and survivable backup telecommunications network. Through TeleContinuity's proprietary intelligent communications routing and switching technology and strategically located network operation centers, users can easily and quickly switch control of their telephone service or Floodgate service to TeleContinuity’s disaster-proof and survivable backup telecommunications network. Once this is done, customers can receive their phone calls or Floodgate notifications at any location they like over whatever device they choose, whether it is a fixed landline phone, cell phone, PDA or e-mail.
TeleContinuity's solution makes this possible because it can sense open and available circuits on both the public switched telephone network and the Internet. It can, on-the-fly and without human intervention, create an operational network in real-time from an infinite variety of network routing options. Calls are moved back-and-forth between the Internet and public switched networks as many times and in as many combinations as necessary. Calls are then routed around a network outage to assure call completion from any location-to-any-location over any device.
About Advanced Continuity, Inc.
Advanced Continuity, Inc. provides products, services and solutions focused on business continuity, disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning to commercial and federal government customers worldwide. Through innovation and by partnering with world-class leaders in academia, industry and government, Advanced Continuity is providing products and services to ensure that organizations can protect lives, skill sets and mission critical operations during a disruption or disaster. Founded by Charles Patten Jr. and JJ Nathan, Advanced Continuity is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. Information on Advanced Continuity can be found at http://www.advcontinuity.com.
About TeleContinuity
Founded in the wake of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent Anthrax attacks on Congress, TeleContinuity is focused on providing telecommunications assurance services to businesses and government customers worldwide. Positioned as "telecommunications gap insurance," TeleContinuity delivers a seamless, low cost, network-level solution that will restore incoming telephone service to users within minutes of a PBX or telephone company failure, fiber cut, fire, flood, building evacuation, or catastrophic event. TeleContinuity's unique technology will enable users to be reached at their existing telephone extensions — via any network, any device, and at any location — as though no service disruption had ever occurred. TeleContinuity's solution offers customers the ability to immediately resume business operations telephonically following a communications disruption, thereby minimizing, or even eliminating the economic impact that would have resulted from the interruption.
TeleContinuity, Inc., headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, was founded by Roy Pinchot, President and CEO, Raul Vera, Chief Technical Officer, and Michael Rosenberg, Executive Vice President. All have extensive backgrounds in telephony, information technology, marketing and sales. TeleContinuity, Inc. is a 2003 winner of The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program (NIST-ATP) Grant Competition. For more information, visit http://www.TeleContinuity.com.
Contact for Information:
Roy Pinchot
Chief Executive Officer
Tel: (240) 453-6235
Email: rpinchot@telecontinuity.com