TAMPA, FL.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2007--Switch and Data (NASDAQ: SDXC), a leading provider of Internet exchange and colocation services, today announced that voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services provider Broadvox has expanded its presence into Switch and Data facilities in nine markets to extend its reach and further penetrate the fast-growing wholesale, enterprise, and small and medium business (SMB) VoIP markets.  Broadvox lowers transit costs, enables new services and improves voice quality by colocating and connecting to its customers and prospects in Switch and Data’s facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Seattle, and Tampa.

An important new Broadvox initiative is its GO! SIP Trunking solution which transports calls and services to and from customers in an IP end-to-end environment.  This gives enterprise and SMB customers the full financial savings and feature benefits of purchasing an IP or Hybrid PBX.  Broadvox estimates this solution can reduce customer’s voice communications spend by up to 70%, while also allowing the rollout of new Unified Messaging and Presence-based applications.  Broadvox uses Switch and Data’s PAIX® VoIP solution to exchange its traffic with other providers in a facility via an all-IP peering environment, partitioned from other PAIX peering traffic to provide high voice quality service.

“Switch and Data gives us extensive geographic reach and will allow us to immediately expand our new Broadvox GO! SIP Trunking product line into new markets nationwide,” said Sergey Galchenko, Chief Technology Officer for Broadvox.  “We can drive down costs and enable the rollout of new enhanced IP voice services to our customers by being closer to call origination and termination points and eliminating unnecessary VoIP/TDM conversions.”

Broadvox is expanding into new Switch and Data facilities to meet fast growing demand for VoIP services in markets across the United States.  Communications industry research firm TeleGeography reports that U.S. VoIP subscription rates grew 117%, from 4.2 million subscribers at the end of 2005 to 9.0 million by the end of 2006.  By mid-year 2007, 11.8 million VoIP lines were in service.  Annual VoIP services revenue topped $2.6 billion in 2006, and TeleGeography estimates revenue will exceed $4.9 billion in 2007.

“Switch and Data’s wide geographic footprint and high density and diversity of carriers, services providers and customers provide the ideal environment for Broadvox to grow its wholesale VoIP business,” said Ernie Sampera, Senior Vice President Marketing at Switch and Data. “Broadvox accelerates deployment of its new SIP trunking service to enterprises and SMBs by originating and terminating traffic IP end-to-end on our PAIX VoIP Exchanges in multiple markets nationwide.”

About the PAIX VoIP Exchange
Switch and Data’s PAIX VoIP Exchange is a unique and dedicated VLAN peering fabric for the exchange of real-time voice traffic across numerous and diverse networks. This VoIP ecosystem delivers cost efficiencies, higher quality of service, new roads to revenue, increased speed to market through geographic reach, and a faster return on investment. Providers of VoIP services, companies offering services to VoIP providers and enterprises looking to connect to VoIP providers can utilize existing or new PAIX ports in Switch and Data’s neutral marketplace to reduce costs and drive increased revenue.  The PAIX VoIP Exchange supports multiple protocols, applications, call routing and registry services, and scalable speeds.

About Switch and Data
Switch and Data is a leading provider of Internet exchange and colocation services. Based in Tampa, Florida, Switch and Data operates one of the largest footprints of neutral Internet exchange and colocation facilities in North America serving more than 870 customers. Switch and Data's PAIX is recognized worldwide as the premier name in peering and Internet exchange services and is home to one of the largest commercial exchange points in North America. For more information, please visit www.switchanddata.com.

About Broadvox
Founded in 2001, Broadvox is a worldwide leader in providing integrated managed VoIP services to SMB, Enterprise and Carrier customers. It has deployed one of the largest, full-featured global VoIP networks and is trusted by more than 160 telecommunications carriers, CLECs, ISPs and over a thousand enterprises to terminate and originate over six billion minutes annually. The Broadvox network operations center provides the reliability, security and quality of service required by the world’s most discriminating customers. Broadvox offers SIP Trunking, SIP origination and termination services and hosted communications solutions. Broadvox is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Please visit www.Broadvox.net for additional information.
 

Contact: Brian Ruby, ICR, 203.682.8268, brian.ruby@icrinc.com

Contact: David Byrd, VP Marketing, 214.646.8004, dbyrd@broadvox.net

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