Vertical Xcelerator IP™ Wins 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award

Vertical’s next generation phone system is the Wave IP2500.

Wave IP2500 – released summer 2007

Vertical acquired a number of companies since Televantage was first released. They also have a number of new partners including LG-Nortel Co., Ltd. (which owns 20% of Vertical). Vertical is now making its own hardware. Wave can be viewed as a “rewrite” of Televantage running on Vertical hardware. It is expected Wave’s feature set will improve dramatically over the next 24 months. As of this writing – May 2008 – it does not have the feature set of Televantage. It does not yet have the level of VoIP feature support, the ability to NAT, Call Center support, or graphical user interface functionality Televantage 8 has. If you are a Televantage owner expect to be looking at a Wave comparable to Televantage’s existing features in the next 12 to 24 months. After that the future of Televantage (though renamed) is likely to be primarily on the Wave platform. Wave will offer Televantage users tremendous ROI wins when this occurs.

ROI improvement at Televantage feature parity

• Reduction in license cost estimated at 70%
• Reduction in hardware cost estimated at 50%
• Reduction in subscription cost (annual software assurance) of approximately 50%
• All licenses types pre-loaded and available for trial use at no cost
• Viewpoint for all users with no additional cost