Columbus, OH – May 18th, 2020 – Horizon, a regional fiber broadband company based in Ohio, and Official Communications Provider for the Columbus Blue Jackets, has announced the launch of their highly anticipated Horizon Hosted Voice product.
Through a partnership with Alianza, a leading cloud communications platform for service providers, Horizon’s Hosted Voice offers a new cloud-based, agile software-as-a-service VoIP solution to their business customers. Hosted Voice will run over Horizon’s fiber network and will be delivered directly to customer premises as an add-on feature with other services like Ethernet, Direct Internet Access (DIA), Dark Fiber or Wavelengths.
“Companies have been looking to eliminate and retire premise-based phone systems with cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) platforms. UC Platforms enable more complex communications with the ability to self-manage the services and eliminate capital expenditures, operating expenses and maintenance efforts.” says Craig Drinkhall, Director of Products and Sales Engineering for Horizon. “The Horizon Hosted Voice services can grow and scale with the business and can integrate multiple locations as a single company.”
The unified communication solution that Horizon Hosted Voice provides includes many features such as a scalable and future-proof cloud platform, easy geographic expansion, portals for quick and simple self-managed adjustments, competitive call plans, Hosted IP Voice Stations and Hosted SIP Trunks.
“A significant focus for Horizon in 2020 is to be more innovative by developing products and services that are both synergistic to our core fiber products, and offer a high value-add to our customers and prospects,” stated Glenn Lytle, CRO for Horizon. “Given the ever-changing environment we now live in, it is more important than ever to have a reliable, flexible and full-featured voice platform to pair with our already well-established data products,” says Lytle. “Horizon Hosted Voice provides the opportunity for us to now provide bundled products and services with a full data, internet and voice package that our customers have been urging us to offer.”
Businesses wanting to inquire about Horizon Hosted Voice are asked to contact Horizon directly by phone (866) 418-8126 or request a quote online https://www.horizonconnects.com/enterprise-fiber/services/horizon-hosted-voice.
ABOUT HORIZON
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Horizon is a leading fiber-optic broadband carrier operating in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan. The extensive network offers high speed Ethernet, Dedicated Internet Access, dark fiber, wavelength, cloud communications and data center connection services primarily to business customers. Horizon’s entrepreneurial heritage, dating back 125 years, and long-standing commitment to remarkable customer care, ensures its devotion to connecting customers to their worlds through the delivery of cutting-edge fiber-optic technology.
ABOUT NOVACAP
Founded in 1981, Novacap, Horizon’s owner, is a leading Canadian private equity firm with $2.6 billion of assets under management. The firm’s unique investment approach, based on deep operational expertise and an active partnership with entrepreneurs, has helped accelerate growth and create long-term value for its numerous investee companies. With an experienced management team and substantial financial resources, Novacap is well positioned to continue building world-class companies. For more information, please visit www.novacap.ca
