LOS ANGELES, US: XCast Labs, global provider of SaaS digital voice and video solutions, has introduced version 3.0 of its highly-functional Digital Voice & Video (DV&V) platform, a suite of fully-hosted business and consumer communications products and services.

“Unlike some other voice-over-IP (VoIP) providers who are struggling to stay afloat, XCast Labs truly stands alone in regard to its financial stability, service quality, support, functionality and cost,” said XCast Labs co-founder and CEO, Cliff Rees.

“What makes XCast unique, is that our engineering team’s extensive experience in both IP and traditional telecom has empowered us to develop a patented technology that delivers a wide variety of fully integrated, reliable and scalable services at a much lower cost than our competition. We designed and developed every aspect of our core technology in-house, which can be used for first-line replacement service for residential and small office customers, as well as for the most feature-rich IP-PBX and SIP Trunking services for small and medium businesses (SMBs),” he said.

To-date, XCast Labs is working with several well-known enterprises, as well as broadband and cable operators.

Blended multimedia services are quickly becoming a key way to stand out in the hotly contested broadband market, particularly when those services include video,” said Alan Breznick, senior analyst of Heavy Reading, a New York-based market research group. “Any technology that enables cable operators, telcos, and other service providers to add video telephony, video conferencing, and other video services to their voice offerings deserves careful consideration.”

XCast Labs DV&V -  features & functionality

* Enhanced caller ID, 3-way calling, call waiting, do-not-disturb, call forwarding, and call blocking
* Integrated unified communications, including find me/follow-me, voicemail, video mail and faxes delivered to email; voicemail alerts via SMS; voicemail via RSS feed
* Local number portability, E911 and CALEA compliant
* Online Integrated Back Office (IBO) for all order entry, provisioning, reporting and customer support
* Branded, online Voice Control Panel (VCP) for end-user account management
* Plug-and-play videophone and compatible video Softphone (VSP)
* Phone numbers available from more than 10,000 US cities plus over 60 countries
* Toll-free and IP-Fax services
* Full-featured IP-PBX including supervised and blind call transfer, call park/pickup, intercom, hunt groups, automatic call distribution (ACD), unlimited secure conference bridges, web-based attendant console
* SIP Trunking for business customers with up to 5,000 lines