-- Centralized deployments of both network-centric and telephony alerting
systems to significantly reduce support costs by providing an enterprise-
wide solution
-- A unified alerting system which eliminates the need to trigger and
manage alerts from multiple independent systems
-- The ability to contact thousands of geographically-dispersed personnel
in minutes
-- The ability to track alert receipt and recipient responses to aid in
personnel accountability
-- The capability to protect personnel data and ensure network security
"Customers expect, and indeed demand, an effective multimodal alerting
system capable of reliably reaching all personnel quickly wherever they're
located," said Guy Miasnik, AtHoc's president and CEO. "By partnering with
market leaders like DCC and creating an integrated solution, our customers
can leverage their internal networking and telephony infrastructure, and
from our Web-based alert management application, disseminate alerts
simultaneously through multiple channels to ensure a rapid response in
times of emergency. Such a solution can support the needs of even the
largest organizations by providing an enterprise-wide approach while
delivering alerts across all communication channels, including all personal
and mass communication channels, such as desktops, phones, sirens, speakers
and radios."
"As industry leaders in our respective fields, this partnership creates a
great opportunity to meet the critical communications needs of our
customers and provide a powerful integrated offering," said Scott Alfieri,
president of DCC. "We're excited about the AtHoc alliance and the benefits
it presents to the global market."
Within the DoD, AtHoc IWSAlerts is already deployed on all major networks
and has numerous requisite certifications, including DIACAP, NMCI, Army
Certificate of Networthiness and others. DCC's Communicator! NXT similarly
has a JITC-certified version and is an approved product for DoD
deployments.
The integration between AtHoc IWSAlerts and DCC Communicator! NXT is
facilitated using DCC's most recent open, standards-based API (Application
Programming Interface). DCC has joined AtHoc's Technology and
Interoperability Alliance Program, allowing the companies to build a
tightly-integrated offering.
The integration will ensure that when an emergency alert is triggered via
AtHoc IWSAlerts, recipients can receive audio-based telephony alerts,
leveraging their local telephony infrastructure. On activation, AtHoc
IWSAlerts sends the emergency message to DCC's Communicator! NXT, which in
turn delivers calls to recipients via land, mobile phone or other
communication devices as necessary. Users can acknowledge and respond to
the message by touchtone input. Responses are then relayed back to the
AtHoc IWSAlerts console, which consolidates responses from all delivery
devices and communication channels, allowing emergency operators to see who
has received the alerts and their responses.
About AtHoc
AtHoc is the pioneer and recognized leader in providing enterprise-class,
network-centric emergency notification systems to military, government and
commercial organizations for physical security, force protection and
personnel accountability. Millions of end users worldwide, in organizations
such as the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Hawaii State Civil
Defense, NASA, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Boeing,
PricewaterhouseCoopers and eBay, rely on AtHoc's unified management systems
for their emergency alerting and critical communication needs. AtHoc has
partnered with market leaders including Microsoft, Cisco, Harris, Siemens,
Avaya, Lockheed Martin, Unisys and others to bring these notification
solutions to the public and commercial markets.
For more information on AtHoc, please visit www.athoc.com.
About DCC
DCC (Dialogic Communications Corporation), a PlantCML company, is the
global leader in emergency notification technology. The company's on-site
and hosted solutions are used by hundreds of public and private
organizations every day, ensuring their communications readiness for
virtually any critical or routine situation. DCC, established in 1982, is
located in Franklin, TN (a suburb of Nashville).
To learn more about the company, visit www.dccusa.com.
Contact Information: Contact: Ivy Eckerman Spire Communications (540) 373-2963