Optimum Lightpath Hosts Cloud-Based Voice

Optimum Lightpath announced the availability of its next-generation Optimum Lightpath Hosted Voice. The cloud-based phone service is designed for mid-market and large businesses and offers several new features, including capabilities to connect mobile workforces. It is based on flat-rate pricing, requires little or no upfront costs and runs on an all-fiber network.The service is sold as an add-on to Optimum Lightpath's Internet Voice Bundle. It includes additional Internet bandwidth to support phone calls and a range of phone minutes of use packages. The service also offers free calling to other Optimum Lightpath Hosted Voice customers and HD Voice. Features, enabled by Metaswitch's MetaSphere multimedia application server, include call processing, convergence, mobility and collaboration.