AAC News Cisco Systems publishes a Partner Success Story about AAC's PhoneTop AMBER Alerts product. March 5th, 2004 VIENNA, Virg – AAC Inc., Vienna, Virg – AAC Inc., a leading provider of network engineering, convergence technologies, information assurance and IP Communications applications solutions, today announced that Cisco Systems has published a Partner Success Story about AAC’s PhoneTop AMBER Alerts. The Cisco partner success story covers the implementation of AAC’s PhoneTop AMBER Alerts XML product for the Town of Herndon, Virginia. This product supplies audible and visual missing children alerts to the Cisco IP Phones throughout the town government offices. When Bill Ashton, director of IT for the Town of Herndon, Virginia, was looking for a way to clear up what he calls “a quagmire of PBX phones and voice mails,” he turned to Cisco Systems®, and the company provided him a list of certified vendors. “Only AAC came in and talked about their applications for the IP telephony solution and refined my vision of what we could do with this system,” Ashton says. “Other firms came in and sold me on the IP telephony features—cost savings, flexibility, scalability—all of which I needed. AAC presented all of those things but also showed how they could help me solve real business problems and better serve my customers¾the employees and citizens of Herndon. We were fortunate that we were able to access AAC through an existing IT Consulting Services and Expert Assistance contract.” AAC showed Ashton its PhoneTop Amber Alerts program. “I recognized it as a perfect fit for us to use the phones as real tools,” he says. Whenever police authorities issue an Amber Alert for a missing child, CodeAmber.org receives the alert notification directly from law enforcement or their first tier media partners (ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX and NBC) in reciprocal information exchange. CodeAmber pushes the Amber Alerts as news flashes across thousands of Websites. The html version of the complete article may be found online at: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/partners/success_stories/2004/pss_03-05.html Alternatively, the Adobe Acrobat version of the article is provided at: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/partners/success_stories/ss_aac_herndon_030504.pdf The Adobe Acrobat version is also provided at AAC’s PhoneTop site at: ftp://209.116.156.200/PhoneTopAttachments/TownofHerndonPartnerSuccessStory2004-03-05.pdf PhoneTop Alerts is an award winning product which allows sending various types of alerts such as Emergency alerts (EAS) or missing child alerts (AMBER) to Cisco IP Phones. Click here to find more about PhoneTop Alerts Home | Company | Products | Resellers | FAQs | News | Partners | Contact © 2002 - 2004 PhoneTop by AAC Inc. All Rights Reserved.