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Atris Incorporated is a business telecommunications
company delivering advanced telephony and Internet services
targeting small and mid-sized businesses throughout selected
multi-tenant buildings, as well as individual enterprise
solutions for larger businesses. Atris utilizes the latest
in Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) technology to deliver state of the
art bundled voice and data communications services to its
customers.
The service offers customers monthly service packages
that provide them with large enterprise PBX functionality,
including enhanced features and capabilities, without having
to incur large capital expense. The
unique capabilities of our VoIP system also allow our customers
to reduce their operating telecommunications costs in local
calling, long distance, Internet, email and voice mail,
and cabling.
Atris started operating its unique system in two multi-tenant
buildings in downtown Philadelphia in early 2003. Atris
has since expanded into the additional markets of New York
City and Denver with several more multi-tenant buildings
scheduled for installation in the summer and fall of 2004.
Atris’s server based system runs VoIP software developed
by Sphere Communications, a Chicago based company and a
leader in VoIP/PBX solutions with over 250,000 users on
its’ worldwide VoIP PBX systems. The systems are
redundant and extremely reliable. We
have not experienced an outage of any kind during the first
12 months of operation.
Atris was founded by Jud Berkowitz, whose company, NTG
Telecommunications, Inc., has been selling and supporting
business telecommunications systems for over 20 years (www.ntgtelecom.com
). Jud and the Atris technology team have developed a unique
application of the Sphere system for multi-tenant buildings
(patent pending), which affords small to mid-sized companies
access to technology not otherwise available to them at
similar costs. Atris Incorporated was spun out of NTG Telecommunications
to take this exciting new opportunity to market.
In June of 2004, Atris raised $2.2 million in a private
placement transaction that provided Atris not only with
the required “go to market” funding, but also
four seasoned telecom executives to help manage the business.
These investors/managers have the roles of VP Finance,
VP Sales and Marketing, VP Operations and General Counsel
and have personally invested over seventy percent of the
new capital. Combined, they have more than 50 years of
telecommunications experience across the wired, wireless,
cable and CLEC business sectors. The company is now well
positioned to take advantage of the growth of Voice over
IP services in the coming years. |
