Covad Business Awards

At Covad, we know true success comes when we help our customers win. This core belief is what drives our broadband and Internet telephone product innovation. Though we're pleased to receive business awards for our work, delivering real customer value is what makes us most proud.

Internet Telephony Product of the Year Covad ClearEdge Integrated Access Named 2006
Product of the Year by INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine

Covad ClearEdge Integrated Access, which combines voice and data over a high-speed voice-optimized broadband line, is an excellent choice for customers who wish to leverage their investment in their existing telephone system while dramatically reducing costs. Covad's latest enhancement to Covad Integrated Access enables businesses to stay in contact with their customers even through events such as power outages or PBX system failures by redirecting their calls to alternate numbers in unaffected locations. The addition of this new business continuity feature in response to the growing demand of small businesses is just one of the reasons why Internet Telephony chose Covad ClearEdge Integrated Access to receive its prestigious Product of the Year Award.

Past Awards

Covad's Line-Powered Voice Service Named Product of the Year by Internet Telephony

To give the power and savings of voice plus high-speed DSL without any hassle; more specifically, without having to buy new equipment or worry that a power outage means your telephone service is out, too.

This was the challenge that drove Covad to create an industry first: line-powered voice-based residential phone service. With this service, which is now being sold through Earthlink, customers use their existing analog phone equipment and in-house jacks. As with traditional voice service supplied by the local telephone company, the line is powered from the central office (CO), so a power failure will not disrupt service.

This is what we call customer-focused innovation. And it's what Internet Telephony magazine named product of the year.

Covad Voice Optimized Access Wins TMC Labs 2005 Innovation Award

Before Voice Optimized Access, VoIP users industry wide lacked the ability to prioritize voice traffic over data traffic and dynamically adjust bandwidth according to real-time usage. Yet this is essential to deliver the smooth, continuous stream of sound that everyone expects from their office telephone. With Covad's broadband, voice optimized access, customers benefit from increased efficiency on the network and better voice quality. TMC Labs was impressed enough to award Covad's Voice Optimized Access its 2005 Innovation Award.

VARBusiness Names Covad vPBX Midmarket Product of the Year

According to VARBusiness publisher Robert C. DeMarzo, "Our readers tell us that the middle market is one of the fastest-growing IT categories today, and Covad VoIP vPBX is the one that best meets that segment's needs."

VARBusiness provides strategic insight to technology integrators, and they solicited input from information technology (IT) vendors and solution providers to determine which products and services were best for mid-market customers-companies with 100 to 999 employees. Entries were considered by VARBusiness editors, who selected just 100 of the more than 400 nominated products.

Covad Wins Three Internet Telephony Magazine Awards

Readers of Internet Telephony magazine, along with its editorial staff and executives associated with the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) have selected Covad for three key awards: Best Hosted VoIP Provider, Best SMB Provider, and Top 100 VoIP for 2005.

Awards like these are among the best indicators we have for measuring whether we're delivering real value for our customers.

Frost & Sullivan 2005 Market Leadership Award

For the second year in a row, Covad has won the Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award.

Each year Frost & Sullivan presents its Market Leadership Award to a company that has displayed excellence in all areas of market leadership, including identification of market challenges, drivers, and restraints, as well as strategy development and methods of addressing these market dynamics.

Covad believes that the key to winning this award is listening to the market, which is synonymous with listening to its customers and remaining at the forefront of broadband innovation.