TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Optivon, an innovative hosted telephony services provider, continues to expand its North American operations with the announcement that Sago Networks ( http://www.sagonet.com/ ) has entered into a multi-year excusive outsourcing agreement.

Optivon will provide hosted telephony services to Sago, including IP Trunking, IP Telephony -- residential and business, IP Centrex/PBX Hosting, CTI Informal Call Center, Unified Communications, local and long distance telephone service, billing services, backroom operations services, as well as other hosted applications that Optivon will from time to time add to the Optivon suite of services. Sago Networks will bundle the Optivon Services with other Sago Networks services and will be delivering the IP based voice services over its private microwave and fiber circuits to the customer premises. In so doing, it will not be using the public Internet to access the customers and will be able to guarantee optimal quality of service.

"Quality of service is our foremost concern," said Miller Cooper, President of Sago Networks. "Therefore, after an extensive national evaluation process we selected to team up with Optivon to launch our voice services.

"We will offer the new VoIP services to our existing broadband access customers, who have been asking us for some time now to offer voice services in addition to the data services we currently provide," said Cooper. "It will be an easy and cost effective add-on service where both our customers and we benefit."

Luis Romero, Optivon's President, added that "Optivon allows Sago Networks to provide advanced telecommunications services to its subscribers without any hassles or capital investment and start-up expenses in obtaining softswitches, gateways, applications, specialized personnel, and deploying a national telephone network interconnection. By outsourcing with Optivon, Sago Networks can take immediate advantage of market opportunities."

Since the introduction of their VoIP services, Optivon has had ample experience in supporting from the largest telephone companies in the world to the smallest Internet Telephone Service providers. Typical installations by Optivon's carrier/service providers range from single-phone residential VoIP service to hundreds of IP Centrex lines in a multiple location environment. Optivon provides its services in the USA exclusively through local exchange carriers, Internet Service Providers, broadband radio access service providers and other Internet and telecommunications service providers.

About Optivon, Inc.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Optivon provides comprehensive telecommunications offerings that combine IP-enabled services and on-demand professional call agents to solve business needs. Optivon's suite of services include IP Telephony, IP Centrex, IP Trunking, Unified Communications, local numbers, 800 numbers, origination and termination services and other hosted applications. Optivon provides its hosted services exclusively through telecommunications and Internet service providers. Visit http://www.optivon.com/ or call toll-free 1-866-896-4526 for more information.

About Sago Networks

Sago Networks was founded as an alternative to the telephone and cable company monopolies and inefficient Internet companies. Its mission is to be a one-stop shop for all of its customers' bandwidth and custom telecommunications needs. The company also believes in providing a laser-like focus on customer service and from its headquarters in the Tampa Bay area and satellite offices in Miami and Atlanta, has implemented rapidly deployable, high-speed wireless networks and maintains one of the largest bandwidth data centers in the country.

CONTACT: Lissette M. Gonzalez, 787-751-1500, or lissette@hufstetler.com,
of Hufstetler & Gonzalez, Inc. for Optivon

Web site: http://www.sagonet.com/
http://www.optivon.com/