Corporate Profile
C2 Global Technologies ("C2"), formerly known as Acceris Communications Inc., is a pioneer in developing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies.
C2 was founded in 1983 under the name MedCross Incorporated, which was changed to I-Link Incorporated in 1997, and to Acceris Communications Incorporated in 2003. In 1994 it operated as an ISP with a business model based equally on network access and value-added services. It soon identified VoIP as a more promising environment for enhanced service delivery and began designing and building an IP network with the strict latency and packet loss tolerances required for high quality voice transmission. The Company began offering services over a mixed IP and circuit switched network in 1997, and in 1999 launched the first true “switchless” IP network, in which all core operating functions were software driven.
Concurrent with its network development, the Company began offering a blend of innovative communications services that utilized the inherent cost advantages of its nationwide IP-based network. To compliment these enhanced services, the Company also developed an open API tool kit to allow developers to create their own solutions deliverable via a VoIP network at a fraction of the cost of traditional development.
Today, C2 is primarily focused on licensing its patents to carriers and equipment manufacturers and suppliers in the internet protocol (“IP”) telephony market. C2 has already successfully licensed its patents and technologies to significant customer organizations.
C2 Global Technologies also invests in technology-based enterprises. Its most recent investments are BuddyMedia.com, Knight's Bridge Capital Partners Internet Fund No. 1 GP LLC and Polaroid Corporation.
In February 2009 the Company established Counsel RB Capital LLC (“Counsel RB”). It specializes in the acquisition and disposition of distressed and surplus assets throughout the United States and Canada, including industrial machinery and equipment, real estate, inventories, accounts receivable and distressed debt. In addition to purchasing various types of assets, Counsel RB also arranges traditional asset disposition services such as on-site and webcast auctions, liquidations and negotiated sales. Counsel RB commenced operations in the second quarter of 2009.
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