NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 11/03/15 -- Fusion (NASDAQ: FSNN), a leading cloud services provider, announced today that a major global information technology company delivering communications systems, networking hardware and collaboration tools worldwide has selected Fusion's advanced, cloud-based communications solution to help support the IT leader's network emergency response command centers and emergency vehicles in the United States and internationally, including locations in China, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
The IT company's emergency response program is centered on swiftly and efficiently enabling emergency command centers to assist with tactical operations, rapidly facilitating communications between first responders in the most devastated environments. Fusion, in partnership with a leading international satellite services provider, was chosen to support the IT company's emergency response program with its leading edge cloud connectivity solution. Fusion will enable Internet-based satellite connectivity to rapidly-built emergency command centers, linking first responders at base as well as in the IT company's emergency vehicles deployed to the most stricken areas.
"Fusion is pleased to have our cloud-based connectivity solution chosen by this international IT leader to help facilitate communications in areas ravaged by fire, flood, tornado, hurricane or tsunami here in the United States or around the globe," said Russell P. Markman, Fusion's President of Business Services. "Like Fusion, this leading provider of IT and networking services understands that increasing the use of Internet-based solutions in the cloud dramatically improves response times, drives much-needed resource efficiencies in staffing, space and equipment, and enhances the ability to exchange information securely, improving communications and collaboration, particularly in times of emergency. We take pride in working with our partners to assist in delivering cloud-based connections that help local responders communicate when disaster strikes in the world's most desperately impacted regions."