SARASOTA, FL--(Marketwired - August 23, 2016) - Star2Star Communications, makers of the World's Leading Hybrid Cloud Communications Solution, today announced that the company's flagship StarSystem Unified Communications offering received a 2016 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.

The Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the best in business communications that facilitate voice, data and video. Star2Star's patented Hybrid Architecture combines an on-premise StarBox® Cloud Connection Manager with a suite of cloud-based services (hosted at redundant data centers) to create a complete, feature-rich, highly reliable communications system.

"This award confirms what we've been saying for ten years. Our Hybrid Architecture delivers better quality and higher reliability, while providing our customers with more features and functionality," said David Portnowitz, VP of Marketing at Star2Star.

Star2Star unifies customers' voice, video, fax, instant messaging and presence management into a single, easy-to-use system and currently serves over 300,000 business users at tens of thousands of locations across the US and Canada. The company has one of the highest long-term customer retention rates in the industry at 99.85% and has been recently recognized by numerous leading analysts.

About Star2Star:

Founded in 2006 in Sarasota, Florida, Star2Star Communications delivers the World's Most Scalable Cloud Communications Solution. Star2Star's award winning, patented Constellation™ Network overcomes the reliability and quality limitations of other communications technologies.

In the past five years, Star2Star was named to the Forbes Most Promising Companies list, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 three times, and the Inc. 500|5000 six times. Infonetics recognized Star2Star as one of 2016's Top 10 Hosted Business VoIP/UC Provider, and Gartner named Star2Star in their latest industry report, Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS).

Star2Star Communications solutions are sold through a diversified network of partners that includes distributors, master agents, managed service providers and certified installing dealers. Star2Star systems are used by hundreds of thousands of business users, including many large national chains with multi-location communications footprints.

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