Cbeyond

Cbeyond

Industry	Telecommunications
Fate	Acquired by Birch Communications
Founder	James F. Geiger
Defunct	July 2014
Headquarters	320 Interstate North Parkway Atlanta, Georgia, US
Area served	14 Markets in the continental United States
Key people	James F. Geiger (Founder, Chairman, President & CEO)
Products	VOIP Services, Voice Services, Network Services, Hosted Services, Cloud Services, Mobile Services
Revenue	US$ 450 million (2010)
Number of employees	2,000 (2010)

Cbeyond, Inc. (formerly Cbeyond Communications) was a telecommunications and information technology company based in Atlanta, Georgia, until it was purchased by and became part of Birch Comm in July 2014. Founded in 1999 by Jim Geiger, Cbeyond, which developed the world's first 100% Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network, provided voice, data, mobile, and cloud services to over 60,000 small and medium-sized businesses in 14 markets across the domestic United States.

Cbeyond was founded in November 1999 as a provider of managed technology services to small and medium-sized businesses, and began serving the Atlanta area in 2001. In October of that year, Cbeyond opened a Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas branch, serving small and medium-sized businesses in the Metroplex. In 2002, the Denver, Colorado branch was opened, serving businesses in Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, and other locations in the Front Range Urban Corridor. In March 2004, Cbeyond's fourth market branch was opened in Houston, Texas.

On November 2, 2005, Cbeyond went public, opening at $12 a share. Also in 2005, Cbeyond added SIPconnect service (see below: Technology) to its service offerings, and opened its service branch in Chicago, Illinois. In the following year, 2006, Cbeyond launched its Mobile Services division, integrating BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) service to its small and medium-size business-oriented offerings, and opened its Los Angeles, California service branch.