AUDC vs VZ

AudioCodes Ltd.

AudioCodes Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides advanced communications software, products, and productivity solutions for the digital workplace. It offers solutions, products, and applications for enterprise unified communications environments, work-from-home agents and contact centers, voice and telephony AI-based applications, and service provider business services. The company's products include IP phones and meeting room solutions, session border controllers (SBC), media gateways, multi-service business routers and universal customer premises equipment, VoIP network routing solutions, media servers, value added applications, life cycle management solutions, and professional services, as well as survivable branch appliances and CCE; device manager; CloudBond 365, an adaptable solution; and User Management Pack 365, a user lifecycle and identity management application. It also provides management solutions, such as voice network management solution, the One Voice Operations Center, call routing and policy management tool, and AudioCodes Routing Manager. In addition, the company offers AudioCodes Live for Microsoft Teams, a portfolio of managed services that removes complexity from the integration of Teams collaboration, unified communications, and enterprise telephony; and VoiceAI Connect Cloud Edition, a cloud-based service enabling the bot development ecosystem to develop an array of voice-bot use cases via trials and proof of concept projects, as well as provides a range of value-added voice applications comprising SmartTAP, Voca, VoiceAI Connect, Meeting Insights, and management application services. It primarily markets and sells its products through a direct sales force and sales representatives to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators and distributors, and network equipment providers in the telecommunication and networking industries. The company primarily operates in the Americas, Europe, the Far East, and Israel. AudioCodes Ltd. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Lod, Israel.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc. offers communications, technology, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities worldwide. Its Consumer segment provides postpaid and prepaid service plans; internet access on notebook computers and tablets; wireless equipment, including smartphones and other handsets; and wireless-enabled internet devices, such as tablets, and other wireless-enabled connected devices, such as smart watches. It also provides residential fixed connectivity solutions, including internet, video, and voice services; and sells network access to mobile virtual network operators. As of December 31, 2020, it had approximately 94 million wireless retail connections, 7 million broadband connections, and 4 million Fios video connections. The company's Business segment provides network connectivity products, including private networking, private cloud connectivity, virtual and software defined networking, and internet access services; and internet protocol-based voice and video services, unified communications and collaboration tools, and customer contact center solutions. This segment also offers a suite of management and data security services; domestic and global voice and data solutions, including voice calling, messaging services, conferencing, contact center solutions, and private line and data access networks; customer premises equipment; installation, maintenance, and site services; and Internet of Things products and services. As of December 31, 2020, it had approximately 27 million wireless retail postpaid connections and 482 thousand broadband connections. Verizon Communications Inc. has a strategic partnership with Mastercard Incorporated. The company was formerly known as Bell Atlantic Corporation and changed its name to Verizon Communications Inc. in June 2000. Verizon Communications Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, New York.