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fy2016 number of employees 800 website 8x8 . com 8x8 inc. is a united states communications technology company that provides voip telephony services . 8x8 services include cloud based voice call center video mobile and unified communications solutions for medium to enterprise sized businesses and distributed enterprise customers . some of 8x8 s services are offered under the brand packet8 . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit 8x8 was founded in 1987 by dr. chi shin wang and dr. y.w. sing formerly of weitek as integrated information technology inc. or iit . the name was changed in the early 1990s . 2 they began iit as a fabless vendor of semiconductor products for the math coprocessor and graphics chipset markets . 3 the company produced x87 floating point coprocessor for the 286 386 and 486 generations of microprocessors as well as graphics accelerator chips for the personal computer market during the late 1980s and early 1990s . in 1992 the company began shipping a lossless data compression product called xtradrive . in the early 1990s iit began producing chips software and other technologies for the videoconferencing market . the company changed its name to 8x8 and began marketing its own set top videoconferencing systems for consumers under the viatv brand . 8x8 went public on the nasdaq market in 1997 trading under the ticker symbol eght . 4 in january 1999 8x8 launched a family of voice over ip voip chips and software that were sold to ip phone ip pstn gateway and other manufacturers of voip equipment . 8x8 acquired two companies odisei 5 and u force 6 to acquire network server voip technologies and began selling an end to end voip services technology solution to service providers in 1999 . in 2002 the company relaunched itself as a voip service provider under the packet8 brand . in 2003 it launched its first consumer videophone services on the packet8 network . in 2004 the company became the first voip service provider to offer replacement e 911 services to its subscribers . 7 it also launched a suite of business services called packet8 virtual office . in july 2007 8x8 entered an agreement to accept the 200 000 customers who abruptly lost phone service when voip startup sunrocket was liquidated . at the time the washington post described packet8 as the third largest independent internet phone service provider with 181 000 customers . 8 on 25 july 2002 8x8 announced that its application for listing on the nasdaq smallcap market had been approved . 8x8 retained its ticker symbol of eght and began trading on the nasdaq smallcap market on friday 26 july 2002 . on september 1 2004 the company began selling their product at fry s stores . 8x8 finished a series of tv commercials featuring san francisco 49ers players . 9 in 2009 8x8 added unified communications to their portfolio and a contact center solution and mobile solutions in 2011 . 8x8 has been awarded 101 patents 10 related to semiconductors computer architecture video processing algorithms videophones and communications technologies and security . in october 2014 8x8 reported a customer base of more than 40 434 businesses . 11 1 may 2010 8x8 acquired central host a california based managed hosting company and began offering cloud based hosting services . 12 on 20 june 2011 8x8 announced the acquisition of zerigo a colorado based cloud services company and began offering cloud servers and managed dns services . 13 on 15 september 2011 8x8 acquired contactual a leading hosted contact center company . in 2013 8x8 acquired voicenet a united kingdom based cloud services company and expanded its offering of the 8x8 portfolio of cloud communications services in the uk . 14 in may 2015 8x8 acquired privately held u.k. based dxi ltd. a cloud based contact center solutions vendor . in june 2015 8x8 acquired assets of the privately held delray beach fla. based quality software corp. qsc as well as two affiliated companies . 15 in august 2014 gartner positioned 8x8 in the leaders quadrant of its magic quadrant for ucaas unified communications as a service for the third consecutive year . 16 in may 2015 infonetics research named 8x8 as the 1 cloud unified communications provider in its 2015 cloud uc north american service provider scorecard . 17 products edit 8x8 virtual office business voip phone service that comes with voicemail auto attendant conference bridge outlook integration . 8x8 virtual office pro unified communications bundle that includes business voip phone service internet faxing call recording and web conferencing 8x8 virtual office enterprise business voip phone service for companies with over 1 000 extensions 8x8 virtual office mobile extends virtual office phone service to ios and android devices 8x8 virtual meeting web conferencing with video call recording and content sharing 8x8 virtual contact center hosted call center references edit hart kim 19 july 2007 . for sunrocket customers sounds of silence . the washington post . retrieved 23 august 2015 . daisy chan cnn money best new gadgets 1 december 2004 mcclean bill . profiles 1997 a worldwide survey of ic manufacturers and suppliers 1 retrieved 30 july 2008 form 10 k . united states securities and exchange commission . 2007 . retrieved 21 january 2009 . 8x8 completes acquisition of ip telephony software developer . business wire . 25 may 1999 . retrieved 21 january 2009 . netergy networks to acquire uforce . securities exchange commission . 23 may 2000 . retrieved 21 january 2009 . 8x8 signs agreement with tcs to provide e911 capabilities for all packet8 subscribers press release . pr newswire . 11 october 2005 . retrieved 21 january 2008 . hart kim 19 july 2007 . for sunrocket customers sounds of silence . the washington post . retrieved 23 august 2015 . face to face voip coming soon ; 8x8 to offer videophones in bay area . 8x8 issued new conferencing and meeting patent by u.s. patent and trademark office press release . 8x8 inc. reports second quarter fiscal 2015 financial results press release . october 22 2014 . 8x8 announces acquisition of central host inc. press release . globenewswire . 6 may 2010 . archived from the original on 11 june 2010 . retrieved 7 june 2010 . 8x8 acquires zerigo to broaden portfolio of cloud hosting services press release . globenewswire . 20 june 2011 . retrieved 20 june 2011 . 8x8 inc. completes acquisition of uk based voicenet solutions press release . december 2 2013 . 8x8 goes on acquisition spree with 170m war chest . magic quadrant for unified communications as a service north america with additional regional presence . top spot in ihs infonetics cloud unified communications scorecard goes to 8x8 for second straight year . external links edit official website v t e telecommunications history beacon broadcasting cable tv communications satellite computer network drums electrical telegraph fax heliographs hydraulic telegraph internet mass media 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