German IT Consultancy Deploys Quintum’s Tenor VoIP Switches with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
Unified Communications Boosts Productivity and Saves Thousands in Telecommunications Expenses
EATONTOWN, NJ (April 21st, 2008)
Quintum Technologies, a leading innovator in VoIP technologies, and a subsidiary of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. [NYSE: NWK], today announced that Plan B, a German consultancy, successfully deployed Microsoft® Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 and integrated it into their existing voice network using Quintum’s Tenor BX VoIP MultiPath Switches. The Tenor BX supports ISDN BRI lines, commonly found in Germany.
Plan B chose to deploy Microsoft’s unified communications (UC) solution within the organization, starting with the consultants, the most mobile employees, while minimizing the impact on the rest of the organization. Plan B deployed a state-of-the-art communications network with Microsoft Communicator and Microsoft Outlook running on the consultants’ individual laptops and PDAs. Microsoft OCS 2007 and Microsoft Exchange run on servers in the company’s main office, and a Quintum BX Tenor gateway sits between the servers and the company’s PBX. Consultants use either Bluetooth headsets, USB connected headsets or the PC’s built-in microphone and speakers, with Communicator as the VoIP client. The Tenor allows voice traffic to move freely among the company’s LAN and its PBX to communicate with other employees, as well as the public switched telephone network (PSTN) for outside calls. Voice traffic can also move between the company’s LAN and the Internet via its router.
“Deploying Tenors with Microsoft OCS enabled our consultants to answer their office phones from anywhere in the world,” stated Alan Dutton, head of Plan-B’s unified communications practice. “In addition, it lets everyone see who is available, and provides a least cost routing solution, which has saved us thousands in telecommunications costs. It truly gave us a unified communications network.”
“Plan B’s consultants faced many challenges with their communications network,” said Chuck Rutledge, Vice President of Marketing for Quintum. “Tenors helped them easily bridge the gap between the PSTN, Microsoft OCS 2007, and the multiple communications devices that the consultants rely on, while also improving productivity.”
Quintum, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, worked closely with Microsoft on the UC initiative, by addressing several potential complications to OCS2007 deployments. Quintum developed its Unified Communications Proxy, designed to enable the Tenor gateways to provide “Any to Any” connectivity between Microsoft OCS environments and both legacy TDM voice equipment and standard SIP VoIP equipment.
Quintum also designed a customized Microsoft Configuration Wizard to simply the configuration process, and developed a Total Care Package featuring a ‘One Price/One Year’ service offering.
For more information on Quintum’s Microsoft initiative, please go to: Quintum Microsite .
About Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET) provides network and VoIP solutions to enterprises and government agencies that seek to reduce the cost to
deploy next generation unified and secure communications applications. For a quarter of a century, NET has delivered solutions for multi-service networks
requiring high degrees of versatility, security and performance. Today, the company’s broad family of products enable interoperability and integration with
existing networks for migration to secure IP-based communications.
Broadening NET’s voice solutions, Quintum Technologies, now a part of NET, is a VoIP innovator whose applications bring the reliability and clarity of
public telephone networks to Internet telephony and unified communications. NET is headquartered in Fremont, CA and has 14 offices worldwide including the
US, the UK, France, the Middle East, China, Japan, Australia, and Latin America. The company sells its solutions through a direct sales force and an
international network of resellers and distributors. For more information, visit http://www.quintum.com.
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