Three Australian universities have announced substantial, multi-million dollar network upgrades in as many days, as the higher education sector moves to come up to speed with campus users.
Hotel chain Crowne Plaza has in the past several months completed the implementation of a converged voice and data network at its new Hunter Valley facility.
Two New Zealand government agencies have signed contracts to use the new Government Shared Network (GSN), the first of five expected to migrate their networks to the service towards the end of the year.
Nine Victorian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges are in varying stages of migrating to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony, the project's networking vendor Cisco revealed today.
Western Australia's Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) has inked a half a million dollar contract with network solutions provider 3D Networks as the agency looks to develop its telephony infrastructure over the next few years.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
Enterprises have started to get past the hype and critically look at whether IP telephony works for them, according to one analyst.
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Australian IP telephony hardware revenue is set to hit AU$679.33 million by 2006, with up to 40 per cent of existing equipment replaced by hardware that includes IP telephony capability, according to IDC.
It's been promised for a while, but IP telephony -- using your network to carry your voice calls - appears to have finally become a sensible alternative for company communications.
VoIP delivers cost-savings and improved control over customer support calls for Australian office-products supplier, Corporate Express.
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By being very easy to configure and manage, the 3CX Phone System for Windows scores well on functionality and is compatible with most SIP handsets, gateways and services. However scalability could be an issue for larger organisations.
An impressive set-up well worth the consideration for any small office looking to bring their telephony systems into the 21st century.
While being a leader in most areas of IP telephony, Avaya have previously been lacking in support for the smaller end of the market. That's set to change, however, thanks to the introduction of the new Avaya IP Office, a VoIP solution which caters from as little as two users right through to 360 users per server.
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