A lot of corporations are facing the IP transformation challenge. People are using different ways to communicate with each other, from voice, e-mail, instant messaging or videoconference, all using the IP network. They are more connected now than ever, wishing to reach the ubiquity promised by the Fixed to Mobile convergence.
To face this new paradigm, Aastra’s response is a wide portfolio of IP telephony solutions, based on full IP communication servers or hybrid PBX platforms to enable our customers to handle the IP transformation of their business at their pace.
But more than IP voice switching platforms, Aastra is providing a comprehensive suite of unified applications, multimedia terminals and mobility solutions enabling the enterprises to benefit from the productivity gains of the convergence.
For Aastra, the real stake of the IP transformation is not just a change of technology. Moving to Telephony over IP implies the possibility to be more standardized and open and thereby benefit from more flexible architectures, more possibilities to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and a greater protection of the investments with more scalable and evolving solutions.
Aastra has invested for many years in a huge R&D effort to promote the OPEN IP TELEPHONY concept, which comprises solutions more and more independent from the hardware and relying on open standards such as the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
Aastra believes that SIP will definitely be an economic catalyst of the migration towards Telephony over IP, facilitating the decision of end-users to change their analogue and digital terminals to SIP terminals and also the move from TDM carrier trunks to SIP trunks.
But more than that, SIP will enable multimedia applications to easily communicate with each other, choosing the most appropriate media according to the presence status of the users.
As convergence is leading to a unified IP infrastructure which is increasing every day, the need for reliable solutions and evolving solutions is a key point to consider for CIOs when building their Information System. Aastra provides resilient and scalable solutions, from 4 to 150000 users, taking into account certain problematic issues such as business continuity planning with fall-back solutions or secure communications using encryption mechanisms.
Aastra is also eager to accompany its customers during this IP transformation by providing evergreen solutions and a full collection of professional services to help migrating the current telephony network into an ‘intelligent network’ dealing with unified communications that encompass all the spheres of the corporation activities and help increase the efficiency of its business..
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