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The Rolls Royce of telephony is...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
wait for it, people...voip. Yes, Rolls Royce has signed on the dotted line for an IP replacement of it's current traditional phone system. Nortel is reportedly getting a cool $20 million to migrate the iconic company to voip over the next 12-16 months and then service the new system for 7 years.
While voice quality used to be an issue in the early days of voip internet phone systems, companies can now expect the same QoS and reliability found on legacy platforms. Nortel's Paul Kelly, president of EMEA, says voip platforms are "99.999 % reliable." Indeed, they'd have to be for Rolls Royce to join the voip crowd.
The new voice network will serve approximately 26,000 employees scattered around the globe in Canada, the US, France, Germany, the UK and Norway. Users will have access to the traditional features of voice, fax, and e-mail, as well as some of voip's inherent productivity boosters for mobile workers, like IM and virtual conferencing.
