Latest release of the call control manager brings better unified communications and mobility support, improved flexibility and scalability
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Dallas, TX, February 02, 2010 – Aastra, a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market, today unveiled significant enhancements to its MX-ONE™ call control manager for medium and large enterprises with its new release 4.0. As reducing enterprise costs and improving the workforce effectiveness remain high on the CIO agenda, the MX-ONE aims to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO). It also comes with a complete suite of unified communications (UC) solutions to improve efficiency and productivity in the workspace.
“With the transition from recession to recovery, Gartner's annual CIO survey in January 20101 indicated business expectations for IT call for greater productivity and continued cost-efficiencies. UC is key to supporting such imperatives. Medium and large businesses should be looking how their communication solutions can contribute towards these objectives and support a budget savvy adoption of unified communications for better collaboration inside the company as well as communication with customers,” commented Steve Blood, Research Vice President at Gartner.
To meet the customer’s specific requirements, the MX-ONE can be customized and complemented by Aastra’s comprehensive portfolio of UC solutions, ranging from multi-media contact center and unified messaging, to collaboration and conferencing. With an increasingly mobile workforce and environmental concerns encouraging teleworking, the MX-ONE can ensure the seamless integration of mobility with enterprise communications. Campus workers can benefit from highly scalable SIP DECT and, thanks to fixed mobile convergence (FMC), remote workers can enjoy a similar user experience on their mobile device as a desk phone with the Aastra Mobile Client. The combination of Aastra’s UC applications and true mobility solutions helps staff to be more productive and reactive to customer demands.
Furthermore, the MX-ONE can also allow customers better integration for their existing UC applications thanks to the introduction of industry standards such as CSTA V3 and XML to smoothly integrate with third party UC providers.
“Thanks to its R&D internal synergies, Aastra has significantly increased its innovation capabilities for products such as the MX-ONE resulting in significant improvements for both existing and new customers. New customers can benefit from strong UC and highly competitive enterprise communications solutions while existing customers can be assured of a unique migration strategy with investment protection and simpler and faster upgrades. The latest version of the MX-ONE is capable of delivering market-leading scalability, TCO and power savings as well as a comprehensive unified communications suite to meet such imperatives,” said Edin Hadzialic, Head of the Centre of Excellence for MX-ONE and FMC.
Flexibility and scalability are high on the agenda for this major release of the MX-ONE:
- Customers now have a choice of architecture with the MX-ONE, distributed or centralized, over one site or several sites spanning multiple countries. For better operation and maintenance, Aastra has also improved the management experience with an updated and user-friendly graphical interface to make the control of any system components and applications faster and more efficient.
- With improved redundancy features, the MX-ONE also delivers best in class scalability with a single server accommodating up to 15,000 users and 15 media gateways. Up to 124 servers can be combined on a single system, offering businesses the opportunity to scale up to 500,000 users on a single system. Two new IP desk phones and the expanded numbering plan are other features that come in the new version.
- A new modular Media Gateway ‘MX-ONE Lite’ combined with MX-ONE high-class networking capabilities introduces more flexibility for branch office scenarios and decreases the overall TCO for such deployments.
Additionally, Aastra is the first vendor to have its enterprise IP telephony/unified communications products certified with the HP ProCurve ONE Service zl Module in order to offer a comprehensive UC solution.
Aastra was keen with this new release to improve the competitiveness of the MX-ONE even further and to offer a lower TCO with more energy efficient components. This latest version of the MX-ONE meets both budget and environmental imperatives facing the CIOs of today. Customers can also benefit from lower communications costs with SIP trunking, as well as savings on mobile roaming cost with the Dynamic Least Cost Routing of the Aastra Mobile Client.
For more information on the Aastra MX-ONE please visit www.aastrausa.com or contact Aastra at 1.800.468.3266.
1 Source: Gartner, “leading in Times of Transition: the 2010 CIO Agenda”
About Aastra USA
Aastra USA Inc. is the US business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited, a company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops and delivers innovative communications products and applications for businesses. Aastra’s operations are truly global with more than 50 million installed lines around the world and a direct and indirect presence in more than 100 countries. Aastra USA is entirely dedicated to enterprise communications and offers IP telephony and Unified Communications solutions individually tailored to satisfy its customers’ requirements. These range from feature-rich call managers for small and medium businesses and highly scalable ones for large enterprises, integrated mobility, call center solutions to a wide selection of terminals. With a strong focus on open standards, Aastra USA enables enterprises to communicate and collaborate more efficiently. For additional information on Aastra, visit our website at www.aastrausa.com.
Aastra® is a registered trademark and MX-ONE™ is a trademark of Aastra Technologies Limited.
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