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In an effort to branch into the Latin America region, Integrated Lens Technology (ILT) a provider and ophthalmic brands, solutions and services, has awarded TelOnline (News - Alert) Corp., with a contract to provide ILT with an IP telephony solution that will take its business phone systems as well as unified communications solutions to other branches. These other branches are located in Miami, Costa Rica, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and 14 nations in Latin America.

The solution being deployed by TelOnline also comes with Switchvox SMB AA305 and Cisco (News - Alert) SPA504G IP phones. The Cisco one is with a four-line desktop IP phone. It also comes with a 128 X 64 monochrome LCD backlight display as also dual switched Ethernet ports. This is a wideband HD audio one with a full-duplex speaker. It comes with cutting edge acoustic echo cancellation for unparalleled voice clarity as well as enhanced speaker quality.

Switchvox (News - Alert) is based on the internationally preferred open source communications software called Asterisk. With this at its core, Switchvox is in a position to give out a set of features that competes with the most expensive of unified communications solutions yet be economical to SMEs that can afford it. It gives an average of cost-based savings of up to 60 to 80 per cent over comparable VoIP business phone systems.

“ILT chose Switchvox because it was the best fit for the size and needs of the organization,” Abelardo Alvarez, controller, said. “We needed a solution that would be easy to set up, configure and be scalable. The intuitive point-and-click interface allow us to manage the “who, what, where, and when” of our business. This solution allows us to easily add new users and office locations as our business expand in multiple countries.”

Switchvox SMB AA305 has been designed with medium-size businesses in mind. These are type of companies that would like an economical yet high performance, IP PBX (News - Alert) that comes with all the necessary features. The Switchvox SMB AA305 can support as many as 45 concurrent calls as well as 150 users.

Juan Carlos Castañeda, TelOnline’s president, said, “We are excited to implement the right telephony solution for ILT. ILT needed a scalable solution that could grow to a larger system with minimal associated cost and network changes, as they continue to expand their business.”