Business today making the move to IP communications are under increasing pressure to find the fastest, least disruptive way to attain advanced technologies.

To help businesses achieve this at a fraction of the cost and with no downtime or network disruptions, Ontario-based Phybridge (News - Alert)Inc. offers the UniPhyer.

The VoIP-enabler optimizes the network upgrade for voice, video and data convergence - ensuring five 9's reliability and offering what experts say is the 'best way' to deploy IP phones.

The UniPhyer not only makes it possible to have a separate physical connection for voice, but also utilizes existing infrastructure and allows customers to test and tweak their new solution so they can ensure complete satisfaction before actually rolling it out.

Of the many benefits offered by the UniPhyer including reduced costs, extended reach and back-up power, the ability to have high-quality voice is a key to future proofing any businesses network.

The UniPhyer addresses this need with dedicated throughput to ensure QoS and the ability to easily grow along with the businesses needs.

Chief among all the benefits of the UniPhyer however is the reduced network complexity it offers by separating the physical path for voice so network monitoring and management are less stressful and quality of service is achievable.

Successful implementations of the UniPhyer in the educational, financial and other vertical markets are proof of the solutions power.

Holy Cross Lutheran Church, for example, looked to Phybridge for the UniPhyer to upgrade the telephony system in their church and two adjacent school buildings. With the UniPhyer, the church was able to achieve this without having to take on the expenses and disruptions associated with changing the cabling and data switches for both buildings.

Also, Comstor (News - Alert)Singapore, a member of the Westcon Group of Companies, turned to Phybridge's UniPhyer to attain unified communications without having to worry about barriers like network and business disruptions or costly, intensive set-up and maintenance.

Hamilton, Ontario-based Mohawk College was also able to move their IP end points to the UniPhyer leveraging existing telephony wiring to enable the IP phones with PoE. Not only did this eliminate the complexities of managing a data network, but also eliminated all service issues.

Shaunna Kaminsky, Telecommunications Analyst for Mohawk College said that they had initially deployed IP phones on the data network and with many service issues but discovered the Phybridge UniPhyer and, 'the installation was slick, quick and professional.'

'There have been no service complaints and I continue to be impressed with the ease of additional Nortel (News - Alert)IP phone installations.'

This is an 'exciting and effective solution moving towards a VoIP environment,' Kaminsky said.

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Stefania Viscusi is an assignment editor for TMCnet, covering voice and Voice over IP technologies. She also oversees production of TMCnet's e-Newsletters in the areas of Internet telephony and speech technology. To read more of Stefania's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Stefania Viscusi