CommuniGate Systems Keeps Businesses as Usual During Volcanic Chaos

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor

CommuniGate Systems, a provider of carrier-grade unified communications, or UC, for business users, announced that its UC technology ensured business continuity among thousands of European businesses in the wake of the Icelandic volcano eruption.

As travel systems came to a halt across Europe post volcanic eruption, CommuniGate Systems' (News - Alert) products helped thousands of European businesses remain productive and effective, the company said.

The advanced IP based Unified Communication solutions from the company ensured that business process remained unaffected even when key staff found themselves stranded away from the office or were unable to make customer meetings.

CommuniGate Systems' UC solutions provide business customers with mobile messaging, team collaboration, High Definition Voice VoIP, video telephony and spontaneous conference calls, in even the most remote locations, the company said.  The technology is being used by over 12,000 businesses worldwide.

The Unified Communications (News - Alert) platform provides the flexibility, performance, and scalability with benchmark proven architecture remaining unchallenged in the industry, according to company officials.

CommuniGate Systems' technology powers OEM partner products ranging from embedded real time systems to powerful unified messaging platforms at top tier global network operators.

The open development environment's simple APIs deliver extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999 percent uptime for the most demanding application environments, the company claims.

"Today, virtually all businesses rely on real-time communication to keep their business moving," Scott Stonham, vice president Marketing, CommuniGate Systems, said. "With the chaos spawned by the ash of Eiyafiatdaiokudl, we are hearing many stories from our customers about employees making sales meetings from train stations, finalizing contracts in airports and even submitting proposals on ferries."

In 2009, CommuniGate Systems was recognized as a Top Player in Messaging Platforms for Hosted E-Mail Providers by the Radicati Group in its 2009 Radicati Market Quadrant report, TMCnet reported.

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