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October 27, 2014
LINN Energy Taps AudioCodes for Lync, SBAs
 By
Paula Bernier,
Executive Editor, TMC
LINN Energy, a top 15 publicly traded energy production company, is among the latest companies in its sector to embrace
Microsoft (News  - Alert) Lync—an enterprise unified communications platform with a single experience for IM, presence, video, and voice. The organization called on AudioCodes (News - Alert) to secure, support, and get this implementation up and running.
“Lync is on a tear, doing very well in the energy sector,” says Alan D. Percy, senior director of strategic marketing in North America for AudioCodes, adding that Shell and many of the other top-tier companies in the space also use Lync. “Part of the reason it’s doing so well is because of the enhanced survivability capabilities Microsoft and AudioCodes have delivered.”
Percy is referring here to the AudioCodes Mediant 1000B survivable branch appliances, which LINN Energy is employing and should soon have operational for its 45 branches. The AudioCodes SBAs allowed the company to implement survivability and enhanced network security without deploying additional servers.
Mario Martinez, LINN Energy network engineering manager, explains that survivability was an important requirement for the company, noting it needs to be able to access emergency services at all times, so is using an analog backup – facilitated by the SBAs – in case the primary systems go down...Read More
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