TMCnet Feature

ADTRAN (News - Alert) today announced that it has garnered new business for its NetVanta 7100 unified communications platform. Pro-Care Home Health is using the solution across its five office locations in nine west central Kentucky countries.

The customer was looking for a communication system that enabled it to do scheduling from a centralized intake location, and the NetVanta 7100 fit the bill. The NetVanta 7100 allows Pro-Care Home Health to provide multiple data and voice functions from a single platform; do scheduling more efficiently; reduce interoffice communication costs by 50 percent; allow employees to transfer their phone numbers to any remote location; and utilize web-based IT administration tools for performance and management tasks.

Barry Derrick, ADTRAN product marketing manager, tells TMCnet that the Pro-Care deal highlights how the NetVanta 7100 can allow three- or four-digit dialing between nine sites.  NetVanta 7100, which can support up to 100 endpoints in one box, also does automatic call distribution and offers find me/follow me functionality for cell phones, for which it can do simultaneous or sequential rings, Derrick adds. He says that the NetVanta 7100 has been very successful for ADTRAN, particularly for multi-site deployments.

At ITEXPO (News - Alert) in Miami this week, exhibitor ADTRAN is highlighting its three strengths, which include cloud connectivity (for which Derrick says ADTRAN offers high performance, secure and reliable solutions), enterprise communications and virtual mobility (for which Derrick notes ADTRAN delivers complete end-to-end freedom across the enterprise via a WLAN solution than can centrally manage the global network from a single location).

ADTRAN recently got into the WLAN space via its Bluesocket (News - Alert) acquisition. The company now offers a solution that can enable enterprises with separate wireless and wireline networks to integrate those dual networks into a single, seamless network that can serve any endpoint virtually anywhere. That means wired ports now can have the same policy as those coming in via wireless.

The Bluesocket solution leverages virtualization to put control of the wireless network into the data center, either as an appliance or as software running on a VMware server. Placing WLAN control in the data center allows for unprecedented scalability. That’s important in light of the explosion in wireless endpoints and the fact that wireless access has become a must-have not just a nice-to-have capability, meaning that more organizations are now deploying larger numbers of access points. Controlling WLAN networks from servers at the data center also significantly reduces power requirements.

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