Cygnal Technologies and OnX Enterprise Solutions Ltd. announced a strategic relationship as system integrators of unified communications solutions developed by Microsoft’s (News - Alert) and Nortel’s Innovative Communications Alliance.

 

These unified communications solutions offer customers choices as to how their communications and collaboration software is delivered, managed, and maintained. Microsoft said its solutions form a bridge between telephony and computing to deliver real time messaging, voice and conferencing to the desktop environment.

 

“Microsoft is pleased to be working with Cygnal Technologies and OnX Enterprise Solutions to deliver a streamlined communications experience to our customers,” said Mandeep Bhullar, manager of Microsoft Canada’s unified communications channel development division, in a statement.

 

OnX Enterprise said that, as Microsoft certified gold partner, it has been providing Microsoft solutions to Canada's leading companies for more than 10 years, and is experienced in deploying enterprise-wide IP solutions.

 

“Together, Cygnal and OnX bring over 30 years experience in voice and data network design and deployment to our enterprise customers,” said Ed Vos, President of OnX Enterprise, in a statement.

 

Jos Wintermans, Chairman and CEO of Cygnal Technologies, added: “Much like the partnership between Microsoft and Nortel (News - Alert), the Cygnal/OnX relationship leverages our individual expertise to provide our clients with a breadth of experience across the UC platform that would be difficult, if not impossible, to replicate in a single organization.”

 

Mentioning that Cygnal Technologies was named Nortel’s Convergence partner of the year again in 2006, Vos said Cygnal Technologies is positioned to direct migration of enterprise voice networks to the Unified Communications (News - Alert) platform. 

 

“This unparalleled experience will be invaluable to our customers as they venture into the communications arena,” Vos said.

 

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