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Sphere Communications and Quintum Technologies Alliance Delivers Certified Survivable Remote Office SolutionLINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. & EATONTOWN, N.J. --(Business Wire)-- Sphere Communications and Quintum Technologies announced today that the companies have certified the interoperability of Sphere's award-winning Sphericall IP PBX application with Quintum Technologies' VoIP gateways. The combination provides a powerful set of options for enterprises to assure they have reliable communications across all office locations. "For any business that believes communications services across the enterprise are mission critical, even at the smallest remote location, this is the solution for them," says Todd Landry, SVP of Sphere Communications. "As businesses look to deploy unified communications they can now ensure consistent operations under a variety of scenarios, and can accomplish it in a cost-effective manner with the Sphere and Quintum solution." Sphere's award-winning and high-certified unified communications and IP PBX software is an open system that utilizes SIP technology to work with industry leading telephony device manufacturers such as Quintum Technologies. Quintum's Tenors provide a remote office gateway solution that are registered with the Sphericall IP PBX. The Quintum Tenor gateways integrate legacy equipment such as fax machines, credit card readers and postal meters as well as providing local trunking and station interfaces at remote locations while users at those sites become part of an enterprise-wide unified communications network. Intelligence built into the Quintum gateways retain the ability to have normal communications in the event that corporate connectivity lapses occur - providing business continuity for remote office locations. "The ability to ensure business continuity has become incredibly important for IP communications deployments," said Chuck Rutledge, VP at Quintum, "This combination provides an extremely scalable and very reliable solution for multi-site businesses." Quintum addressed the need to assure business continuity in branch office locations in the event that connectivity to the headquarters IP PBX is lost. Small- to medium-sized enterprises and larger enterprises with remote offices are now assured of survivability through the local PSTN for local access and E911 emergency services. The Survivable Tenor gateways contains a local SIP proxy that provides survivability for local SIP endpoints and intelligent call routing to keep any SIP-based IP communications up and running if connectivity with the main proxy server is lost. It will assure that basic, essential calling functions will continue even if connectivity to the central IP PBX is lost. And its unique endpoint discovery feature allows Tenor to be easily deployed without requiring configuration for SIP endpoints. Tenors sophisticated call routing and programmable interfaces allow the integration of analog telephony devices and trunks IP telephony network. For more information on how this solution works for your business or if you are a reseller interested in providing best of class solutions from Sphere and Quintum to your customers you can contact Sphere at http://www.spherecom.com/contact.php or Quintum at http://www.quintum.com/contact/sales-contacts.html. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. About Sphere Communications Sphere Communications is the first to deliver IP PBX technology as a business application for Service Oriented Architecture. A software company, Sphere delivers the most robust IP-based software communications technology available in the marketplace. The Sphericall platform hosts an extremely rich PBX and unified communications feature set and is proven in deployments that scale to more than 20,000 users. Sphere provides OEMs, ISVs and application developers with the Sphericall Web Services SDK, enabling communications to be easily integrated into business applications and purpose-built communications systems. Founded in 1994, Sphere Communications is headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois and provides its products to a wide variety of customers worldwide. For more information please see the Sphere Communications web site at www.spherecom.com or contact us at 1-888-774-3732. About Quintum Technologies Headquartered in Eatontown, NJ, Quintum delivers VoIP solutions that bring the reliability and voice clarity of public telephone networks to Internet telephony. Quintum's intelligent VoIP access solutions integrate easily into existing PBX and IP infrastructures, making them the ideal choice for service providers and enterprises alike. Quintum sells its switches worldwide through its direct sales force and a network of resellers and distributors. For more information, call 1-877-SPEAK IP (1-877-773-2547), 1-732-460-9000 outside the US, or visit: http://www.quintum.com |
