Phybridge (News - Alert), a provider of IP telephony deployment infrastructure, introduced UniPhyer, an IP deployment appliance that turns any IP PBX into a plug-and-play installation. It works with many different PBXs, including open source solutions and products from Avaya, Cisco, Digium (News - Alert), Fonality, Mitel, Nortel, ShoreTel and Siemens).

 

UniPhyer is a Layer 2 Ethernet appliance that allows VoIP and unified communication applications to be run on existing telephone cabling.

 

“The UniPhyer instantly provides a PVN (Parallel Voice Network) with an additional QoS, POE LAN drop to every desktop,” said Oliver Emmanuel, president at Phybridge, in a statement. “By leveraging existing cable, businesses can easily deploy IP telephony and converged networks with no network downtime.” 

 

“We see tremendous benefit for the UniPhyer, which can virtually eliminate the barriers associated with traditional IP deployment and make an overnight installation a reality for our customers,” said Terry Buchanan, vice president and CTO at Conpute, in a statement. “This product will allow us to focus on providing unified communication solutions and applications to help our customers, and not on spending long cycles on getting the infrastructure ready for deployment.”

 

The UniPhyer is also IP-phone agnostic. Phones plug into a PhyAdapter and into the wall jack. The IP phone is fully operational with POE, guaranteed Quality of Service, a dedicated voice path and a platform for unified communication applications. A “Y” adapter is also available to plug into the phone Ethernet wall jacks, providing an instant failover if the phone or Ethernet becomes disabled for any reason.

 

“The ease of installation, reliability, QoS and robust platform delivered by the UniPhyer compliments IP manufactures and service provider offerings ensuring their brand is not compromised by LAN network deficiencies,” said John Croce, CEO at Phybridge, in a statement.

 

Croce continued: “Both users and businesses tend to blame the new gear for quality and reliability problems and not their LAN infrastructure. The UniPhyer eliminates this risk for our IP manufacturing and service provider partners and enables them to deploy more offerings in a more economical and risk-free manner.”