Inter-Tel has announced that its much-anticipated Inter-Tel (News - Alert) 7000 communications platform is now available for sale. I first heard about and reported on this SIP-based softswitch back in March.

 

Well, the platform has finally been released for Genearal Availability. Serving enterprises with up to 2,500 users, the Inter-Tel 7000 provides full PBX (News - Alert)-style functionality, and is designed to enable customers to integrate standard SIP devices and applications into their networks to meet their businesses needs.

 

The Inter-Tel 7000 delivers a multimedia communications solution offering mid-size businesses and enterprises a series of IP telephony applications. Among these are Inter-Tel’s presence management and advanced call routing capabilities; powerful mobility solutions; collaboration, Web and audio-conferencing applications; and user-friendly system administrative and diagnostic tools.

 

In addition to supporting a broad range of full-featured Inter-Tel IP endpoints, customers also have the flexibility to integrate existing and future standard SIP endpoints, gateways and vertical market applications into their infrastructure to meet their individual business needs.

 

Inter-Tel also announced that it has selected Quintum Technologies as a preferred vendor for SIP gateways. As part of this relationship, Inter-Tel is integrating the Quintum (News - Alert) SIP gateway management interface into its Inter-Tel System Manager application, designed to enable customers to administer the entire Inter-Tel 7000 infrastructure through a single Web portal.