Dan Schwartz Realty, a real estate brokerage firm in Phoenix is leveraging IP telephony and security solutions from Avaya and Juniper Networks to provide company-wide employee access to business-critical voice and data applications.


A combination of the Avaya IP Office solution and the Juniper Networks (News - Alert) J-series routers and firewall/IPsec virtual private network security appliances will enable Dan Schwartz Realty to achieve secure communications across headquarter remote and home office locations. This would increase the firms’ employee productivity and its responsiveness to customers.

Dan Schwartz Realty integrated a secure converged communications solution into its existing network for a cost effective VoIP deployment with ongoing management and maintenance provided by The I.T. Workshop, a certified member of Avaya’s (News - Alert) BusinessPartner program and Juniper J-Partner.

According to Darren Patoni, president and CEO of The I.T. Workshop, Dan Schwartz Realty decided to deploy the Avaya IP Office and the Juniper J-series routers because of the products’ ease of use and ability to be managed remotely by their staff.

“Because our offices and employees are distributed throughout the Phoenix area, we required a solution that could quickly and easily connect them regardless of their location,” said Duane Fouts, CEO and president, Dan Schwartz Realty in a press release.

He continued: “Juniper Networks and Avaya provided something different from all other vendors by delivering a solution that could securely connect our employees and scale to meet our business needs without requiring significant additional investment or re-working the network.”

Juniper recently teamed up with Avaya to integrate the company’s IP voice gateway and communications applications with Juniper’s new J4350 and J6350 J-series enterprise branch routers introduced on Monday.

Juniper’s new routers can be configured with Avaya’s new IG550, an integrated media gateway with various telephony interface modules. The integrated offer will provide enterprise remote and branch offices with a product that features Gigabit Ethernet routing and IP telephony functions.

For more information, visit Avaya, Juniper or Dan Schwartz Realty.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering call centers, CRM and information technology.