Verizon and Nortel offer hosted VoIP

U.S. telco giant Verizon has firmly swung its support behind hosted VoIP for enterprises, announcing this week a deal with Nortel for 5,000 IP telephony platforms to offer businesses turnkey IP networks. Verizon also announced a number of new IP trunking capabilities to help companies balance their bandwidth demands.

Initially targeting large and government organizations, Verizon Business is offering managed IP PBX on the Nortel platform, combined with Verizon's end-to-end network management. This new managed IP PBX offering provides the option for transitioning to an advanced and integrated IP-based communications system by simply adding a new server and updated software and will be available next month.

The deal is a big win for Nortel, but also a significant call from Verizon as it seeks to build its IP business services franchise based around a hosted infrastructure strategy.

For more:
- Verizon offers managed I-PBX support Release
- Verizon Business offers VoIP transition services Report
- Verizon promotes hosted VoIP Blog

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