VoiceCon: Nortel CVAS shows off hosted IP comm solution

At this week's VoiceCon show, Nortel CVAS, which is currently in the process of being bought by GENBAND, launched a Carrier-grade hosted IP communications solution. The Hosted IP Communications solution allows enterprises to migrate to IP with mobility, UC, hosted call centers and audio/video conferencing using Nortel CVAS' CS 2000 softswitch and the Adaptive Application Server which supports legacy Centrex and TDM equipment to ease into migration.

"One of the obstacles for hosted environments in the past for enterprises is they like to control the network--why they like PBXs is that they can go in and make the changes to feature sets. In the past with Centrex you couldn't do that, you had to go to the service provider to do that. Now with VoIP you get your own portal. The enterprise can get the control they want without going through the service provider," said Mitch Simcoe from Nortel CVAS in a walk through of their hosted offering.

The service offers easy on/off switches for all the available IP comm services for all the users at the enterprise through an online interface for easy access.

According to the release and the companies estimates, hosted IP communications can be deployed at 30 percent lower cost of ownership  compared with an IP PBX solution. That is a pretty compelling figure in lean times when big CAPEX decisions are passed over.

For more:
- read the release

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