Nortel Using Verizon's VoIP to Streamline Network

Nortel is streamlining to keep costs down and productivity up. The company is using Verizon IP Trunking service with Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks to consolidate its U.S. corporate voice infrastructure and save on IT costs. The company has a three-year agreement with Verizon. According to Nortel: With Verizon IP Trunking service, Nortel will move from a distributed voice architecture to one that is simplified, centralized and more cost-effective. The BEST feature, which Verizon Business introduced earlier this year, is an on-demand networking capability that enables customers to use idle trunk capacity from one or more locations to dynamically accommodate increases in traffic at other locations, providing more design flexibility and reducing the total number of trunks required across the enterprise. Two key Verizon IP Trunking features that enable the Nortel solution include DID (direct inward dial) transport to a Nortel central access point, and E911 support. "Consolidating our voice infrastructure to VoIP will provide network efficiencies that serve to increase productivity while driving costs lower," said Steve Bandrowczak, chief information officer for Nortel. "In the initial phase of deployment alone, we anticipate significant operational savings with a return on investment in a little over a year. The endgame is that it allows us to focus on our business, which is serving our customers." Source: VoIP-News