Randy Schrock, Vice President of Solutions, BT Global Services
“AudioCodes is a key strategic partner in BT’s Symphony ecosystem which globally delivers BT System Integration and Managed UC/Voice services. The breadth of AudioCodes solutions for Microsoft Lync encompasses Enhanced Media Gateways, Survivable Branch Appliances, Enterprise Session Border Controllers, mobility and call recording enabling BT to deliver and deploy best of breed Microsoft Lync turnkey solutions.”
Frey Othmar, CEO, Webcall (Subsidary of Swisscom), Switzerland
“AudioCodes is one of our preferred one-stop-shop gateways vendors for Microsoft Unified Communication Solutions. AudioCodes gateways are the clear choice for maintaining interoperability directly with the Service Provider and Microsoft Lync environment. This allows us to practically reduce the overall solution cost by eliminating the need for IP-PBX".
Alex Osorio, Microsoft Practice Manager at Nexus IS
“Many of our clients require Lync deployments which include remote site support. The AudioCodes Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) gateways deliver reliability and survivability to local branch Lync users even when the WAN is disrupted to the headquarters office. In addition, AudioCodes Gateways and SBAs have the same core architecture, software and management facilities to reduce our ongoing training and support requirements while offering our clients investment protection."
David Lim, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) - Lync, Sapientia Holdings Pte Ltd., Singapore
“AudioCodes has been proven as a Unified Communications innovation company. AudioCodes product integration with Microsoft Lync Server provides a strong business and technical value to customers that are looking for business productivity enhancements in UC and telephony. As an MVP, I am convinced."
Mike Nelson, Principal at Integrated Access Solutions
“AudioCodes’ Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) gateways have been an integral part of our Microsoft Lync offering. The AudioCodes SBA gateways support scaling, capacity and interface options that allow IAS to deliver Lync functionality to our customer's remote branch locations."
Bill Vollerthum, President of Enabling Technologies.
“AudioCodes has developed an extensive portfolio of Microsoft Lync solutions including Enhanced Media Gateways, Survivable Branch Appliances and Enterprise Session Border Controllers. AudioCodes' product innovation, extensive suite of Lync product offerings and sales and technical product support are key factors for why Enabling Technologies recommends AudioCodes to our customers."
Marco Gateño, President at Datatel, S.A., Panama
“Having AudioCodes as a key component of an integrated UC offering centered around Lync has provided us with a real competitive differentiation and has enabled us to offer our customers substantial added value. This has helped us gain real and immediate traction in the market and together with the other ecosystem alliances helped establish our company as a leading provider of UC solutions in the Central American region."
Airton Coelho, CTO, Allen Informatica, Brazil
“AudioCodes offers VoIP technologies that add value to the Microsoft UC solution, As a reliable and scalable platform that integrates the entire structure from telephone service providers. AudioCodes brings to Microsoft the confidence of a manufacturer with extensive experience in the telecommunications and IP technology. Here at Allen, we offer a complete solution on the Microsoft platform and AudioCodes is an extremely strategic partner in delivering a turn-key solution."
Kevin Carswell, Chairman and CEO of The Via Group
“We have been working very closely with AudioCodes for several years. The addition of their high availability Mediant 3000 Enhanced Gateway for large enterprise headquarters and regional offices and the Mediant 800 Enhanced Gateway and SBA for survivable branch solutions for small locations to their Mediant 1000 and 2000 Enhanced Gateways and SBAs enables The Via Group to offer our customers the most comprehensive scaling and reliability options available on the market today from AudioCodes".
Kapil Sharma, principal group program manager, Lync Partner Engineering Team, Microsoft Corp
"Ever since we started our Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program, we've been working with AudioCodes, Mediant 800 SBA, will help our distributed enterprise customers provide cost-effective survivable branch solutions for their small locations. The Mediant 3000 Enhanced Gateway will support large enterprise customers that need highly available media gateways, supporting thousands of simultaneous, high-quality calls between Lync clients and the Public Switched Telephone Network."
Mark Summerson, General Manager, Unified Communications at BT Global Services
“We have qualified AudioCodes as our preferred Gateway vendor as they allow us to offer a solid migration path for our business customers from their existing telephony systems to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Lync Server 2010."
Yancey Smith, director of product management, Microsoft Lync
"AudioCodes Media Gateways and Survivable Branch Appliances for Lync provide customers a full range of offerings to provide both interoperability in the data center and survivability in branch offices. Microsoft is pleased to be working with AudioCodes to help customers move their communications into the future with Lync."
Denis Chernyadiev, IT Infrastructure Manager
“Upon implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging, we had to select a qualified Media Gateway to connect the Exchange Server to Nortel PBX, as we were very happy with the quality of the AudioCodes media gateways we had been using for several years, it was only natural for us to use it to connect to the Exchange Server as well. We also got very positive feedback from our colleagues in other Deloitte member firms who had made the same decision.”
Mark Summerson, General Manager, Unified Communications at BT Global Services
“Another important aspect in the selection of AudioCodes was their ability to provide the same user interface for their various gateway products, which enabled us to save on staff training and shorten the configuration and provisioning process. We are very happy with our choice and have been connecting customers to our network successfully.”
Jochen Gertler, Global Services of BSS
The AudioCodes gateway utilizes a robust and stable embedded software design, and also supports modularity and interface flexibility. We feel very comfortable with the Microsoft and AudioCodes solution. It is standards based and very easy to manage. Microsoft provides us with IT-oriented unified communications solutions, and AudioCodes complements it with everything we want with regards to interfacing with legacy telephony
Mark Summerson, General Manager, Unified Communications at BT Global Services
"The potential for Unified Communications Solutions with business customers has never been greater. However, the complex integration requirement within existing enterprise frameworks required us to design a compatible solution set ahead of time. As a result, we built a Microsoft Unified UC architecture coupled with AudioCodes’ gateway portfolio. This allowed us to provide flexible and cost-effective resolutions for the voice integration challenges of our business customers.”
Rick Miller, Manager of Enterprise LAN Services
The AudioCodes gateway was viewed as a necessary step as we integrate multiple locations with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The AudioCodes product flexibility and features, as well as the fact that the gateway can support Exchange Server 2007, Office Communications Server 2007, and PSTN connections simultaneously, were key factors in our decision. We are pleased with the performance of the AudioCodes gateway and the ease of its integration.
Ollie Clapinson, Solutions Designer, Unified Communications at BT Global Services
“AudioCodes’ Mediant platform makes it possible to perform the transcoding at the customer’s premises, simplifying the integration of OCS, and now Lync, with other enterprise telephony platforms, and with cloud-based SIP services, such as BT Onevoice. Because of the modular design of the Mediant 1000, we can also provide a seamless migration path from ISDN to IP-based voice services, on the same chassis, by simply enabling the E-SBC feature."
Denis Chernyadiev, IT Infrastructure Manager
“Although supporting direct integration between Nortel Communications Server 1000 and Microsoft Office
Communications Server 2007 was theoretically possible...the Nortel PBX upgrade...was very expensive and contradicted our communications strategy, so after a pilot phase, we chose to use the AudioCodes gateways for this as well. This way, we were able to connect the two systems without having to change any configurations in our Nortel PBX."
Thorir Baldursson, Lead System Administrator
We simply realized that our best option would be to discard the proprietary IP-PBX we had in place and replace it with the joint Microsoft and AudioCodes solution. We also felt much more comfortable with the Microsoft and AudioCodes solution. It is standards based and very easy to manage. Microsoft provides us with IT-oriented unified communications solutions, and AudioCodes complements it with everything we want with regards to interfacing with legacy telephony
Frank Chay, Director of Information Technology and Services
AudioCodes gateways provide high performance and voice quality, and they easily integrate with Microsoft software. The gateways can support Exchange Server 2007, Office Communications Server 2007, and PSTN connections simultaneously. The gateway was easy to install, and it gave Glentel options for both analog and digital connections to the PSTN.
Dario Buenger, support engineer at Topas
When BSS approached us for consultation regarding the right Media Gateway for their solution, the AudioCodes Mediant 1000 was the natural choice, Beiersdorf required a Media Gateway that would support E1, BRI, FXS, FXO as well as another model from the same vendor that will support higher densities of VoIP channels as well as STM-1 interfaces. AudioCodes was the only vendor supporting these requirements, with the Mediant 1000 and the Mediant 3000 Media Gateways
Allison Watson, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group
Today, Microsoft recognizes AudioCodes as a new Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating its expertise providing customer satisfaction using Microsoft products and technology
Rolf Hansmann, Head of Common Services Architecture and New Technologies
The AudioCodes Mediant 2000 gateway easily integrates with Microsoft software and provides high performance and voice quality
Jörg Meier, BSS Manager of Global Client Server Services
We are extremely pleased with our advanced Unified Communications system. It is very simple to use, maintain, and expand. We recommend enterprises to seriously consider eliminating their TDM PBXs and Key Systems and to make the transition towards the next generation of communications
Thorir Baldursson, Lead System Administrator
We are extremely pleased with our advanced Unified Communications system from Microsoft and AudioCodes.It is very simple to use, maintain and expand. The high level of voice quality has proven to be a powerful solution. We recommend enterprises to seriously consider eliminating their proprietary IP-PBX systems, as well as their TDM PBXs and Key Systems, and transition towards the next generation of communications – just like we did
Denis Chernyadiev, IT Infrastructure Manager
“We have chosen to retire Nortel IP-PBXs in all of our branch offices and move to a communications system based on Microsoft and AudioCodes only... it is standards based and very easy to manage...we completed the system integration ourselves, with some expert consultancy from AudioCodes people in Russia. We also plan to move to a centralized architecture and retire the PBXs in our remote branches once Microsoft Lync is released, using AudioCodes’ Survivable Branch Appliances”
Jan Petersen, Unified Communications Project Leader
AudioCodes offers high-performance gateways that easily integrate with Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging to provide excellent voice quality
Christian Frederiksen, Business Development Director, Artilium
Based on input from The VIA Group, Artilium chose an AudioCodes Mediant 2000 media gateway because it is highly scalable, carrier-grade equipment and works with both E1-based and T1-based lines
