Puneet Sharma, Director of IT Services, Oxnard Union High School District
The modular AudioCodes Mediant 1000B Survivable Branch Appliance was an excellent fit for the district, solving our survivability needs and enabling integration with the legacy Bell and Paging systems
Blake Garrabrant, VP of Global Information Technology at SHFL Entertainment
SHFL’s migration/transition to Microsoft Lync went smoothly with little disruption to the business, partially due to our choice to work with AudioCodes for gateways and E-SBCs.
Blake Garrabrant, VP of Global Information Technology at SHFL Entertainment
AudioCodes gives us the flexibility to manage our global topology and enable us to work with local carriers to meet the needs of each facility
Graham Rawles, Technical Director, InterCall
Our vision is to offer our customers unparalleled productivity, hence we decided to offer Microsoft Lync as a hosted service. In order to focus on the service, while maximizing operational efficiency, we decided to align with AudioCodes on their One Voice for Lync offering. We found that being able to source both IP Phones and SBA from a single reputable vendor, not only simplified our logistics and operational overhead, it also plotted a clear support structure for us.
Othmar Frey, Sales Director at Baggenstos AG
As a local Swiss company, we knew we could fully rely on international support from AudioCodes. One of EBP’s requirements was that its voice infrastructure should be available 24x7. Thanks to AudioCodes’ global presence we can guarantee this level of service to the customer.
Hjalmar Heinrich, IT manager at Ernst Basler & Partner
Our global communications capabilities have made huge advances since we deployed Microsoft Lync. Thanks to the AudioCodes hybrid gateways and SBCs, we have been able to ensure a high level of security and reliability for our internal and external voice communications with a solution that can meet our immediate and future needs.
Wielligh Lambrechts, Senior Systems Administrator at Stellenbosch University
AudioCodes Mediant 1000 E-SBC met all our requirements to ensure the successful integration of our Lync platform with Skype Connect’s SIP Trunking service.
Fairoz Jaffer, Galdon Data Director
AudioCodes has proven to be an innovative partner and has added value and flexibility to many of our Lync sites.
Alan Levine, CIO, The Kennedy Center
With the AudioCodes session border controller in place, we could seamlessly migrate extensions and functionality from the PBX to Lync Server 2010 at a pace that worked for our employees and business.
Marty Parker, co-founder, UCStrategies.com
AudioCodes has correctly identified and addressed a challenge faced by customers as they migrate to Lync. AudioCodes One Voice for Microsoft Lync provides a ‘one-stop’ solution components source for both customers and Microsoft Lync voice partners. Enterprises can eliminate the time and coordination previously required to select, configure and deploy the devices and gateways needed for their UC pilots and rollouts.
Bill Vollerthum, President and Founder of Enabling Technologies Corp, a leading Microsoft Lync int.
Enabling Technologies has been successfully implementing Microsoft Lync projects with AudioCodes Gateways, SBAs and E-SBCs. Now with AudioCodes One Voice for Microsoft Lync, we are more competitive and efficient in the way we serve and support our Enterprise customers.
Diane Myers, Principal Analyst, VoIP, UC, and IMS, Infonetics Research
Our most recent report covering the Unified Communications market shows Microsoft continuing to have strong gains, attaining the #1 position in terms of Communicator licenses in the third quarter of 2012. AudioCodes One Voice for Lync offering is a broad complement of solutions to the growing base of Microsoft UC deployments.
Giovanni Mezgec, General Manager, Microsoft
We see the AudioCodes One Voice for Microsoft Lync program as an opportunity to accelerate deployment of voice-enabled Microsoft® Lync® deployments. Simplifying the buying, integration and support processes, enables quick realization of Microsoft Lync advantages. We are very pleased to have AudioCodes implement such a program and see clear benefits for our voice partners.
Efi Cohen, Vice President Technology, MediaMind
AudioCodes’ products enable us to make the best out of the Microsoft UC environment, by integrating it seamlessly with the PSTN, desktop IP Phones and mobile devices. The deployment of the entire solution was handled very smoothly and we are already seeing significant enhancements in our employees’ efficiency and productivity.
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."
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.”
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
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.”
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
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."
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
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."
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.
Chrysis Phiniotis, Manager, FMC Project
“Geomant and AudioCodes have enabled us to leverage the investment in our Unified Messaging solution and allow both our wireline and wireless subscribers to benefit from this service. The solution has been rapidly deployed and we are satisfied with its performance.”
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”
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
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
Attila Megyeri, Microsoft Program Manager
“We are collaborating with AudioCodes on various Microsoft enterprise opportunities. We had to solve a coder inconsistency issue in a carrier environment for Cyta. We discovered the Mediant 3000 to be an ideal solution for this purpose, in terms of densities and interoperability. We are satisfied with this choice as the system is performing well and in accordance with our expectations.”
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.
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
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
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
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."
Kapil Sharma, principal group program manager, Lync Partner Engineering Team, Microsoft Corp
The program is designed to help ensure that customers have a quality experience with setup, support and use of qualified ISV solutions with Microsoft Lync, Now that AudioCodes has completed its interoperability testing, businesses can use its call recording solutions with Lync 2010, to record customer interactions for business intelligence and compliance.
Ilkka Salomaa, Lead Architect, Tieto
"AudioCodes’ Mediant 3000 E-SBC platform is a critical component of the service as it allows us to offer end customers a complete, reliable and scalable cloud-based enterprise voice solution at low cost. The flexible nature of the Mediant 3000 means that new customers and service providers can be added to the service rapidly and seamlessly."
Mikko Silonsaari, Senior Service Architect, Tieto
"AudioCodes’ E-SBC products offer exactly what we were looking for in terms of features and manageability. With AudioCodes’ extensive experience in achieving interoperability with Microsoft and other vendors, the Mediant 3000 was the perfect choice for us to offer reliable and secure SIP trunking services to our UC customers."
Kenneth Libutti, Assistant Director for Broward College
The pilot with Microsoft Lync with full audio-visual conferencing was a success and the results have been outstanding. The audio quality with Lync conferencing and an AudioCodes media gateway is better than we have ever had before. We will now be migrating all users into Lync and eliminating the legacy conferencing system and using only the Lync conferencing system, connected by the AudioCodes Mediant Media Gateway.
Ian Burgess, Head of Global Infrastructure at GM&T
SmartTAP ticked all the boxes as far as our requirements for a Lync-compatible call recording system were concerned. Recording calls is completely seamless without any need for user intervention. The success and ease with which the initial installations took place have given us the confidence to roll out SmartTAP in our other offices around the world.
Rodrigo Quevedo, Specialist Voice Business Development Manager at Microsoft
AudioCodes Survivable Branch Appliances and Enhanced Media Gateways for Lync provides customers with a full range of offerings to help overcome interoperability and survivability challenges. Microsoft is pleased with AudioCodes’ commitment and support to help customers in Latin America migrate their communications into the future with Lync.
Ricardo Pardo, General Manager at Intergrupo Connect
In just 9 months, by using AudioCodes products we have been able to migrate more than 6,000 seats and voicemail boxes in Colombia. AudioCodes technology has given us the opportunity to offer our clients a seamless and affordable migration to unified communications from various well-known PBX vendors.
Oscar Novoa, CEO of Grupo Unika
AudioCodes’ innovative solutions for Lync are being used to deploy unified communications for enterprises and governmental institutions. The flexibility and simplicity offered by AudioCodes’ solutions are helping to expedite Lync’s adoption.
Ludwig Quiroz, CEO of Acanto S.A.
AudioCodes’ technology enabled us to create a cost-effective solution for a major governmental institution in Chile with 50 sites across the country. AudioCodes’ products offer an interoperable solution that enables reuse of our client’s legacy analog phones and cabling, dramatically reducing the cost of migration to a complete Microsoft Lync solution, while enabling the introduction of advanced unified communication services.
Chris Courneya, CEO, prairieFyre Software
We are excited to be working with AudioCodes as they have continued to grow their call recording solution for Microsoft Lync. The SmartTAP 2.0 quality monitoring and scoring features nicely complement our ACD and reporting to provide a compelling contact center solution, especially for the SME market.
Jon Morrow, senior program manager for Unified Communications at Microsoft Corp
This collaboration offers additional choices to meet our customers' call recording and contact center needs.
Oscar Novoa, CEO, Unika
AudioCodes’ innovative solutions for Lync are being used to deploy unified communications for enterprises and governmental institutions. The flexibility and simplicity offered by AudioCodes’ solutions are helping to expedite Lync’s adoption.
Jacques Loubser, CIO at BCX
As part of our company-wide deployment of Lync as our Unified Communications platform, we selected AudioCodes’ suite of solutions for enabling voice connectivity. With AudioCodes, we were able to acquire gateways, SBCs, SBAs and IP Phones from a single vendor, resulting in lower cost of ownership.
Travis Morrison, Sr. Systems Administrator at New Belgium Brewing
AudioCodes has been a great fit with our needs. Plus, with our younger workforce, integration with Lync and OCS gives everyone what they feel they need to perform at their best through IM, video, presence, pictures and reliance on social networking has been invaluable to keeping culture going.
Jyoti Black, Senior Director, Microsoft
We’re pleased to welcome AudioCodes and their 300HD and 400HD IP phones to our phone interoperability program. Once AudioCodes IP phones are qualified, partners can benefit from simplifying purchase, training, and support by procuring phones, gateways, SBAs and E-SBCs from a single vendor.
Giovanni Mezgec, General Manager of Lync Product Marketing at Microsoft
The qualification of AudioCodes’ IP Phones as compatible with Lync is an important milestone in the development of Microsoft’s Lync ecosystem. With AudioCodes, we now have a hardware vendor partner that will help enable system integrators to smoothly design and implement Lync deployments, and will offer Enterprise customers the benefits of simplified administration and management.
enable the connectivity between the existing legacy PBX in the enterprise and the Unified Communications platforms, in order to allow PC users the flexibility of placing phone calls to telephony users, receiving presence information, and supporting future converged capabilities of the Microsoft Unified Communications framework. 
