Efi Cohen, Vice President Technology, MediaMind
"As we service the largest advertisers globally, our choice of a Unified Communications system was taken very seriously. We evaluated a number of potential suppliers, and learned that the combination of Microsoft and AudioCodes offers us the best match for our needs. 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. "
Elka Popova, Program Director at Frost & Sullivan
"The emerging Enterprise Mobile VoIP Market is expected to grow very quickly along with the growing use of smart phones by enterprise users. Combining a mobile VoIP solution with connectivity to existing TDM and IP communications infrastructure will create great opportunities for enterprises to save costs and increase the productivity of their employees, by utilizing free or flat-rated Wi-Fi and cellular data service plans for business voice communications."
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."
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
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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.”
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."
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.”
Frey Othmar, CEO, Webcall (Subsidary from Swisscom)
“One of the great things about AudioCodes Mediant 1000 Survivable Branch Appliance is that we can link it to multiple telephony solutions with its extensive support of different types of TDM telephony interfaces including the integration of analog faxes while maintaining an internal standard and ease of manageability.”
Frey Othmar, CEO, Webcall (Subsidary from Swisscom)
“AudioCodes is our preferred one-stop-shop Gateways vendor 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."
