Background
Based in Mexico City, Winpenny Education Services (winpenny.edu.mx) is a relatively new school, steadily growing in size year after year. Its mission is to educate all children in a supportive, challenging, disciplined and positive environment, with rigorous academic study together with the incorporation of advanced technology.
C3ntro Telecom (www.c3ntro.com) is a Microsoft-specialized system integrator and long-standing AudioCodes partner, focused on helping its clients to achieve the next step by acting as a consultant and implementing end-to-end, cloud-based communication and collaboration solutions.
Like many organizations of a similar size, Winpenny’s communications infrastructure centered around a small, open-source PBX platform. It had served its purpose very well for a number of years, but Winpenny was looking to take things a step further. It wanted to benefit from the latest in unified communications while at the same time reducing its ongoing costs. The new solution had to offer full voice communications with user collaboration, instant messaging and presence. At the same time, Winpenny had limited space available so it needed a compact solution that would not require multiple servers and dedicated racks.
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Single platform
Full Lync enterprise voice on a single platform
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Small footprint
Small footprint saves space and power costs
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Lower costs
Greatly reduced capital and operational expenditure
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Seamless connectivity
Seamless SIP trunk connectivity
"AudioCodes One Box 365 is a perfect solution for small to medium organizations such as our own looking to make the move to unified communications."
Results
Winpenny’s transition from its legacy PBX to Microsoft Lync was carried out very smoothly and quickly thanks to the simplicity of the AudioCodes One Box 365 solution. The organization now has a fully functioning Microsoft unified communications platform running on a single appliance, which minimizes the issue of infrastructure management and has led to the streamlining of its overall UC operations.
“AudioCodes One Box 365 is a perfect solution for small to medium organizations such as our own looking to make the move to unified communications,” said Melvyn T Winpenny, CEO at Winpenny Education Services. “With the help of AudioCodes and C3ntro we were able to have the system up and running in very short time and can already see benefits in terms of our employees’ productivity and cost savings.”
