Higher Education Institutions Take a Different Approach to VoIP

PosTrack and Phybridge team up to create complete end-to-end hosted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Solution.Chicago, New York, Toronto September 28, 2011

Don Heidrich, CEO of PosTrack commented, “We’re in the extreme excited about our partnership with Phybridge. Their innovative use of a long-proven innovation to provide IP voice with QoS and PoE over a dedicated IP network removes most, otherwise all, of the key barriers to VoIP migration and significantly improves service quality and reliability.” The PosTrack/Phybridge partnership extends across multiple markets, with PosTrack’s Communications as a Service platform providing voice services; during the Phybridge UniPhyer allows clients to leverage legacy telecom cabling to build an high-quality IP Voice network.

The entire data network to support PoE

“The cost comparison between upgrading the entire data network to support PoE and the Phybridge alternative was compelling. VoIP would have been a multi-year initiative for us simply due to the finances. Now we’re looking at an installation measured in weeks.” Dr. Grewal elaborated, “Given the number of folks shifting to a mobile phone and/or a desk phone environment as their primary voice devices, it makes more sense to keep the door open to changing technologies than investing in solely putting voice on our data network and at that time having to pay for its ongoing management , even if there was an abundance of capital for the project.”

Heidrich as well discussed the rapidly expanding trend toward mobility. “We anticipated this time would come and made it the foundation of our model three years ago; and now we’re seeing it across all of our markets. Our goal is to enable our clients to manage a fully mobile communications environment; and seamlessly integrate that environment with their current research and business practices. This has been of particular relevance to Higher-ed, and we look forward to a long relationship with Wagner.”

“Today we have basic PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange) functions and legacy phones on desks across campus. PosTrack will give us more control over our voice environment, and give our users access to their campus number on smartphones and soft-customers,” said Dr. Grewal. ”In substance, we’ll be able to support users globally with the same amount of effort it took to manage their desk phone. The added advantage of the PosTrack solution is that, when completely implemented, it will streamline user management via integration with our LDAP.”

Croce added, “We created the UniPhyer because we wanted organizations to have easier access to advanced communications innovation. The PosTrack partnership takes this to a whole new level. When you can help an organization move its voice services forward by several generations of research, during virtually eliminating their capital expense for the migration -- it’s exciting.”

Private liberal arts college located in Staten Island

Wagner College is a private liberal arts college located in Staten Island, New York, with a full-time equivalent enrollment of roughly 1,800. Through our signature four-year undergraduate curriculum, the Wagner Plan for the Practical Liberal Arts, and our location in New York City, the College offers students a comprehensive educational program in other words anchored in the liberal arts, experiential and co-curricular learning, interculturalism, interdisciplinary studies, and service to society. Wagner as well offers master’s programs in nursing, education, business, and microbiology.

PosTrack Technologies offers 25+ years of experience in innovation management, consulting, development, and deployment. PosTrack’s background includes hundreds of customers from higher education, K-12 education, healthcare, and corporate enterprise. PosTrack Telecom was created in 2006 in response to emerging trends in the telecommunications landscape. In order to deliver world-class telecom solutions to the verticals we have long served, PosTrack built a team of solution partners including industry leaders with billions in annual sales. This partner network includes value-added resellers, infrastructure partners, and solution partners. To boot to Phybridge, membership of the partner network includes Level 3 Communications, Presidio Research Capital, and Siemens Enterprise Networks.

Phybridge’s mission is to bring practical innovations to market that provides clients and partners an easier way to deploy and manage their VoIP installs resulting in reduced total cost of ownership and enhanced return on investment. The Phybridge UniPhyer, the only networking switch globally delivering Ethernet and PoE over a single pair with reach of 1,200 feet. Clients are migrating to IP telephony quickly and easy leveraging the existing voice infrastructure to create an optimized converged network. Old Phone Today, IP Phone Tomorrow, Guaranteed QoS.

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