PosTrack Technologies, Inc. has selected Siemens Communications, Inc. as the backbone for PosTrack's hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) services for schools and enterprises. Using Siemens' OpenScape® Voice application (HiPath® 8000 application) and HiPath MobileConnect, PosTrack is delivering powerful unified communications and mobile capabilities. PosTrack purchased 10,000 new licenses on Siemens OpenScape Voice application, a scalable native SIP solution, enhancing their objective of providing improved productivity while cutting costs for universities, K-12 schools and enterprises.
osTrack and Siemens are delivering a turn-key open communications solution that eliminates the need for customers to purchase and maintain a VoIP and unified communications system on their own. Hosted voice services can help customers reduce CAPEX and ongoing management resources and expenses. Additionally, customers use and pay for only the communication applications and features they need.
Recent changes to FCC regulations have made VoIP services eligible for Universal Services E-rate reimbursement, making it more cost-effective for schools to meet the needs of their users when deploying unified communications environments.
"Siemens is a strategic part of our effort to building the future of hosted Unified Communications. Their mature and scalable solution provides the carrier-class reliability our customers require," said Don Heidrich, CEO, PosTrack Technologies. "Our long history of working with universities and schools through our Point-of-Service Division is only enhanced by the unique services we can now offer in conjunction with Siemens."
PosTrack has deployed the OpenScape Voice application as its centralized software-based VoIP solution, forming the basis of three unique services: PosTrack Trunking, PosTrack Desktop and PosTrack Mobile.
Leveraging the flexibility of the OpenScape Voice application, PosTrack Trunking provides SIP trunking directly to customers' legacy PBX systems. With this solution, customers can more easily migrate to IP on their own timeline, without retiring their current system. The PosTrack Desktop service extends SIP service to the desktop phone, delivering the enhanced features and unified messaging services enabled by the OpenScape Voice application, all at a fixed cost.
PosTrack Mobile leverages the HiPath MobileConnect solution to provide fixed-mobile convenience (FMC). PosTrack has already begun rolling out this service to 6,000 students and faculty at a large university, equipping the users with dual-mode phones. This enables the university to move away from declining landline use, creating a new service embracing their population's mobile requirements.
"PosTrack is offering cutting-edge unified communications services to its customers," said Dana Rasmussen, President of Siemens Communications, Inc. "Leveraging the power and the flexibility of the OpenScape Voice and HiPath MobileConnect applications, PosTrack provides its customers with a straightforward, more cost-effective path to the benefits of unified communications and FMC. We are excited to be working closely with them to provide these benefits."-SIEMENS
