Optimum (News - Alert) Business recently announced that their Optimum Voice SIP Trunking service now has the certification of Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series that is meant for small businesses. What this pre-certified solution is now capable of delivering is a competent means of making communications easy-to-use and budget-friendly. This is in comparison to more common T-1 solutions. They can do this by breaking down the configuration and cost of equipment as well as improving on the quality of voice service.

Cisco (News - Alert) is one among the many major technological names that have partnered with Optimum Business to facilitate a more affordable and simple to use communications system targeted at small businesses. Optimum Voice SIP Trunking ensures the delivery of topnotch quality as well as reliability in voice services for small businesses. This is done by converging voice and data networks that come with a scalability of up to 100 employees. This service is meant for those clients who want to make the most of a small business IP PBX (News - Alert) system. This, while steering clear of the costs related to analog gateways and the more traditional T-1 solutions.

In a release, Joseph Varello, Cablevision's Vice President of Business and Voice Product Management, said, “Optimum Voice SIP Trunking has a tremendous commercial advantage for small and medium businesses. Most importantly, our customers can achieve enterprise-level capabilities at a low cost while improving the quality and reliability of voice services. We are pleased to integrate Optimum Voice SIP Trunking with Cisco, who shares a commitment to delivering the small business community competitive solutions to help grow their businesses.”

The Cisco UC500 system supports up to 130 users in flexible deployment models, a wide array of IP phone models, public switched telephone network (PSTN) interfaces and Internet connectivity with security services. It eliminates the need for multiple servers and combines voice, data, video, security, and wireless capabilities while integrating with existing desktop applications such as calendar, email, and customer relationship management (CRM) programs. Compatibility testing is designed to determine interoperability in most customary configurations. 

Mark Monday, Vice President and General Manager, Small Business Technology Group, for Cisco, said, “Small and medium-sized businesses are realizing that the use of Internet Protocol is very efficient and the Cisco Unified Communications (News - Alert) 500 system for small businesses capitalizes on this for quick and easy deployment, improved utilization of network capacity, economical direct inward dialing and business continuity, all of which Optimum Business customers can now enjoy.”