Cablevision Systems (News - Alert) Corporation is one of the nation's largest providers of a full suite of premier residential and business communications services under Optimum Business and Optimum Voice brands. The company recently announced that it’s Optimum Voice SIP Trunking services are now certified for interoperability with Toshiba (News - Alert) America Information Systems’ IPedge IP and Strata CIX IP business telephone systems.

With this, Toshiba joins a growing list of technology partners working with Cablevision to provide an affordable, easy-to-manage communications system for small businesses, according to a press release.

Toshiba’s IPedge systems are software-centric unified communications platforms designed for organizations that want to deploy on an all-IP network infrastructure to realize the savings of managing a single network.

The Strata CIX systems provide excellent converged solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses that want a mix of IP, digital and analog endpoint devices connected to their systems, combined with IP telephony and unified communications applications.

The combination of Toshiba business telephone systems and the Optimum (News - Alert) Voice SIP Trunking service make an outstanding combination and comes with the promise of delivering high-quality, reliable voice service. With the integration with IPedge and Strata CIX systems with Optimum Voice SIP Trunking, the SMBs can expect to get enhanced value from their business telephone systems.

Optimum Voice SIP Trunking supplies VoIP access and key network-based telephony features to pre-certified IP-PBXs. This helps reduce equipment costs. As such, the solution can be ideal choice for small and medium businesses that want to take full advantage of an IP PBX (News - Alert) system while avoiding the cost of an analog gateway and/or traditional T1 solution, Cablevision explained in a press release.

It is delivered through a converged voice and data network that is supported 24/7 by dedicated customer support and field service professionals.

“With Optimum Voice SIP Trunking, small business customers can now take advantage of advanced voice and data services without capacity constraints of T1-based services. Combining our SIP Trunking service with Toshiba's IP business telephone systems gives customers access to sophisticated voice features, simplified configuration, reduced equipment costs and significant room to scale versus traditional business trunking solutions offered by the telephone company. Optimum Voice SIP Trunking is now pre-certified with an extensive group of technology partners and can assure interoperability with all their customer devices,” Cablevision's vice president of business and voice product management, Joseph Varello noted in a statement.

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