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Program for Skype for Business is expected to further bolster con dence among partners and enterprise clients.
“By participating in the Skype for Business Certi cation Program, Ixia’s Hawkeye has
been tested and proven to be an enterprise grade communications solution for Skype for Business,” says Paul Cannon, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microso . “Ixia is now
a member of our diverse ecosystem of best of breed vendors for uni ed communications pre- assessment and rollout.”
Hawkeye’s coverage spans wide area networks (WAN), local area networks (LAN), virtual private networks (VPN), and cloud access to wireless LAN (WLAN) architectures. As a result, Hawkeye can help validate that complex business-critical services will be available 24×7.
Hawkeye simulates application tra c and sends key performance metrics to a central console, enabling IT professionals to easily detect, diagnose, and x network performance issues before they impact end users.
Hawkeye enables customers to:
Rapidly deploy new services with pre-launch assessments for business applications (e.g. VoIP, UC, video conferencing, business critical applications) over wireline and wireless, including cloud migration projects.
Automate day-to-day IT tasks needed for managing complex network and application environments across o ces, campus networks, and virtual data centers.
Control network and services performance with cost-e ective so ware endpoints or turnkey probe distribution that delivers expansive coverage.
Proactively detect problems and implement tests with clear demarcation points to locate network and application issues for quality of experience (QoE) against expected service levels.
Learn more at www.ixiacom.com and www. keysight.com. ■
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leading enterprise webcasting solution for interactive town halls and all-hands in the Fortune 1000, has announced its partnership with Pexip, an award-winning vendor of video conferencing and collaboration technology,
to enable streaming of virtual meetings to audiences of unlimited size.
With this partnership between the respective leaders in large-scale delivery and small group collaboration, enterprises now have the ability to seamlessly scale their video infrastructure to meet any internal communication use case.
“While large enterprise webcasts were traditionally produced only in studios, we’re seeing much more interest now in producing webcast content from a much wider array of sources, including video conferencing end- points, virtual meeting rooms, and Skype
for Business,” observed Mike Newman, MediaPlatform’s CEO. “With this partnership, we can provide the organizations the meeting room exibility and audio-visual delity Pexip is renowned for with the scalability and reliability we provide for large audience live webcasts.”
e Pexip In nity meeting platform provides organizations with unlimited capacity for video,
SoftBank Selects AudioCodes Solutions for Skype for Business Online
de nition IP phones which o er excellent voice quality and ease-of-use. e 400HD series includes a range of models covering virtually all business needs from common-area phones to high-end executive devices with large color touch screens.
“AudioCodes’ products and solutions are a perfect t for our hosted UC o ering based on Skype for Business Online,” commented Mr. Akiumi Maekawa, Director of UC Service Department at So Bank. “Having a single supplier for all our voice infrastructure
needs enables us to streamline procurement procedures and simplify support and training, all of which contribute to a reliable and cost- e ective service for our customers.”
“Being selected for So Bank’s hosted uni ed communications service is an important validation of our One Voice for Microso 365 strategy,” explained Nimrode Borovsky, VP of Global Marketing at AudioCodes “A er many years of successful collaboration with Microso UC on-premises deployments, our broad range of certi ed voice solutions are now delivering value in cloud-based Skype for Business environments as well.”
For more information on AudioCodes, visit http://www.audiocodes.com. ■
So Bank, a leading Japanese telecommunications service provider, deploys AudioCodes products and solutions at business customers as part of its Skype for Business Online hosted service
LOD, Israel
Highlights
● So Bank o ers its business customers a hosted O ce 365/Skype for Business Online service based on a monthly subscription
● So Bank is deploying AudioCodes on- premises connectivity solutions and IP phones for its business customers
● AudioCodes equipment helps customers connect to the service rapidly and smoothly
● AudioCodes solutions include a managed o ering of IP phones on employees’ desktops, as well as on-premises voice connectivity infrastructure connecting to the So bank network
Details
AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC), a leading vendor of advanced voice networking and media processing solutions for the digital workplace, has announced that leading Japanese telecommunications provider So Bank has
audio, and web conferencing across traditionally incompatible technologies. It seamlessly combines legacy video conferencing, Microso Skype for Business and WebRTC for browser- based video.
“We are excited to announce MediaPlatform as a live webcasting partner. We are focused
on partnering with vendors with established track records for excellence across the world’s top organizations,” said Chris Ford, Pexip VP
of Sales for the Americas. “As a recognized leader in enabling the delivery of live executive messaging by leading industry analysts, MediaPlatform brings a rich set of features and services that will assist our enterprise customers scale their corporate communications e orts.”
In addition to interoperability between MediaPlatform and standards-based video conferencing solutions, the Pexip integration provides MediaPlatform clients the ability to include the reach of Skype for Business meetings to their webcast audiences — whether viewing on desktop, tablet or smartphone.
Pexip In nity users, on the other hand,
can take advantage of the set of best-in-class online corporate broadcast features from MediaPlatform that include: registration, polling, Q&A and multimedia content. With pioneering network optimization technology and the enterprise streaming industry’s most advanced QoE and QoS monitoring system, organizations with cloud or hybrid cloud deployments of Pexip In nity can now leverage MediaPlatform as their video distribution engine without negatively impacting internal networks.
More at www.mediaplatform.com and www. pexip.com. ■
selected AudioCodes products and solutions as part of its Skype for Business Online based, hosted uni ed communications (UC) service. So Bank has begun deploying AudioCodes connectivity solutions and IP phones at its business customers’ premises across Japan.
e AudioCodes products deployed by So Bank include the Mediant 800 CCE Appliance which delivers reliable and exible on-premises voice connectivity for Skype for Business Online customers. With session border controller (SBC), media gateway and Microso Cloud Connector Edition so ware integrated on a single hardware device, the Mediant 800 CCE Appliance enables connectivity with legacy on-premises PBXs and UC platforms as well
as with local TDM and SIP trunks. is helps organizations protect their investment in existing communications equipment and service provider contracts during and a er the migration to Microso ’s cloud communications o ering.
In addition, So Bank customers can bene t from AudioCodes 400HD series of high-
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