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detail record (CDR) database and analyzing
ensure optimal use and maximum cost efficiency 
data in real time through Proteus’s costing and
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company executives, IT and telecom managers,
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saves both time and money. saves both time and money.
with a built-in VoIP gateway and SBC. with a built-in VoIP gateway and SBC.
Lync administrators can push out IP phone
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using Lync Server’s built in functionality and
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thisworkson devicesinsideadoutsideyouras Sangoma’s NetBorder Lync Express. as Sangoma’s NetBorder Lync Express.
Lync Edge and requires no additional poorly
For experienced Microsoft partners, the For experienced Microsoft partners, the
understood and poorly supported provisioning
ability to quickly deploy Lync not only ability to quickly deploy Lync not only
servers.”
reduces configuration and integration costs, reduces configuration and integration costs,
snom’s UC edition lineup includes the
but also gets the customer up and running but also gets the customer up and running
snom 7xx series and the snom 821, offering
quickly, which remains the primary objec- 
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