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Italtel launches
IntelePeer Provides Near-Real Time
operations.
Provisioning for Cisco Spark Call via “The ability to make voice calls is an
new Enterprise
important piece of Cisco Spark. And with
its new API
IntelePeer’s API and PSTN services support,
SDN-based
our customers will be able to further
realize the bene ts of a single collaboration
application
experience that spans all modes of IntelePeer, the Cloud Communications collaboration market,” said Matt Edic, Chief
communication,” said Andy Dignan, Senior Company, today announced that it is eXperience Of cer, IntelePeer.
Director of Worldwide Sales and Go-To- delivering Cisco resellers the ability to
“With the new enterprise-grade API
to enable
Market Strategy for Cisco’s Collaboration offer near real-time provisioning of voice, integrated into Cisco Spark, our voice
group. “IntelePeer’s high quality, scalable contracting and billing for Cisco Spark’s services from the cloud can be installed and
services-
and reliable service enables an automated call capabilities. As a certi ed Cisco active within minutes versus days. The API
and outstanding user experience and Preferred Media Partner (PMP), IntelePeer enabled automation helps companies to
network
seamless transition to Cisco Spark.”
has developed a new communications immediately realize the bene ts of business
Together, the combination of Cisco and Application Programming Interface (API) collaboration.”
IntelePeer’s services cost-effectively deliver that enables near real-time provisioning
Building upon its existing relationship as
harmonization
cloud-based communications services. Cisco of its voice services for Cisco Spark. a Cisco Solutions Partner, IntelePeer has
Spark backed by IntelePeer is available IntelePeer’s CoreCloud SIP service provides earned certi cation as a Cisco PMP. The
today to Cisco resellers and systems resellers a high quality reliable voice service designation as a PMP in the Cisco partner
Italtel, a leading company in Network integrators through the Preferred Media to enable Cisco Spark’s call capabilities.
ecosystem, certi es that IntelePeer’s voice/
Function Virtualization (NFV), Managed Provider Portal.
“Our strategic work with Cisco to
fax services integrate seamlessly with Spark
Services and All-IP communication, For information, please visit: www. develop the API that makes this possible Call. The combined solution has the ability
announced Netwrapper – its rst intelepeer.com/cisco-spark. n
validates the future direction of the UC and
to reduce costs and streamline telecom
Software-De ned Networking (SDN)
application that “wraps” network and
services (applications), enabling a fruitful
harmonization between them.
Built on top of Cisco’s Application
Centric Infrastructure Controller
Enterprise Module (APIC-EM), Italtel’s
Netwrapper understands each service’s
need for bandwidth and determines the
right allocation of network resources in
order to offer users the best quality of
experience (QoE).
The new Italtel application will be
released in Q2 2016 as the “policy engine”
of Italtel’s Dynamic Admission Control
solution: admission control policies of the
multi-technology Uni ed Communication
and Collaboration (UC&C) applications
are now centralized and dynamically
managed by Netwrapper, which interacts
with the IP network (through Cisco
APIC-EM controller) on one side and with
IP-PBXs on the other side.
Cisco Uni ed Call Manager (CUCM) and
Microsoft Skype for Business are among
the rst IP voice and video applications
that will bene t from QoE improvements
via Netwrapper.
“We are very excited to announce
Netwrapper. This powerful application
rati es Italtel’s entrance in the SDN
Enterprise market,” says Camillo
Ascione, Head of System Integration
Strategy & Marketing at Italtel.
“Our system is based on very re ned
algorithms, built thanks to our strong
system integration capabilities. We
have also developed a very smart data
model suitable to address many other
Enterprises’ needs using an SDN
approach.”
Phil Casini, Director of Product
Management for Enterprise
Networking at Cisco says: “Netwrapper
is another example of the collaboration
with our ecosystem partners we are
supporting to deliver high impact
applications for APIC EM. By tapping its
expertise in telecommunications to build
this solution, Italtel is also demonstrating
that our partners can utilize their core
strengths and expertise to take advantage
of Cisco’s business intent focused SDN
approach and build new business models
for their practices. Enabling dynamic and
centralized network control according to
applications’ requirements allows Italtel to
advance voice and video communications
over IP networks for their customers in a
very big way.”
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