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Horak

ShoreTel 14.2 delivers customizable virtualization

By Ray Horak, Technology Editor
tem designed and developed entirely in- scales easily to serve the needs of virtu- 30,000 businesses of all sizes in over 60
house, so it is homegrown and organic, ally any size organization, whether SMB countries.
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which yields lots of advantages, includ- or enterprise, single site or multisite. That I recently interviewed ShoreTel rep- horeTel recently released ShoreTel
ing tight integration. The design concept design challenge pointed to a unique dis- resentatives who explained that ShoreTel 14.2, the latest version of its award-
focused on a highly modular solution that
tributed architecture used by more than
14.2 takes the ShoreTel solution to another winning Unified Communications
dimension—a virtual dimension that deliv- (UC) software. ShoreTel is a pure IP sys-
ers much greater flexibility for deploy-
ments, with the ability to mix and match
ShoreTel hardware-based Linux appliances Searching high and low for a
or now as virtual software appliances on
customer provided general purpose serv-
ers running VMware in a single network,
or a combination of both, all managed Cloud Telephony Solution?
via a single web-based management inter-
face. Companies deploying ShoreTel 14.2
can select the UC deployment model that
best suits their business and infrastructure
needs—physical, virtual, or a hybrid com- Are you a reseller, VAR, or ‘like’ a service provider
prising any combination. Bernard Gutnick,
Director of Product Marketing for ShoreTel
explained that “The associated benefits are and looking to buy, rent, or host your own system?
clear and immediate, including reduced
hardware and operational complexity,
higher application availability, increased
scalability and reliability.” ShoreTel 14.2 Look no further.
enables all ShoreTel UC components,
including call control, SIP trunks, CRM
integration, unified messaging, contact cen-
ter and collaboration applications, to be
virtualized and implemented on industry
standard servers.
Gutnick went on to explain that ShoreTel
14.2 is flexible enough to support central- Increase
ized or decentralized call control on prem-
ises or in the customer’s private cloud. Due Sales
to its unique architecture, the ShoreTel
system incorporates a level of redundan-
cy that delivers a truly high availability
solution through a single failover switch
(called Spare switch) that can be positioned
anywhere in the company’s network. In
addition, ShoreTel customers can leverage Reduce
VMware vMotion to enable practically
zero-downtime in case of hardware or soft-
ware failure.
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In terms of scalability, ShoreTel 14.2
quadruples the port capacity per virtual
machine. ShoreTel virtual machines in Boost
VMware supports up to 1,000 phones and
500 SIP trunks. This increased capaci-
ty simplifies deployment especially for Profits
customers that choose a centralized UC
deployment. The ShoreTel solution can be
implemented on the customer’s choice of
industry-standard virtualized servers, thus
consolidating the server hardware across
multiple applications, reducing energy Upgrade to the Industry’s Choice TODAY!
requirements and minimizing hardware
footprint. ShoreTel 14.2 is available now
from qualified ShoreTel reseller partners.
If you’ve been searching for an addition to your premise based
ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) is a
leading provider of “brilliantly simple” IP offering, or you want to add cloud to your portfolio, contact us today.
phone systems and unified communications
solutions. Its award-winning on-premises
IP-PBX solution and cloud-based hosted
phone system eliminate complexity and
improve productivity. ShoreTel is head-
quartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has
regional offices and partners worldwide.
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For more visit www.shoretel.com.
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