ADTRAN and the Future of the SMB Network Infrastructure
I spoke with Tim Saunders, ADTRAN's VP of Product Management, Enterprise Networks Division, at Interop today about a couple of things: their NetVanta 7000 IP PBX product, the challenges associated with introducing new products into a market, and, most interesting, the changing face of SMB network products.
ADTRAN's NetVanta product is, in one sense, an IP PBX but it is also a converged hardware product with integrated IP router and Ethernet switch, 24-port Power over Ethernet, voicemail, auto attendant, VPN, support for analog phones, fax, modem and more.
If you walk around the floor of Interop you can find similar solutions to the SMB problem of network infrastructure but they require 4-5 pieces of equipment. Why shouldn't all of the equipment in a small business' network closet be a single box? For a small business without an IT staff a single machine is certainly easier to troubleshoot than, say, figuring out that no one can get voicemail because the router is unplugged.
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