"The release of the Inter-Tel 7000 marks a real milestone and one of our proudest achievements in the company's 37-year history," noted Norman Stout, chief executive officer of Inter-Tel. "This is the culmination of a more than three-year effort in which hundreds of developers, engineers, product managers and other team members invested hundreds of thousands of hours to turn this vision into reality. I want to congratulate all of these professionals for creating a true next-generation solution that will remain relevant to customers for many years to come." The Inter-Tel 7000 delivers a powerful multimedia communications solution offering mid-size businesses and enterprises robust, integrated IP telephony applications.

 

Among these include Inter-Tel's presence management and advanced call routing capabilities; powerful mobility solutions; collaboration, web and audioconferencing applications; and user-friendly system administrative and diagnostic tools. The Inter-Tel 7000 scales up to 2,500 users, and includes redundancy and speech recognition dialing as standard features. "For years, Inter-Tel has earned the respect of the communications industry for its ability to provide technology that tangibly improves business processes," said Craig W. Rauchle, president and chief operating officer for Inter-Tel. "The Inter-Tel 7000 was designed to enable us to deliver this same value to larger businesses that are continually tasked with increasing revenue, improving customer service and controlling costs.

 

In addition to supporting a broad range of full-featured Inter-Tel IP endpoints, customers also have the flexibility to integrate existing and future standard SIP endpoints, gateways and vertical market applications into their infrastructure to meet their individual business needs. Inter-Tel also announced that it has selected Quintum Technologies as a preferred vendor for SIP gateways. As part of this relationship, Inter-Tel is integrating the Quintum SIP gateway management interface into its Inter-Tel System Manager application, designed to enable customers to administer the entire Inter-Tel 7000 infrastructure through a single web portal.

 

"We believe the Inter-Tel 7000 marks a new era in enterprise communications as one of the initial second-generation VoIP platforms to enter the marketplace," explains Jeff Ford, Inter-Tel's chief technology officer. "This open-standards platform offers choices to customers that are not typically available through proprietary technology and has a feature set that we feel surpasses IP offerings in the market today.

 

Moreover, it is designed to enable businesses to take advantage of new communications technology as it becomes available, with the expectation of adding to increased productivity, improved efficiency and a substantially longer technology lifecycle to help protect their communications investment."

 

Source: Inter-Tel