Busy Call Centre Cut Over With 4 Minute Downtime Print E-mail
Written by Adam Gosling   
Wednesday, 21 June 2006
Sydney's Premier Cabs' call centre takes more than 3.6 million bookings a year for its 1000 taxis, MaxiCabs, and Prestige Service taxis. When it moved its aging PABX and call centre infrastructure across to a spanking new Avaya system, the phones were cut off for only 4 minutes.

Orchestrated by Avaya reseller partner NSC, the Granville headquartered Cab company says the decision to replace its old PABX system was taken late last year. "Our existing system was coming to the end of its life and Avaya offered an attractive upgrade solution that would enable us to take advantage of the new IP Telephony platform," said Paul Kelly Communications Manager, Premier Cabs.

It's not the first time Avaya partner NSC has tackled a cab company. It managed the roll-over of both Swan Taxis in Perth and Silver Top Taxis in Melbourne.

NSC provided a technical services manager and a customer services consultant on-site during the cut-over to the new IP Telephony infrastructure, which also included an IP-based Call Recording facility.

The IP connected Call Recording solution from Verint, combined with the Avaya IP telephony system will allow Premier Cabs to monitor all calls and implement appropriate agent training to ensure best practice customer service.

The new IP Telephony solution comprises an Avaya S8710 IP Multi-Connect System running Communication Manager 3.0.1 with dual S8710 Media servers supplying a high level of reliability and uptime for the business, two G650 Media Gateways and Intuity Audix Voice Mail for up to 100 users. Two UPS units provide full redundancy in case of power outages.

Laying the platform to upgrade its existing Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) capabilities in the future is the Avaya Application Enablement Services (AES) Server which currently links to the Verint Call Recording Solution.
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