ShoreTel Teams Up For Large Enterprise VoIP Print E-mail
Written by Adam Gosling   
Thursday, 23 August 2007
Small Business VoIP player, ShoreTel, has signed a distribution agreement in Canada with Black Box Corporation which claims to be the world's largest technical services company.

The strategic alliance will see the two go after large multi-site installations. The two say that already have a track record for delivering pure IP communications solutions to FORTUNE 1000 and enterprise-class organizations.

Under terms of the agreement, Black Box will sell, install and support ShoreTel's IP telephony solutions to its large enterprise customers across the United States and Canada. The combination of ShoreTel's Pure IP telephony systems bundled with the world-class Black Box services organization enables Black Box to extend efficient one-stop shop expertise to its U.S. and Canadian customers.

"Black Box has built its strong reputation on offering enterprise customers the industry's best telecom products and services, so ShoreTel is a natural fit for our portfolio of products," said Rick Gannon, regional general manager at Black Box. "There is a clear demand from our customers forShoreTel's solutions, and we are very impressed with the overall performance and reliability."

ShoreTel Pure IP telephony systems provide customers with a number of key benefits, including ease of use, manageability and lower total cost of ownership than alternative solutions.ShoreTel's distributed software architecture and switched-based hardware platform extend enterprise-class voice services to every office and remote location, keeping employees fully connected wherever they go.

"This new alliance marks a significant expansion of ShoreTel's ability to distribute our solutions through companies like Black Box," said Joe Vitalone, vice-president of sales at ShoreTel. "In turn, our IP telephony systems address the needs of Black Box customers by providing the utmost flexibility, reliability and manageability."

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