Aastra

Aug 31 2008   8:19PM GMT

Aastra Joins HP ProCurve Alliance

Posted by: Tony Bradley
ResponsePoint, Unified Communications, UC, ProCurve Alliance, HP, Aastra

Aastra, a global provider of communications equipment, and one of the three vendors supplying hardware for Microsoft’s ResponsePoint communications system, announced that they have joined HP’s ProCurve Alliance. According to an article from mysolutioninfo.com, “partners joining the HP ProCurve Alliance go through a rigorous process that includes technology certification to ensure solution interoperability, simplified deployment and optimised performance. End users can enjoy the confidence that they will be served by a trained, competent and certified channel.”

Jun 5 2008   2:33AM GMT

A Look at Aastra’s Response Point System

Posted by: Tony Bradley
VoIP, UCC, UC, Unified Communications, D-Link, Syspine, Quanta, Aastra, SIP, Response Point, Microsoft, Allen Miller

Microsoft’s Response Point phone system will have a third hardware provider very soon. Quanta (Syspine) and D-Link have already been providing Response Point base units and phones, and now the long awaited Aastra phone system is nearly ready for prime time. The Microsoft Response Point system offers small and medium businesses many of the features and functions of larger enterprise-level unified communications voice solutions, in a cost-effective and exceptionally simple system. Aastra, aside from just being the third vendor on the block to offer Response Point equipment, is also the first to provide a cordless phone handset option that works with Response Point. Ohio-based consultant Allen Miller shows off some pictures of his beta system and talks a little about the Aastra equipment on his blog. Miller also talks in another post about his experience using the Aastra Response Point phones to conduct a call over VoIP while also loading his network down with additional activity. Overall, Miller gives the Aastra system high marks and says that his call was crystal clear even with the extra network traffic.