Q-KON SA, the South African distributor of the Network Equipment Technologies (NET) VOIP appliance, E-SBC, SBA and gateway products, has announced that, for the first time, UX1000 products can now be assembled outside of the NET manufacturing plants.
The UX1000 is a Microsoft qualified Enhanced Gateway or SBA for the small to medium-sized branch office. It ensures that the Lync Server will operate at a high level of security and quality in branch offices during WAN failures.
The UX1000 offers true “any-to-any” signalling translation and media inter-working between Lync and legacy TDM clients and PSTN endpoints. The UX1000 can simultaneously connect to legacy TDM PBXs and the PSTN through PRI, BRI or FXO ports. Alongside these ports, FXS ports are available for analogue phones and faxes, to provide complete TDM device integration into a branch office's Lync topology.
In parallel, the UX1000 also interconnects IP-based endpoints (ie IP-PBXs, non-Lync SIP clients) and public VOIP networks (eg ITSPs) to the Lync clients.
The UX1000 is a modular platform, and local assembly means more than 100 possible configurations are available to suit a customer's exact requirements. This advantage extends to the support of the product, as processing capacity, ASM modules, or other line cards can be added as the deployment evolves, or can be replaced in case of equipment repair.
“We are certainly very proud NET chose Q-KON SA as the first distributor to undergo the required training, and to be certified as a NET Assembly Distributor (NAD). Our support and service has always been a key capability that we offer to our customers. This (new certification) allows the supply chain to add even more value,” says Tjaart de Wet, MD Q-KON SA.
The UX1000 is supported by its bigger brother, the UX2000, and the UX series is now being type-approved by most major SIP Trunk providers (including Neotel, VOX, ATC, Vodacom) as well as PBX manufacturers (including Alcatel, Cisco Call Manager, NEC, Siemens, Nortel and Panasonic).
Together with the local assembly advantage, there is every indication and assurance that stakeholders are ready to develop the local unified communication market.
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