Soul seeks resellers for Linksys VoIP platform

Stuart Corner
Friday, 13 July 2007 02:33

Business IT - Technology

A Linksys One installation comprises a Cisco service node - carrier grade Cisco equipment that sits in the service provider's network, the Linksys One 16-Port Services Router (SRV3000) on the customer's premises and individual end points, primarily IP phones.

Two key selling points are the ease and speed with which an installation can be configured - Linksys claims that a 20 handset installation can be set up in an hour - and the fact that the configuration is backed up remotely. So a customer installation an be recovered and rapidly reconfigured simply by replacing faulty hardware.

Although being promoted today primarily as a voice telephony system, Linksys One is intended as a complete communications architecture for a small business with functionality being added simply by connecting the appropriate devices, such as storage, video cameras, onto the network. New devices designed to be easily connected and configured to a Linksys One installation are being branded "Linksys One Ready".

With Linksys One, the company hosting the Linksys One service node 'owns' the system and generally goes to market through a number of resellers that install and manage, via access to the service node, their customers' installations.