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VIRTUALISATION Telstra & Microsoft claim first hosted IP telephony / Microsoft Office integration
VIRTUALISATION Telstra & Microsoft claim first hosted IP telephony / Microsoft Office integration | Telstra & Microsoft claim first hosted IP telephony / Microsoft Office integration |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 11 August 2009 | |
  
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"High definition" telephony is Telstra's name for IP telephony supported on Polycom IP phones. Telstra announced in April 2008 a partnership with Polycom that made Polycom the preferred handset provider for TIPT. "Co-branded with Polycom and Telstra's logos, the next-generation TIPT handsets extend HD-quality voice calls to Australian organisations of all sizes, enabling them to leverage their investments in IP networks to experience the unrivalled clarity and productivity benefits of true High Definition, wideband telephone conversations," Telstra said. Telstra's TIPT service is hosted on a BroadSoft platform and the integration with Microsoft Office now being offered to customers was launched internally to Telstra staff late last year. Today's announcement comes from Telstra Enterprise and Government and makes no mention of the Microsoft applications being provided under a software as a service model. This is available from Telstra under its T-Suite service. T-Suite however is an offering from Telstra Business, directed at SMEs. Earlier this year the then head of Telstra E&G, Paul Geason, told iTWire that E&G did not see much demand for hosted apps from its customer base. "Today, Telstra E&G would not take responsibility for the provision of any application, but I am not discounting it," he said.
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