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Nortel Improves Communications Flow at China's Ministry of Water Resources

By Raju Shanbhag, TMCnet Contributing Editor

Linking employees in 31 provinces, the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) of the People's Republic of China has implemented a unified communications solution from Nortel (News - Alert). This unified communications from Nortel also links seven major river systems.

 

MWR's new communication platform is designed and built with a combined IP PBX and soft switch architecture and is powered by Nortel technology. This enables comprehensive business communications delivery on one unified platform. Looking to enable delivery of collaboration tools across the organization, MWR selected Nortel to supply a converged communications platform after a two-year evaluation period.

 

Built around Nortel's Communication Server 1000 (CS 1000), a highly reliable IP PBX (News - Alert), MWR's unified communications solution provides more than 750 telephony features and supports up to 22,500 simultaneous IP users. MWR has also deployed the Nortel Multimedia Communication Server 5100 (MCS 5100), a SIP-based application delivery solution that delivers IP telephony, multimedia conferencing, instant messaging, presence, and other collaboration tools to a broad range of devices.

 

MWR decided to upgrade its internal communications by implementing an IP-based communications platform to meet the demands of carrying voice, data, video and presence information on the same communication platform as the agency is responsible for water resources across China.

 

“In organizations with widely distributed employees, maintaining effective communication and collaboration is a complex undertaking that can mean the difference between success and failure,” said Jerry Huang, general manager, Enterprise Networks, Nortel Greater China.

 

“Nortel's expertise in unified communications solutions, backed by our Business Made Simple philosophy, has taken the complexity out of this task. MWR now has a robust IP infrastructure that enables instant communication via VoIP, multimedia conferencing, instant messaging and presence-based applications. This means the Ministry's employees can coordinate their activities whenever, however and from wherever they need, simply and effectively,” added Huang.

 

Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page

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