Verizon Europe in VoIP eruption
Verizon’s European division has launched a battery of new business-oriented products based on VoIP. The company is offering a managed IP-PBX, an IP trunking service to link distributed workplaces, and an IP-Centrex service.
Verizon, not being present in Europe as a voice network, is trying to build up a services business there in order to compete with the major European telcos and data centre firms.
Enterprise VoIP is highly popular with carriers and big companies’ IT managers alike – it saves dramatic sums of money by permitting calls to be served over the company’s LAN along with the data. It also radically simplifies applications like the PBX, corporate directory and helps to link widely dispersed workplaces’ phone systems.
Carriers, on the other hand, see an opportunity to lock in the customer and make money from consulting and providing the software and IP phones, or alternatively a fully hosted and managed service.
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