• Deploy a complete IP telephony suite on one easy-to-manage system – or even part of a system shared with other applications
• Integrate your voice, collaboration and business applications to unify communications, streamline business processes and boost customer satisfaction and loyalty
• Connect co-workers, suppliers, partners and customers to improve productivity and collaboration
• Lower your traditional fixed telephony costs while enhancing the way you do business for increased competitive advantage
• Benefit from the simplicity, reliability, integration, scalability and security of DETEL solutions to IP telephony
• DETEL has partnerships with industry-leading VoIP and UC networking solutions providers, including Microsoft, Polycom and Brocade to provide you with the best products and solutions available

Few networks are ready to support Unified Communications (UC) and IP-based voice services. In fact, Gartner estimates that 90 percent of existing data networks need additional build-out to support VoIP, and all require configuration changes.

These findings are not surprising. Organizations seeking to deploy IP telephony and Unified Communications services face several infrastructure-related challenges, including:

• Service quality: The network infrastructure needs to meet critical voice and video conferencing latency requirements.
  
• Power delivery: The network needs to support power delivery to IP phones and other Unified Communications devices.
  
• Auto-configuration: Network ports need to auto-configure when IP phones are plugged in.
  
• Availability: Telephony is a mission-critical application that does not tolerate downtime.
  
• Security: Voice and Unified Communications services need to be protected against threats and need to work across firewalls.
  

Delivering voice and Unified Communications solutions requires more than just basic network connectivity. DETEL offers a complete set of switching and routing solutions to help organizations implement IP telephony and Unified Communications solutions while leveraging their existing network infrastructures.


DETEL UC-ready networking solutions provide a rich set of features that help ensure the highest-quality VoIP and Unified Communications environments, with both stackable and chassis-based edge products. These enhanced features include:

Automated Quality of Service

• Layer 2-3 automatic, dynamic honoring of QoS : DETEL networking solutions are built to deliver QoS without the need for manual configuration. This eliminates both the work in defining complex QoS configurations and the possibility that the configuration will be incorrect. DETEL automatically delivers QoS honoring in stackable and chassis-based edge switches.

Dynamic Power Delivery

• DETEL products fully support 802.3af (PoE) and 802.3at (PoE+) standards, with integrated and redundant Power over Ethernet (PoE) power capabilities that are affordable, reliable, and effective.
  
• These PoE networking solutions include support for non-802.3af-compliant devices, configuration on a per-port basis, and a unique smart ports feature, which delivers proper wattage even if manually misconfigured.

Always-on Reliability

• Integrated, redundant, hot-swappable AC/DC power supplies: DETEL provides the only fully redundant internal power management solution that spans both high-density stackable and chassis product lines. This includes internal, hot-swappable, redundant, load-sharing power supplies, and power upgradeability with no system impact.
  
• DETEL modular switches include redundant management modules, fans, load-sharing switch fabrics, and power supplies.

Automated Port Configuration

• DETEL edge products support a variety of industry-standard methods for placing an IP phone on the proper voice Virtual LAN (VLAN). With both automated QoS and voice VLAN discovery, an IP phone can be automatically given the proper QoS features and be placed in the proper voice VLAN with no manual intervention. This decreases the cost of deploying VoIP infrastructure and services, and eliminates costly configuration errors.

Comprehensive Network Security

• DETEL IronShield 360 security architecture, combined with products from leading security provider vendors offers converged security for access control, intrusion detection, and secure enforcement.
  
• DETEL offers security solutions with key partners that are specifically targeted at securing voice and Unified Communications networks.

Wireless Mobility

• Wi-Fi connectivity is an integral part of VoIP and UC connectivity solutions.
  
• DETEL offers all the pieces to deploy a wireless enterprise. In addition to offering indoor networking equipment, DETEL also provides the tools to wirelessly connect multiple buildings across a corporate campus.

Proven VoIP and Unified Communications Solutions

• DETEL provides multiple options by working with best-of-breed IP telephony and UC vendors to validate the functionality, performance, and quality of converged networking solutions on a variety of different phone and call manager/media gateway and UC server platforms.
  
• DETEL has developed and tested VoIP and UC networking solutions with key partners, including Microsoft, Polycom and Brocade.