NEC Philips To Manage University of Edinburgh’s VoIP

NEC Philips have won the contract to power the University of Edinburgh’s VoIP infrastructure. Currently the university uses a mixed platform of IP phones and traditional PSTN phones. With this new contract, the universaity is aiming to expand it’s reliance on IP telephony from the current 800 sites to 1000 sites.

The university is also increasing the number of DECT phones so staff can wander freely and still maintain connectivity. No word yet on who will be supplying the DECT phones. Philips recently announced their own DECT VoIP phone for Skype, the VOIP841.