VoSKY - Galway Volvo Ocean Race Uses VoSKY’s Exchange Gateway to Slash International Calling Costs

VoSKY VAR Calimar installs PBX-to-Skype aperture to let hundreds of canoeing aggregation associates and agents accomplish bargain calls abroad during the Galway abode of the world-famous yacht race

06 May, 2009 - The Galway Volvo Ocean Race will use VoSKY’s Exchange aperture to accredit chase aggregation associates and agents to accomplish bargain calls abroad via Skype during the abode of the world’s arch yacht chase from 23 May to 06 June 2009.

The VoSKY Exchange Pro VIT1/E1 gateway, which has been installed and configured by VoSKY arch accomplice (VPP) Calimar, will be acclimated by Galway abode accident organisers Let’s Do It Galway for the continuance of the event. Calimar has set up 118 articulation credibility to baby for the hundreds of long-distance calls, which will be fabricated from the accident offices, the media centre and the chase apple area the teams will break during the two weeks.

Lets Do It Galway will use VoSKY’s VIT1/E1 gateway, which enables average to ample sized organisations to crop advantage of calls over the Internet application Skype to account from amount accumulation of up to 90% over acceptable telephony.

Derrick May, CEO for Calimar, said: “The Volvo Ocean Race is one of the better antic contest to appear to Ireland so we capital to accord and get complex as abundant as possible. As the Galway abode accident organisers, Let’s Do It Galway, is a not-for-profit organisation we offered to activity administer the telecoms basement during the accident for free.

“During the two-week abode hundreds of yacht aggregation members, acknowledging agents and media will charge to accomplish all-embracing calls, so Let’s Do It Galway appropriate a able-bodied and reliable articulation arrangement which would not alone be able to bear high-quality articulation calls, but would accept the accommodation to cope with the top aggregate of calls that will be made.

“Furthermore accepting not-for-profit, Let’s Do It Galway bare a cost-effective solution; VoSKY’s T1/E1 Exchange is the absolute band-aid to all these requirements as it will accumulate communications costs for the organisers low and will be able to abutment up to 30 circumstantial Skype calls. With such a top contour accident it’s acute that things run smoothly; there is no agnosticism that the VoSKY Exchange will added than accommodated these expectations.”

Neil Carney, Operations Director, Galway Volvo Ocean Race, stated, “As organisers of the better antic accident and anniversary in Ireland during 2009, Let’s Do It Galway is captivated with the abutment and casework of Calimar and their VoSKY communications systems which will accredit us to bear a best in chic account to the visiting teams, media and abutment cadre to the Volvo Ocean Race.”

David Tang, VP of all-around business for VoSKY, said: “The VoSKY gateways not alone accredit organisations and businesses to crop advantage of the huge amount extenuative allowances of Skype, but ensure Skype’s functionalities are accurately managed; authoritative them plan as bigger as accessible for a business after a circuitous or big-ticket basement upgrade.

“By alive carefully with Calimar we accept accustomed a mutually amiable affiliation and their captivation in the Galway Volvo Ocean Race is enabling us to ability a added admirers and authenticate the capabilities of our gateways. We are analytic advanced to accepting allotment of such a celebrated event.”

“Skype’s ambition is to save organisations time and money appropriately enabling them to break advanced in these amount acquainted times,” said Ian Robin, Head of Sales and Marketing for Skype for Business. “ This is a abundant archetype of how Skype and its ally are able to actualize a admired band-aid for a different application.
“The Galway abode promises to be action arranged and we are admiring that Calimar accept called to cover Skype as allotment of their communications band-aid for the hundreds of staff, aggregation associates and columnist that will be accessory this event.”
The VoSKY Exchange Pro VIT1/E1 seamlessly integrates with absolute PBXs with T1 or E1 agenda interfaces, acceptance organisations to crop advantage of bargain calls over the Internet after replacing their absolute arrangement infrastructure. With a VoSKY Exchange gateway, advisers can accomplish and accept Skype calls from their approved appointment buzz – no Skype software, computers, or headsets are required. The stand-alone, 1U rack-mountable apparatus is simple for telecom/IT managers to configure and manage.

VoSKY's latest aperture can abutment up to 30 circumstantial Skype calls application E1 ISDN PRI or up to 23 calls with T1 ISDN PRI, accouterment scalable achievement for action applications.

The VIT1/E1 aperture was installed in a few weeks and as allotment of the articulation and abstracts deployment Calimar is aswell alive with addition bell-ringer to accumulation the fibre and install a primary amount arrangement to use for all bounded and civic calls.

The Volvo Ocean Race is a nine-month continued event, which started in Alicante, Spain in October 2008. The teams will captain over 37,000 abyssal miles, finishing in St Petersburg on June 25th 2009. Over 200,000 humans are accepted to appointment the Galway Volvo Ocean Race.

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Based in the affection of Silicon Valley, VoSKY is the all-around baton in allotment businesses to advantage Skype, the world’s better VoIP community. The company’s proven, enterprise-grade solutions actualize new opportunities for small-to-medium admeasurement businesses (SMBs) and enterprises to abate communications costs and advance productivity. VoSKY Exchange, the company’s flagship product, is an award-winning PBX-to-Skype appliance aperture that seamlessly integrates a company’s buzz arrangement with Skype. This plug-and-play belvedere is accordant with any absolute TDM or IP PBX buzz system.

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Caption: VoSKY’s aperture helps carve all-embracing calling costs for Galway Volvo Ocean Race

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Stephanie Wu
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Calimar Contact
Derrick May
Calimar Ireland, Lynnwood House, Oldenway Business Park, Ballybrit,Galway,Ireland.

Skype In: + 353 91 442012
email: derrick.may@calimar.eu
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