BT Onevoice gets triple boost

BT has announced three key enhancements to the BT Onevoice global platform which are designed to deliver further major cost reductions for global organisations.

The first is the addition of session initiation protocol (SIP) connectivity - an increasingly-recognised signalling protocol that underpins a unified communications network infrastructure.

BT says the addition of SIP access is a vital development to the platform as it allows customers access to next generation unified communications and collaboration (UCC) features such as presence and cost-effective flexible internet protocol access.

The company intends its global SIP roll-out to take place throughout 2009 - delivering UCC capability to the main BT Onevoice supported countries by the end of the year.

The second new application is BT Onevoice Conferencing, which allows calls via BT’s MeetMe conferencing service to be delivered at significantly reduced rates.

The third enhancement - BT Onevoice Mobile Access - enables international mobile voice traffic to be routed through the BT Onevoice platform and delivered through the converged voice and data network. This will realise significant cost savings on international mobile calls from the user’s home country.

Neil Sutton, vice-president of global propositions and capabilities in BT Global Services, said: "With these latest enhancements, BT Onevoice offers organisations all the core functionality they are seeking from an integrated global voice platform.

"By moving to a converged BT Onevoice infrastructure, customers can reduce costs, supplier numbers and complexity - while also ensuring their communications strategy is firmly on track to the ultimate ambition of a complete, feature-rich, unified communications environment.”