SAC seek to appoint a Supplier to provide VoIP telephone systems to a) completely replace existing sytems, b) upgrade existing systems, or c) provide a hosted service, across the whole organisation, including 5 Campus sites, 24 Consultancy Offices, 8 Veterinary Centres and 7 farms.

Project Aims.

To provide SAC with an integrated SAC-wide telephony system capable of supporting new telephony features, improving connectivity, functionality, productivity, manageability and operating costs. The platform for this structure will be a converged network with telephony and data communications both being delivered over the corporate network infrastructure.

Project Objectives.

— IP Telephony (IPT) over the corporate data network,

— SIP Trunks providing access to PSTN services over the data network and the ability to have geographic phone numbers for most UK exchanges,

— unified communications (uc) providing presence, instant messaging, unified conferencing and one number reach,

— centralised management,

— centralised call logging and traffic management,

— regional site resilience where applicable,

— integration of calls from sac telephone system to sac mobiles,

— implement quality of service,

— utilise power over ethernet where possible.

Key Success Factors.

— reduction in number of independent phone systems currently installed,

— reduced telephony bills across sac,

— improved telecommunications and messaging within sac,

— centralised management of sac’s telephony estate.

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