Avaya's Quick Edition is a plug-and-play solution
with system intelligence based in each Quick Edition IP phone.
No advanced installation skills are required and the need
for a separate server or processor unit is eliminated. All
that's required is a standard 10/100Mbps switched Local Area
Network (LAN). Avaya's Quick Edition is a professional phone
system tailored to the needs of small businesses supporting
the most commonly used telephony applications including voicemail,
conferencing and auto-attendant.
The system is based on the fast emerging Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard.
Avaya's Quick Edition phones support connection
to SIP trunks. This gives small businesses the potential to
reduce their telephony costs by connecting to an Avaya-validated
SIP service provider. Enterprise branch offices can connect
via SIP trunks to a central site with an Avaya SIP Enablement
Services (SES) environment. In either case, traditional analogue
trunk connections can also be made using the optional Quick
Edition G11 4-port PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
Gateway.
Installation and set-up is simple. Avaya's
Quick Edition phones are plugged directly into the LAN and
once powered, automatically "discover" each other
and prompt for network and user name.
Once entered, the phones are fully operational in a matter
of minutes. As an office grows, new employees can be added
to the system by simply adding a new phone to the network.
When deployed in small offices with 20 phones
or less, Quick Edition does not require any QoS (Quality of
Service) configuration or formal network assessment.
The distributed
nature of peer-to-peer technology provides business continuity
advantages by eliminating a single point of telephony failure.
Avaya Quick Edition phones also automatically back-up one
another's voice mail.
