TT Electronics Finds in Taridium ipbx a Dream Solution to PBX Nightmare

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- When leading open standards VoIP solutions
provider Taridium LLC (http://www.taridium.com), developers of the Taridium
ipbx enterprise solution, received a call from TT Electronics, the
British-owned global electronics group's situation was dire: The Toshiba phone
system TT Electronics had been using for 11 years was out of space to add new
users, support for the PBX had been discontinued, and Toshiba was advising TT
Electronics to migrate to a more expensive, updated version of the hardware
with no more capacity than its current PBX.

TT Electronics had spent the last six months investigating their options - and
in the meantime, out of necessity, the company had started taking phones away
from existing users to accommodate new employees. TT Electronics information
system manager David Koch and his team determined Nortel, Avaya and Cisco
systems were not good fits for the company's needs and began searching for an
open-source solution.

They found that fit in Asterisk(R), an open-source PBX and telephony platform
that runs on a variety of systems, including Linux. Though the TT Electronics
team had some experience with Linux, the team's background in telephony was
limited. The company felt Asterisk might be the answer to its problems, but it
lacked the time and expertise to implement the communications platform
throughout the corporation.

"In order for this to be successful we needed to find an experienced solutions
provider to help us transition off of the Toshiba PBX to a modern phone
system," Koch explained. A quick Web search led him to Taridium and its
graphical management interface, Taridium ipbx.

Immediately, TT Electronics realized Taridium ipbx would allow the company to
manage its PBX in-house and hand off daily maintenance tasks to an
administrator. Comparison of Taridium ipbx with solutions offered by other
open-source VoIP companies, including Fonality, Switchvox, Trixbox and Digium,
convinced TT Electronics that Taridium ipbx was the best fit for its needs.

"It was a long process, but we needed to find the right solution and that was
Taridium. They offered the best blend of flexibility, price to performance,
excellent references, and expertise," Koch stated. "Taridium did a complete
evaluation and helped us get our infrastructure in line ... Taridium remotely
installed and configured our entire Perry [Ohio] office (initially 150 users)
in a matter of days. To say the least, we were surprised at the level of
expertise and speed at which our phone system was put into production."

TT Electronics now enjoys an easy-to-use, professionally supported system that
allows the company to add phones and users in-house - with no hard limits on
the number of users and expandability. Taridium provides remote access and
troubleshooting services as needed.

"Compared to the proprietary solutions we looked at, [Taridium's system] was a
bargain given the performance we got from Taridium," finished Mark Kray, vice
president and general manager of TT Electronics.

To read the entire TT Electronics case study, or to learn more about Taridium
ipbx, visit the company at http://www.taridium.com.

Contact:

Dominique Kull
Taridium LLC
212-461-1600
press@taridium.com
http://www.taridium.com

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SOURCE Taridium LLC

Dominique Kull of Taridium LLC, +1-212-461-1600, press@taridium.com