MOSCOW, Dec 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
TRUST National Bank, one of the leading commercial banks in Russia, has
completed the upgrade of its country-wide communications network with
Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) Unified Communications to offer highly secure,
multi-functional digital telephony services. The Bank now boasts a
resilient multiservice network infrastructure that helps reduce management
and operational costs.
The need for fast and reliable voice and data communications across a
growing network of branches and customers necessitated an infrastructure
upgrade to be able to offer a host of next generation services, such as
multimedia conferencing and location agnostic presence, for improved
customer service.
"As one of the largest commercial banks in Russia, TRUST National Bank
needs to ensure 24x7 access to the full range of banking services,
especially as we continue to grow our customer base and expand our
geographical presence," said Alexei Katrich, managing director of IT and
Operations at TRUST National Bank. "Located across 40 cities of the
Russian Federation, we required new innovative communications tools to
realize the full potential of our banking applications and the raise
quality of service for our customers, while enjoying economic benefits of
new technologies. Cisco IP solutions offer a strong mix of reliability,
integration, reduced operational costs and long-term viability."
TRUST National Bank selected NVision Group, a Cisco Gold Certified
Partner, to implement Cisco Unified Communications to make the network
increasingly fault-tolerant, secure, intelligent and scalable. The new
system also helps enable the integration of telecommunications with
banking business applications. Bank employees can access a full range of
telephony services to maximize the efficiency of using PSTN lines and cut
long-distance communications bills. With robust encryption and security
built into Cisco IP solutions, conversations over the Bank's digital
network are highly secure.
"The Cisco Unified Communications solution is helping to enable growth by
laying a strong foundation for raising collaboration performance and
improving cooperation with customers and partners, which in turn could
help the Bank increase clients' loyalty," said Pavel Teplov, Cisco
business development manager. "Bank employees are now empowered with
simple intuitive communications applications and convergence across fixed
and mobile devices -- all of which together help raise personal
productivity."
"We changed the main operating principle of TRUST National Bank's phone
network by migrating it from traditional analog technologies to
Cisco-based IP telephony, which helped us to integrate communications
with business processes," said Anton Sushkevich, CEO, NVision Group. "The
upgraded network now makes use of the capabilities of IP telephony,
multimedia conferencing and intelligent networks to radically cut the
Bank's expenses while improving employee productivity."
TRUST National Bank's network upgrade deployed different Cisco products,
such as voice gateways, WAN routers, IP Phones and access switches.
Specialists from NVision Group completed the entire network infrastructure
upgrade -- installing the whole set of hardware and software utilities.
About TRUST National Bank
The TRUST National Bank is one of the thirty largest financial
institutions of Russia (according to the Central Bank of the Russian
Federation). The bank supports a full range of retail banking services,
offers loans to small and medium businesses and provides enterprise
banking services via Russia's third largest network of branches
(according to RBC Rating).
In July 2007, the shareholders of the National and the Investment TRUST
banks decided to merge their assets. In November 2007, prior to the
merger, Merrill Lynch purchases about 10% of the TRUST bank holding. For
more information about the TRUST National Bank, please, refer to
http://www.trust.ru.
About NVision Group
ZAO NVision Group is a leader of the Russian system integration market and
a leading supplier of IT solutions and services. The company relies on the
full range of technologies, expertise and industry solutions helping
commercial businesses and government agencies to raise business value of
technological investments.
The company headquarters is located in Moscow. It also has a regional
daughter company in Almaty, Kazakhstan (NVision Central Asia), as well as
branches in the cities of Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, St.
Petersburg, and Tashkest, Uzbekistan (NVision Group Asia). More
information about ZAO NVision Group is published at
http://www.nvisiongroup.ru.
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