Verizon Voice-Over-IP Solution Helps Achieve Communications Expenditure
Reduction of 25 Percent
PARIS, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- SACEM, the French private nonprofit collective
rights management organization, has chosen a Verizon Business voice-over-IP
(VoIP) solution to streamline its voice and data communications. Verizon IP
Trunking is providing the association with a quick and easy means of deploying
IP telephony across its French operations. As a result, SACEM has already
reduced its overall communications expenditure by 25 percent.
SACEM (Societe des auteurs, compositeurs et editeurs de musique), manages the
copyright and distribution interests of authors, composers and publishers in
France. The association has more than 128,000 associate members and collects
authors' rights for copyright material used in film and TV, record production,
videos and on the Internet, as well as for live performances at public events
and other sites open to the public.
The association, which is privately run but is funded by and aligned with the
French government, has more than 1,425 permanent employees working from 89
delegation offices throughout France plus seven additional departments that
cover country regions located outside of Paris.
Given the dominance of digital media in today's market, SACEM decided to
overhaul its existing communications infrastructure to ensure that its own
technological capabilities would mirror those of its associate members. In
particular, the company wanted to upgrade its technology infrastructure to an
IP-enabled environment to simplify network management and achieve cost
efficiencies.
SACEM chose Verizon Business' VoIP solution as it offered a quick, flexible
and easy migration path to a VoIP environment. Verizon IP Trunking's
centralized, multisite design enables customers to deploy a centralized IP PBX
hub in one location, and then simply extend VoIP as well as unified
communication and collaboration services to other sites across an IP network.
There is no need for in-country TDM voice trunks or expensive gateway
equipment.
The six-month project is now complete, and SACEM is currently running more
than 2,800 Verizon VoIP extensions across its operations, giving all its
associates a four-digit extension code. Leveraging an easy-to-use Web portal,
SACEM can also run enterprisewide reporting, manage the company's dial plans
and quickly administer features.
Vincent Nortier, project leader at SACEM, said: "SACEM has a long-standing
relationship with Verizon Business, which made our VoIP transition decision
very easy. Verizon Business' innovative and cost-effective IP Trunking
solution has enabled us to quickly transition to IP-enabled communications -
and realize the benefits. We have already seen a fourfold reduction in the
cost of calls to fixed telephony lines, and a threefold reduction in calls to
mobile devices. In addition, we have dramatically simplified our
communications infrastructure, making day-to-day management much easier."
Jeff Rallet, regional sales vice president for continental Europe at Verizon
Business, said: "Verizon IP Trunking is a great solution for companies that
wish to quickly and simply move to a VoIP communications environment. It's
always gratifying for us to help our customers realize concrete return on
investments within a limited time frame. We expect to continue to support
SACEM with new and innovative technologies that help their business do
business better. It's particularly important for government-funded
organizations to be able to show they are spending money wisely, and realizing
cost and management efficiencies goes a long way toward doing that."
About SACEM
SACEM is a private non-profit Collective Rights Management Organization (CMO)
with the mission to provide protection, representation and service for
original music composers, authors and publishers. SACEM collects authors'
rights and redistributes the payments to the rights-holders in France and in
the rest of the world. More information at: www.sacem.fr
About Verizon Business
Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), is a global
leader in communications and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise
with one of the world's most connected IP networks to deliver award-winning
communications, IT, information security and network solutions. We securely
connect today's extended enterprises of widespread and mobile customers,
partners, suppliers and employees -- enabling them to increase productivity
and efficiency and help preserve the environment. Many of the world's largest
businesses and governments -- including 96 percent of the Fortune 1000 and
thousands of government agencies and educational institutions -- rely on our
professional and managed services and network technologies to accelerate their
business. Find out more at www.verizonbusiness.com.
SOURCE Verizon Business
Maria Montenegro, +1-703-886-6063, maria.montenegro@verizon.com, or Clare
Ward, +44 (0) 118 905 3501, clare.ward@verizonbusiness.com
