Turnstone launches converged business network

Auckland, 23 July 2007 -- Managed network services provider, Turnstone Limited, today launched its converged business network, providing integrated voice, data, security, video messaging and other telecommunications services over a managed Internet Protocol (IP) network.

The company is offering managed integrated network services to small to medium enterprises with multiple locations and up to 500 seats. Telephony is provided as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, reducing costs and providing greater functionality over traditional analogue telephony services.
Turnstone utilises a high speed fibre backbone between Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and data storage from IBM. The network has been built using Cisco integrated services routers with extensive built-in security features and Quality of Service techniques to manage network resources. The network has been quality assured by IBM.

“For over 100 years, telecommunications has been carried on closed proprietary networks connected to tens of millions of cheap, dumb terminals called phones,” says Turnstone Director, Barbara Smith. “Internet protocols, in particular VoIP, make these networks open and extensible, capable of supporting new applications and connecting to complex and vulnerable multi-tasking end-points – called computers.”

“Now Turnstone’s Converged Business Network provides secure, high quality voice, data, internet, web, computing, email, messaging mobile, video and fax services between branch offices and external organisations and contacts Integrated communications networks promise savings in several areas: lower call prices, reduced travel costs and savings through device consolidation. But the gains from productivity improvements are even more significant: smarter working, perpetual ‘presence’, stronger collaboration, more efficient resource utilisation, greater flexibility and more responsive service.

“Consolidating and integrating telecommunications internet and mobile services over a converged business network enables organisations to reduce costs, improving communications services and gain competitive advantage,” says Sales Manager, Peter Naylor. “Our promise is one solution, one standard and one bill: customers will enjoy increased flexibility, greater opportunities to reduce telecommunications costs and better management tools.

“In the US and Europe leading edge companies have found they can cut costs with converged networks. But they are also using the new applications that unified communications bring to revolutionise their business processes and deliver enterprise-wide benefits as business practices are freed up by the removal of limitations of traditional telecommunications systems.”
Turnstone completes its offering with custom design network services: “We manage the entire network for you,” says Naylor. “If you want to change the way your calls are routed, you call us and we make it happen. If someone in your organisation shifts from Auckland to Wellington, all you do is call us and we make the change online. It’s all completely transparent to users.”
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For further information contact
Barbara Smith
barbara@turnstone.co.nz
+64 21 743 153
Allan Botica
+64 21 400- 500
alanb@botica.co.nz