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| ShoreTel Expands Its Global Offerings ShoreTel has expanded its global offerings with new products and solutions designed for worldwide markets. The move will extend ShoreTel's unified communications (UC) solutions to a stronger presence in the global marketplace. The company has established new offices and expanded its distribution channels to support this increased global presence. ShoreTel is sponsoring and exhibiting at the IP'08 Expo in London, Oct. 1-2, Stand #649. Mark Swendsen, ShoreTel's managing director of EMEA, will also be speaking at the event. ShoreTel 8.1 is global product release that adds support for 7 new countries. The countries supported are Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, UK, and U.S. ShoreTel 8.1 product enhancements include Global support for ShoreTel's Unified Communications desktop client, VPN enabled phones to simplify remote end user deployments, the IP 230g which is a low cost gigabit enabled phone, and new switches with BRI and E1interfaces to round out the global product line. ShoreTel 8.1 includes language support for Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, English (U.S. and UK), French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish (Castilian and CALA), and Swedish. ShoreTel has recently opened new offices in the London metropolitan area (Maidenhead), and has a local presence in Munich, Madrid and Hong Kong. The company currently has 17 distributors and 97 Value Added Reseller Partners in EMEA, and seven distributors and 40 partners in Asia Pacific, including Aria Communications which was recently named a national distributor in Australia. ShoreTel also has distribution partners in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, as well as Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in the CALA region. Additional distribution expansion is underway in Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |