Altura Wins $6.5 Million Contract from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2003 Altura Communication Solutions, a leading nationwide provider of communications networks and services, has been awarded a seven-year, $6.5 million contract from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Coordinates: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is New Hampshire's only academic medical center and is headquartered on a 225-acre campus in the heart of the Upper Connecticut River Valley, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. , Lebanon, N.H., to provide advanced telecommunications applications, services and support. Altura will migrate the medical center's existing Fujitsu 9600 PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). network to Avaya Enterprise Class IP Solutions (ECLIPS ECLIPS Enterprise Class Internet Protocol Solutions (Avaya Inc.) ECLIPS Experimental Cloud Lidar Pilot Study ECLIPS Enhanced Clearline Proposal System (Sprint) ECLIPS Expanded Calculator Link Processing System ), including Avaya MultiVantage(TM) Software, enabling the medical center to reduce communication costs, enhance productivity and implement advanced applications. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, named one of the top hospitals in the country for its record of excellence in patient care and operational efficiency, has been an Altura client for 12 years. The medical center decided to award the contract to Altura because of its outstanding service, technology and applications, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Peter Johnson Peter Johnson (born 1940[1]), is a Birkenhead based business man and football investor. The son of a butcher, Johnson helped build the family business into Park Foods, the leading supplier of Christmas hampers in the early 1990's. , senior vice president, information services See Information Systems. . "Altura gives us the flexibility to transition to new technologies at our own pace. We will gradually replace our 14 F9600s with Avaya MultiVantage Software, Avaya Media Servers and Media Gateways, and add advanced applications such as IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. , thus mitigating the convergence risk while maximizing our return on investment," Johnson said. "To support our mission-critical operations, we wanted to partner with an organization dedicated to providing highly reliable products, comprehensive solutions and applications, and that is easy to do business with. Altura was the only solutions provider that met our criteria." "Our partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock confirms several traits that differentiate Altura, including our industry leading service, our unique interoperability software solution with Avaya, our focus on customers being more efficient and productive, and our understanding of the customer needs in the healthcare market," said Bob Blazek, Altura's chief executive officer. Altura and Avaya have entered into a technology, sales and service agreement under which Avaya is developing interoperability software that will allow Altura customers to transition to Avaya MultiVantage Software, Avaya Media Servers and Avaya Media Gateways from their Fujitsu 9600 networks. Altura currently supports more than 6,000 Fujitsu communication systems in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and will continue to do so, while at the same time offering the opportunity for its customers to migrate to advanced applications, including IP telephony. IP telephony enables voice and data collaboration See data conferencing. over a converged IP, or packet-based, network. IP telephony can help companies reduce costs and enhance productivity through greater mobility and next generation, converged applications. For example, with IP telephony, key workplace tools, such as voicemail, email, faxes and contact databases, all can be accessed and managed from any device - such as a personal digital assistant or a laptop. About Altura Communication Solutions Headquartered in Anaheim, Calif., Altura Communication Solutions (www.alturacs.com) sells and services a variety of products, including voice switching systems, voice messaging systems, contact centers, voice conferencing systems, network and system management tools and broadband data communications products. The company has nationwide service capabilities and an enterprise customer base of more than 2,000 companies in the financial, education, healthcare and government markets. It is owned by Platinum Equity. About Platinum Equity Platinum Equity (www.peh.com) is a global acquisition firm specializing in the strategic operation of mission-critical companies according to a unique M&A&O(SM) model of value creation. Since its founding in 1995, Platinum has completed over 40 privately funded transactions, leveraging a multi-billion dollar revenue base derived from the continued growth of its portfolio. With an established infrastructure in North America, Europe, Asia and South America, Platinum employs a workforce of more than 15,000 serving over 600,000 customer sites worldwide. About Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC DHMC Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center DHMC Denver Health Medical Center DHMC Digital Human Modeling Conference (Society of Automotive Engineers) ) is an integrated academic medical center located on a 225-acre campus in the heart of New Hampshire's Upper Connecticut River Valley The Connecticut River Valley stretches from the New Hampshire and Quebec border to Long Island Sound on the Connecticut coast. Orographically, the Connecticut River Valley stretches beyond the floodplain to encompass some towns. in Lebanon. DHMC comprises Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (a 396-bed tertiary care tertiary care Managed care The most specialized health care, administered to Pts with complex diseases who may require high-risk pharmacologic regimens, surgical procedures, or high-cost high-tech resources; TC is provided in 'tertiary care centers', often hospital), the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic (a network of more than 900 primary and specialty care physicians located throughout New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). and Vermont), Dartmouth Medical School Dartmouth Medical School is the medical school of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire. The school is closely affiliated with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in neighboring Lebanon, New Hampshire. and the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center Memorial Hospital in White River Junction, Vt. About Avaya Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than one million businesses around the world, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500. A world leader in secure and reliable Internet Protocol (IP) telephony systems, communications software applications and services, Avaya is driving the convergence of voice and data applications across IT networks enabling businesses large and small to leverage existing and new networks to enhance value, improve productivity and gain competitive advantage. For more information visit the Avaya website: http://www.avaya.com. |
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