Mitel Freedom Architecture Enables Scalable and Seamless Communications Across the Bears Organization

PHOENIX, June 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mitel® (Nasdaq:MITL), a leading provider of unified communications and collaboration (UCC) software solutions, today announced that the Chicago Bears have selected Mitel’s Freedom architecture to enable collaboration and communications across the entire organization. The solution provides seamless unified communications between multiple offices and staff members working remotely or traveling between locations. A video of Chicago Bears staff discussing the deployment can be viewed at http://www.mitel.tv/videos/CUSTOMER_EXPERIENCE_CHICAGO_BEARS_NA read more…

A white paper from CommScope describes the benefits of properly cabling a building or facility for the support of future wireless technologies. The paper is entitled “In-Building Wireless Coverage and the Case for Pre-Wiring with CommScope’s Wired for Wireless Solution.” CommScope has trademarked the term “Wired for Wireless,” as it is the name of a product line from the company. read more…

Business mobility is on the rise as SMBs and enterprises move towards a mobile workforce to enable a more productive and efficient environment.

Besides utilizing a smartphone for work, the best device professional can use for business mobility is a tablet. Mitel, a provider of unified communications (UC) software solutions announced extension of its enterprise grade unified communications capabilities to the recently launched Blackberry PlayBook tablet. read more…

Canadian Blood Services, a not-for-profit, charitable organization that supplies about a million units of blood to over 700 hospitals throughout Canada, has selected a Mitel solution based on the Mitel Freedom architecture to connect mobile employees and help manage organizational growth and efficiencies. read more…

Digital Monitoring Products (DMP) has added T-Mobile® as a new carrier option for its SecureCom Wireless cellular service. SecureCom Wireless was launched in 2008 to provide dealers with the cellular services needed to create a reliable, dedicated, wireless path for the transmission of alarm signals. The availability of T-Mobile gives dealers added flexibility to choose the best cellular carrier and plan to meet the needs of their customers. read more…

Here’s the latest breakdown review of the more commonly used emergency alert systems. Deploying multiple modes will help to ensure the strengths of one solution compensate for the weaknesses of others. Many of these solutions can now be linked with each other so messages can reach more individuals on or near a campus, as well as other stakeholders, such as family members. Be certain to test the systems regularly, and account for the hearing and sight impaired.

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Check with your cell providers to make sure they aren’t blocking your SMS/text alerts.

It appears that major, regional and independent carriers (like Sprint, Verizon, regional carriers and pre-paid providers), appear to be flagging mass notification messages as potential spam, or “alert” (short code) messages, and either disabling (blocking), delaying or denying SMS/text transmissions to some or all of their cellular subscribers. These are the folks who are subscribing to your mass warning alert messaging system.

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Mitel (Nasdaq:MITL), a leading provider of unified communications (UC) software solutions, today announced it has been ranked the number two software provider for Canadian ICT Companies in the 2011 Edition of the Branham300, a listing of Canada’s ICT industry leaders, as ranked by revenues.
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency has certified that Telenet VoiP has fulfilled the requirements of the Toxic Substances Control Act Section 402, and has received certification to conduct lead-based paint renovation, repair, and painting activities pursuant to 40 CFR Part 745.89.

The covered facilities include residential, public or commercial  buildings where children under age six are present on a regular basis as well as all rental housing.

Adoption in verticals outside of gov’t and schools beginning to take place.

At last year’s ASIS conference, a hot topic of discussion was making the workplace safe. There was talk about guns in the work environment and how to screen for that. And, said Mike Madden, national sales manager for Gamewell-FCI, there was a “sense of urgency” among large corporate clients about mass notification and emergency communications.

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