Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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York Telecom Joins Nortel Gov't Team

York Telecom will provide integration, maintenance and onsite support services as part of the Nortel Government Solutions team, recently confirmed as the winner of the 10-year, $300 million Telephone Systems Replacement Project (TSRP) award from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

The SSA decided it needed a new, converged voice and data network to handle what it believes will be an increase in new users, including retiring baby boomers. The award calls for replacement of existing telephone systems with VoIP in nearly 1,600 SSA locations with unified messaging and interactive voice-response capabilities. This is expected to be the largest Federal Government VoIP deployment to date and one of the largest in the world.

N.J.-based York Telecom provides visual communication services and solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, the federal government, and state and local governments. The company says it offers total managed conferencing services; media services; system consulting; and integration and maintenance services for applications including video-conferencing, presentation systems, streaming media, telemedicine and distance training.

"This is an exciting project for us given the continued migration toward total convergence that SSA is undertaking," says Ken Scaturro, York Telecom's senior vice president/Global Sales and Business Development. "We will work closely with Nortel Government Solutions and the rest of the team, leveraging our 15-plus years of experience and support for SSA's video-conferencing, distance learning and audio digital recording to help ensure a successful outcome."

In addition to York Telecom, the Nortel Government Solutions team includes General Dynamics, Black Box Network Services, Shared Technologies, AT&T, High Wire Networks, NetIQ and Pal-Tech.

In related federal-contract news, high-capacity microwave fixed wireless broadband provider won a five-year U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70 contract (GS- 35F-0310U) to provide government agencies with IT and telecom products and professional services.

"We are excited to be awarded the GSA Schedule contract. We feel it's an important vote of confidence from the U.S. government for Trango as a trusted vendor," says Zdrakvo Divjak, Trango's president and CEO. "This milestone provides our current and new government customers a streamlined process to purchase Trango's world-class licensed and unlicensed microwave communications equipment. We are committed to strengthening our government channel, and now agencies at the federal, state, local and municipal levels can access our equipment with preferred pricing, faster acquisition times and lower administrative costs."

The company says its new government customers can access and order Trango products online through the GSA Web sites. Among the products that will be available through the GSA Schedule will be point-to-point licensed and unlicensed microwave wireless backhaul equipment, including the licensed microwave wireless backhaul, TrangoLINK Gigar; point-to- multipoint broadband wireless internet access solutions; wireless IP video transmission equipment; and analog video and CCTV wireless transmission systems.