Barrett Steel, the independent steel stockholder in the UK, has entered into a GBP 3.5M five-year agreement with Azzurri Communications to integrate the IP telephony, WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi for Barrett Steelâs headquarters and regional businesses using Azzurriâs ICON Connect platform. Barrettâs Steel is consolidating their voice and data networks with an aim to simplify the management of telecommunications. The new network improves service levels and bandwidth and uses a new Mitel IP telephony platform with 700 extensions covering Barrettâs Steelâs 30 UK sites.
James Barrett, group managing director at Barrett Steel explains: âWe wanted a long-term partner that could deliver all of our networking needs within one contractual framework. With Azzurri, we are able to bring together our entire communications estate under one roof, safe in the knowledge that the continued evaluation of our business processes means weâll benefit from the most cost-effective and competitive IT & telecoms strategy.â?
As part of the contract, Azzurri will support the migration of legacy voice services to a SIP solution based on a highly resilient Mitel IP telephony platform. The wide area network will connect to office sites using a mix of Ethernet, Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) and business-grade ADSL. Azzurri will also implement a new local area network with Wi-Fi support.
