Announcing Cisco UC500 support for the QuesCom GSM Gateway

The Cisco SBCS Team and the QuesCom Product Team is proud to announce the integration between UC 500 and QuesCom's GSM Gateway series.

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The integration with the QuesCom 200 gateway leverages the GSM and SMS gateway capabilities of the QuesCom device, to allow for low cost cellular calls from the UC 500 PBX users.

The QuesCom 200 embeds 2 GSM channels enabling 2 simultaneous calls to GSM phones. The QuesCom 200 is also directly connected to IP network & users' PC enabling them to send and receive SMS from a PC.

Benefits include:

  One Number for savings and control

Do fixed-to-mobile calls usually constitute 35% to 55% of your company’s telecom bill?
Is your company multi-sited?
Are your corporate cell phones costing you more and more because of roaming?

Costs of calls to mobile phones are higher than for calls to fixed phones. This often represents more than 50% of corporate communications. The QuesCom equipment is an appliance that integrates the enterprise’s SIM cards. The cost of each call placed from a fixed phone to a mobile phone is reduced. If the enterprise has a corporate fleet price plan, savings are even more significant. Calls from the office to the workforce’s mobile phones are free of charge. So are call transfers to corporate mobile phones. The enterprise optimizes its telecom budget.

 One Number for voice and fax

The solution allows employees to be reached at any time and have a personal fax, accessible with e-mail wherever they are. Only One Number needs to be displayed on your business card! Direct line becomes your One Number, to receive and send your calls and faxes, without requiring a new phone line.

You receive and send fax by e-mail. QuesCom solution ensures confidentiality of documents and enables you to manage fax remotely. After sending a fax, an acknowledgement is received by email in your inbox.

 One Number for mobility and convergence

One Number delivers optimal availability for fixed and mobile calls. The solution enables one to be reachable at any time with a single number. Employees can benefit from the corporate features on their mobile phones. The company is making cost savings thanks to convergence. Mobile phones become a mobile extension of the UC500.

The solution also delivers SMS capacity. Either by sending individual SMS from applications like Microsoft Outlook, or linking the SMS sending with a special alert.

For instance if there is an alarm on a network monitoring tool, the administrator can receive automatically an SMS with error description. Business applications are also possible, such as sending tracking number information to customers for a transportation company.