Avaya GlobalConnect, a provider of business communications applications, systems and services, and OKI Electric Industry, an IP communication solution company in Japan have announced a strategic partnership in India, to develop IP enabled ’value for money’ voice solutions for small and medium enterprises.

The two companies have jointly launched a product called IPstage EX100 that provides the basic PBX features and network interfaces. The IPstage SX/MX/EX will be primarily positioned towards the low and medium end SME market and will target the government, public sector undertakings and Indian corporates looking for basic telephony functionality with IP compatibility.

IPstage EX100 is a high performance IP-PBX that claims to offer high voice quality and various features ranging from conventional PBX systems, to full IP systems, seamlessly. When the IPstage EX100 is deployed as a conventional PBX with existing analog phones, it can be up-graded to IP-PBX when a LAN environment becomes available.

"We have identified Avaya GlobalConnect as a key strategic partner for OKI for basic telephony functionalities with IP compatibility," said Masatoshi Saito, VP, IP Systems Company, OKI Electric Industry. "We believe this relationship will extend our competency in IP telephony to the SME market in India."