Shoretel - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Mitel drops ShoreTel bid

  Customers of ShoreTel phones and unified communications gear can stop worrying that their lives might get complicated by a merger between the company and its rival Mitel.

• Mitel takes aim at Avaya with ShoreTel bid

  Anyone thinking about signing a deal with ShoreTel for unified communications gear might want to take a closer look now that Mitel has made public its hopes to buy the company.

• UPDATED: ShoreTel rejects telephony vendor Mitel's bids

  ShoreTel has rejected both Mitel Networks' first and a subsequent higher bid, declaring it "significantly undervalued" the company.

• Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics disagree...over the cloud

  When the Brooklyn Nets traveled to Boston to play the Celtics last week, it became apparent that the two organizations disagreed about something - the cloud.

• ShoreTel links Android phones to corporate PBXs

  Enterprise IT groups can now tie in <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>-based mobile devices to corporate directories and IP PBXs, with the latest update by ShoreTel to its mobility software.

• Cooma-Monaro Shire Council sheds Telstra links, saves $20,000

  Cooma-Monaro Shire Council has shaved close to $20,000 a year off its communications costs with a new unified communications (UC) system.
  

Whitepapers about Shoretel

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  How To Keep UCC Costs Down As Complexity Grows

  Nemertes has conducted research to analyse real-world cost data, including capital, implementation, and operational costs. The research helps companies compare how overall costs change based on the provider selected. Most important, it includes ongoing operational costs, which are hard to factor into a business case until the IT staff actually must manage the provider in question. This paper documents those costs and provides the three different sample outputs from a cost model developed by Nemertes, populated with the research data.