Teltronics, Inc. Collaborates With GE Security to Help Improve Communication and Security for Educational Facilities
Teltronics Cerato(R) IP voice communications platform offers productivity
enhancing features, applications and a clear and cost-effective migration
path to Voice over Internet Telephony (VoIP) for GE Security's StarCall(TM)
intercommunication & timekeeping solution
SARASOTA, Fla., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Teltronics, Inc. (OTC
Bulletin Board: TELT), a leading supplier of voice and data communication
solutions and services, today announces it was selected by GE Security,
Inc., a business of GE Enterprises Solutions (NYSE: GE), to provide
StarCall iPLUS, a powerful IP-based, SIP-compliant multimedia platform and
the next generation of its StarCall intercommunication and timekeeping
solution.
GE Security will private label the Teltronics Cerato IP system to give
customers a fully integrated, Linux-based solution created to protect
customers' communications investment, reduce communications costs and
improve productivity through advanced applications. GE Security plans to
distribute the new offering, StarCall iPLUS, through its sound and
communications partners.
Teltronics' Ewen Cameron states, "This relationship not only provides
an extra level of comfort in support of on-site safety for educational
institutions but increases productivity and efficiency -- saving time and
money. We believe that Teltronics' four decades of communications industry
experience and the strength and reliability found in our Cerato voice
communications solutions provide GE Security's StarCall iPLUS a new level
of sophistication and convenience to accommodate the required needs in a
school setting."
"Collaboration with Teltronics has resulted in our StarCall iPLUS
offering -- the best-in-class solution for improving communications within
educational facilities," declares Steve Hein, general manager, fire and
life safety products, GE Security. "Teltronics' industry knowledge and
commitment to working with us has resulted in a solid, non-proprietary
application that is fully integrated with our StarCall product."
The StarCall iPLUS empowers communications and security processes at
educational institutions with a package of cost-effective features designed
to maximize efficiency, including robust intercom and paging, reliable
timekeeping control, flexible program source distribution, powerful event
processing, intuitive software tools and a fully integrated mass
communication system. With an additional suite of productivity-enhancing
offerings such as in-class phones, unified messaging, absence reporting,
emergency reporting, call routing control, homework hotline, mass recall
and mass notification, StarCall iPLUS enhances the learning experience and
fosters a collaborative school environment for school staff, parents and
students.
About Teltronics:
Teltronics, Inc. is a leading, global provider of innovative
communications solutions that enable our customers to increase revenues,
decrease costs and improve productivity. The Company designs, develops and
manufactures electronic equipment and applications software systems that
enhance the performance of communications networks. Teltronics develops
VoIP and digital voice communications platforms and software and contact
center solutions for small-to-large size businesses and government
facilities. Teltronics is also recognized as a leading provider of network
management solutions enabling enterprises and service providers to
effectively monitor and maintain voice and data networks. All products are
manufactured in an ISO 9001:2000 certified factory and the Company serves
as a contract manufacturing partner to customers nationwide. Further
information regarding Teltronics is available at the web site,
http://www.teltronics.com .
About GE's Security Business
GE Security, Inc., a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of the General
Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is a leading supplier of security and life
safety technologies, with operations in more than 35 countries and $1.8
billion in annual sales. GE Security offers one of the industry's broadest
product portfolios, including access control, explosives and narcotics
detection, fire detection, intrusion, key management and video
surveillance. GE Security's products are used to protect people and
property across a wide range of industries, including aviation, banking and
finance, education, government and military, healthcare, law enforcement,
residential, retail, stadiums and event venues, and transportation.
GE Security was honored with Frost & Sullivan's 2008 North American
Video Surveillance Solutions Company of the Year Award for its industry
leading video portfolio and integration strategy vision and execution. For
more information about GE Security, please visit http://www.gesecurity.com .
GE Security, making the world safer.
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