Northern Maine Development Commission Saves $800 Per Month with Whaleback Systems' CrystalBlue Voice™ Service
Northern Maine Development Commission, based in Caribou Maine, has deployed a new business telephony solution from Whaleback Systems to connect its headquarters with two satellite offices located 50 miles away. Using CrystalBlue Voice™, the NMDC has significantly reduced phone expenses while gaining enhanced voice capabilities. The organization is also taking advantage of Whaleback OrcaMeeting for web and audio conferencing and OrcaFax, an e-fax service.
Portsmouth, NH, October 06, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Whaleback Systems™ (www.whalebacksystems.com) today announced that the Northern Maine Development Commission has deployed its managed voice service to connect its headquarters with two satellite offices located 50 miles away. Using CrystalBlue Voice™, the NMDC has significantly reduced phone expenses while gaining enhanced voice capabilities. The organization is also taking advantage of complementary Whaleback services such as OrcaMeeting and OrcaFax to enhance employee productivity.
Based in Caribou, Maine, the NMDC provides regional community planning and economic development resources across northern Maine. After facing poor call quality from its previous voice over IP (VoIP) solution, the commission discovered that CrystalBlue Voice could provide a stable, high quality VoIP service to connect its remote offices and communicate with its members. With this service, the NMDC has gained dedicated broadband access and fully featured voice services. The commission’s executive team was pleased to discover that CrystalBlue Voice could save them an average of $800 per month while increasing call fidelity and reliability.
“We’ve gained outstanding voice quality, plus access to productivity tools that are usually only accessible to large enterprises,” said NMDC Executive Director Robert P. Clark. “And since Whaleback manages the quality and reliability of the service centrally, we no longer have to pay a telephony vendor hundreds of dollars each month to troubleshoot network problems. This enhanced communication infrastructure empowers us to better serve our members throughout the region.”
In addition to enhanced voice features such as call forwarding, conferencing, desktop faxing, and unified messaging, the NMDC is using OrcaFax desktop fax service and OrcaMeeting. With OrcaFax, NMDC staff can access voice mail, email, and fax messages, all from their email in-box to minimize the cost and hassle of dialing in to the phone system when they’re on the road. Using OrcaMeeting, employees can easily schedule web and audio conferencing to minimize travel time.
“This deployment serves as a prime example of how a managed service like our CrystalBlue Voice can offer more predictable and consistent quality than a hosted VoIP option,” said David Zwicker of Whaleback Systems. “Even in the most northern reaches of the country, call quality should be bullet proof, which means the elimination of echo, static, garbled speech, one way audio, dropped calls and service disruptions. This can only be achieved with a premise-based solution that can monitor and manage service quality on an end-to-end basis.”
About the Northern Maine Development Commission
Northern Maine Development Commission is a membership organization comprised of participating communities and counties in the Northern Maine Economic Development District. The NMDC provides federal and state services at the regional and local levels, is the regional EDA planning and management entity, and serves as the lead agency for the USDA Aroostook County Empowerment Zone.
The NMDC will continue its efforts to expand, diversify, and attract business and industry in the region. The commission also will continue its outreach to northern Maine communities and its efforts to work with those communities to create the capacity needed to support development.
About Whaleback Systems
Whaleback Systems is a Managed Voice Provider and the pioneering developer of the first business phone solution built from the ground up for broadband. Unlike traditional systems, the Whaleback CrystalBlue Voice Service is 100 percent premises-based and software-driven. It includes the only IP PBX with Key System Unit features and Road Warrior Functionality. Whaleback's CrystalBlue Voice Service offers flexible fixed rate national and international calling packages that provide affordability and predictability to a customer’s monthly phone bill - making the most advanced technology immediately affordable for companies that need between 5 and 500 phone stations. The Whaleback service is available through partnerships with channel partners and VARs. Whaleback customers include law firms, real estate agencies, financial services firms, homebuilders, restaurants, resorts, advertising and public relations agencies.
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Based in Caribou, Maine, the NMDC provides regional community planning and economic development resources across northern Maine. After facing poor call quality from its previous voice over IP (VoIP) solution, the commission discovered that CrystalBlue Voice could provide a stable, high quality VoIP service to connect its remote offices and communicate with its members. With this service, the NMDC has gained dedicated broadband access and fully featured voice services. The commission’s executive team was pleased to discover that CrystalBlue Voice could save them an average of $800 per month while increasing call fidelity and reliability.
“We’ve gained outstanding voice quality, plus access to productivity tools that are usually only accessible to large enterprises,” said NMDC Executive Director Robert P. Clark. “And since Whaleback manages the quality and reliability of the service centrally, we no longer have to pay a telephony vendor hundreds of dollars each month to troubleshoot network problems. This enhanced communication infrastructure empowers us to better serve our members throughout the region.”
In addition to enhanced voice features such as call forwarding, conferencing, desktop faxing, and unified messaging, the NMDC is using OrcaFax desktop fax service and OrcaMeeting. With OrcaFax, NMDC staff can access voice mail, email, and fax messages, all from their email in-box to minimize the cost and hassle of dialing in to the phone system when they’re on the road. Using OrcaMeeting, employees can easily schedule web and audio conferencing to minimize travel time.
“This deployment serves as a prime example of how a managed service like our CrystalBlue Voice can offer more predictable and consistent quality than a hosted VoIP option,” said David Zwicker of Whaleback Systems. “Even in the most northern reaches of the country, call quality should be bullet proof, which means the elimination of echo, static, garbled speech, one way audio, dropped calls and service disruptions. This can only be achieved with a premise-based solution that can monitor and manage service quality on an end-to-end basis.”
About the Northern Maine Development Commission
Northern Maine Development Commission is a membership organization comprised of participating communities and counties in the Northern Maine Economic Development District. The NMDC provides federal and state services at the regional and local levels, is the regional EDA planning and management entity, and serves as the lead agency for the USDA Aroostook County Empowerment Zone.
The NMDC will continue its efforts to expand, diversify, and attract business and industry in the region. The commission also will continue its outreach to northern Maine communities and its efforts to work with those communities to create the capacity needed to support development.
About Whaleback Systems
Whaleback Systems is a Managed Voice Provider and the pioneering developer of the first business phone solution built from the ground up for broadband. Unlike traditional systems, the Whaleback CrystalBlue Voice Service is 100 percent premises-based and software-driven. It includes the only IP PBX with Key System Unit features and Road Warrior Functionality. Whaleback's CrystalBlue Voice Service offers flexible fixed rate national and international calling packages that provide affordability and predictability to a customer’s monthly phone bill - making the most advanced technology immediately affordable for companies that need between 5 and 500 phone stations. The Whaleback service is available through partnerships with channel partners and VARs. Whaleback customers include law firms, real estate agencies, financial services firms, homebuilders, restaurants, resorts, advertising and public relations agencies.
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www.whalebacksystems.com
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617-861-3652
ahickey@elevatecom.com
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Northern Maine Development Commission Saves $800 per Month with CrystalBlue Voice™ Service
Whaleback Systems™ today announced that the Northern Maine Development Commission has deployed its managed voice service to connect its headquarters in Caribou Maine with two satellite offices located 50 miles away.
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