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Wick Hill appointed as distributor for Panasonic
September 2010 by Marc Jacob
Value added distributor, Wick Hill, has been appointed a distributor for Panasonic in the UK and Germany. Wick Hill will distribute Panasonic’s range of unified comms solutions for businesses, running over IP.
This move represents a significant further expansion into the convergence market by IP experts Wick Hill, whose portfolio now also includes telecoms and converged solutions suppliers such as Samsung, Gamma Telecom and Oak.
Panasonic’s Office Communications Solutions
Wick Hill will provide Panasonic’s range of office communications products, but will focus on the Panasonic Network Communications Platform (KX-NCP), a range of business communications solutions, primarily for SMEs. These allow companies to easily implement unified comms, providing innovative IP telephony features and functionality over both local office and broadband managed IP networks.
The KX-NCP range offers full business communications features, built-in advanced applications, and a choice of fixed, mobile and advanced touch screen IP terminals.
It makes it easy for staff to always stay in touch and improves team productivity by using applications integrated with the communications solution.
The range facilitates increased mobility and remote working and can improve responsiveness to customers through the use of integrated applications, which speed up and monitor customer service levels. It also provides the opportunity to reduce costs through converged communications for voice and data, using integrated SIP telephony services.
Growth of unified comms and convergence
Research company MZA reported that the total UC applications market in the UK was valued at GBP 178 million (end user level) for 2009 and would rise to GBP 402 million in 2014. MZA’s definition of unified comms was ‘Conferencing and Messaging.’ Included in this were web, video and audio conferencing, as well as voice mail, unified messaging and enterprise instant messaging.
