ShorTel Selected to Improve Communication Systems in Maui

ShorTel announced that the County of Maui, Hawaii has selected them to complete their unified communications needs. Once the project is completed, ShorTel will serve 1,600 employees across 65 sites. This will save the county 20% per year in their telecommunications costs. The County of Maui, consisting of the islands of Maui, Molokai and Lanai, needed an easy-to-use, reliable, and scalable communications solution that could be implemented quickly and easily across multiple sites. “The Hawaiian Islands are among the most remote in the world – we have limited network connectivity on our islands and to the mainland, so resiliency was a huge priority in our vendor selection,” said Bill Conant, section head of technology operation services, IT services division, County of Maui. “ShoreTel addresses this need with N+1 resiliency and the ability to support services during partial network outages. We’ve already successfully tested this when we had to re-direct services during a recent telephone company outage.”