(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 17, 2008 ) Hong Kong – Datacraft is pushing back the frontier of unified communications with a new offering that provides a fully integrated solution for the industry’s top-of-the-range visual communications vendors into standard networking platforms.

Businesses can now enjoy the benefits of stunning quality visual communications on a smooth, fully integrated communication platform based on solutions from acknowledged leaders in their field – such as Cisco, Microsoft, Tandberg and Radvision – without having to make any compromises for the sake of interoperability.

The visual communications arena will benefit immensely from this new integration capability. Technology has until now failed to progress and adopt visual communications as a channel due mainly to the complexities of integrating high-quality specialist video-conferencing vendor solutions into the larger networking systems, which has resulted in unsatisfactory audio and visual quality.

Datacraft has worked hard with vendors to resolve this concern and now high-definition visual communications products from Tandberg can be seamlessly integrated with Radvision multi-point conferencing solutions and Microsoft instant messaging platforms, into advanced Cisco networking systems. The integration solutions can even combine high-end Cisco Telepresence solutions with any existing visual communication platforms, which can further maximise return on investment.

With businesses counting every penny and cutting back on travel costs in the current financial climate, these advances in the delivery of high-quality, sharp definition audio and visual conferencing solutions couldn’t have come at a better time.

“Visual communication has come of age,” said Francis Pang, General Manager for Datacraft, Hong Kong. “We are thrilled to be leading in the development of this exciting trend. Datacraft’s seamless integration results in the most advanced level of visual communications ever seen on a global scale. Our customers have reported that the quality is so refined it seems as though people who are oceans apart are just in the next room. This has huge implications for companies looking to cut costs on business travel, and aiming to reduce their carbon footprint.”

Business analysts Gartner forecast that unified communications will feature in the Top 5 Strategic areas for technology in 2009. With Asia on the cusp of this emerging trend, Datacraft is unique in offering this multi-vendor integration facility. It has the ability to quickly grasp the requirements of each individual customer’s needs from a vast and varied customer base to devise a complete, integrated solution. The tailor-made Datacraft solutions can cater to a business’s operational requirements and bolster productivity by improving links with an increasingly mobile workforce through technologies such as instant messaging (IM), and Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) as well as maximise the value of their IT investment.

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About Datacraft
Datacraft is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a US$4.5 billion leading global IT solutions and services provider. Datacraft operates in over 50 offices across 13 Asia Pacific countries. We help clients plan, build, support, manage, improve and innovate their IT infrastructures. Datacraft combines an expertise in networking, security, data centre, storage, Microsoft solutions and contact centre technologies, with advanced skills in consulting, integration, training and managed services to craft IT solutions for businesses. For more information, please visit www.datacraft-asia.com.

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