ShoreTel

ShoreTel is the brand name of a Sunnyvale, CA based provider of commercial, closed-source VOIP solutions. Current implementations of ShoreTel systems include telephone handsets, as well as voicemail servers, switching hardware, analog phone outputs, and other telecommunications-related hardware and software. ShoreTel's Unified Communication solution is based on a distributed architecture with a single image for administration. While traditional TDM systems or competitor VOIP solutions require 2N redundancy ShoreTel accomplishes redundancy at N+1 by balancing the load on their voice appliances. Their ShoreGear appliances to not have any spinning media or hard drive. The ShoreGear appliance runs on the mission critical operating system called VX works and flash memory. The distributed architecture is uniquely built with no single point of failure.Fact|date=September 2008

External links

* [http://www.shoretel.com/ ShoreTel] home page
* http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20080722/AQTU07822072008-1.htmlShoreTel named the best overall VOIP provider for the 5th year in a row by Nemertes Independent Research.