It appears that a Forbes story is singing the praises of ShoreTel’s VoIP offerings, compared to Cisco’s.
In a story headlined “ShoreTel: Cisco’s Nimble Foe,” Forbes writer Nikhil Hutheesing enthuses about ShoreTel’s “distributed software architecture hardware platform” that makes it “easier for IT administrators to handle since they can make changes to any location from one single point,” compared to Cisco’s “server-centric” system.
Hutheesing adds:
Cisco’s servers have to be set up in each division of a company. Because there is no central way to make changes to the system, managing the network is more costly and ensuring consistency across the network is more difficult.
The author also writes that, “ShoreTel’s network is also looking increasingly attractive to a growing number of companies because it is easier to install than many competing systems and because it requires less hardware equipment.”
Hutheesing cites the City of Oakland, Calif., as a former Cisco customer that jumped ship to ShoreTel.
Does Hutheesing make some good points, or is he merely trying to up ShoreTel’s stock?
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