Network Equipment Technologies announced that its UX Series with Session Border Controller, a qualified gateway for Microsoft Lync Server 2010, is now certified to work with AAPT's SIP trunking service. AAPT is 100% owned by Telecom New Zealand. The company's SIP voice service is a SIP trunking solution, allowing customers with an IP-enabled PBX or SIP gateway device to connect to AAPT via Ethernet and have their telephony traffic carried via IP utilizing SIP, providing a far more scaleable alternative to traditional ISDN.

Qualification testing of NET's UX Series with AAPT's SIP trunking was performed through a collaborative effort between AAPT's interoperability team and NET. Customers seeking to integrate legacy PBX and IP-PBX solutions and deploying Microsoft's Lync Server 2010 can now use NET's UX Series as the enterprise SBC and gateway for the termination of AAPT's SIP trunking services and/or co-located E1 ISDN services. This solution provides enterprise customers with the flexibility and cost-savings associated with SIP trunking combined with the productivity gains of unified communications on the Microsoft Lync 2010 platform.

The UX Series, in an enterprise-SBC role, provides high-performance VoIP communications for enterprise Microsoft Lync deployments with AAPT. The UX Series routes SIP sessions; converts signaling and media between Microsoft Lync and the AAPT SIP trunk; and acts as a demarcation device between the enterprise network and the AAPT network for establishing a reliable communication service.