Mitel and Foundry Networks take up residence at the Grand Hyatt Resorts in Qatar

Qtel, Qatar's incumbent PTT and prime provider of Private Automated Branch Exchange (PABX) solutions in Qatar, sub-contracted the project to Seiat Systems, a Mitel Gold Solution Provider, to deploy a Mitel 3300 IP Communications Platform (ICP). Seiat will also be providing the Foundry Networks data-infrastructure based on Foundry's FastIron® SuperX™ and FastIron Edge Switch Power over Ethernet (PoE) family.

The Grand Hyatt's 56 luxurious villa residences are scheduled to be IP-ready this December, coinciding with the commencement of the 15th Asian Games to be held in Doha with participants from more than 40 Asian countries across the Middle East and Asia.

Upon completion of the entire Grand Hyatt Resorts complex, expected in 2008, the all-IP solution will support more than 1,500 end-users with further expansion possibilities of up to 2,000 users in the complex.

'I am delighted that the Grand Hyatt Resorts has selected Mitel's IP solutions.The Grand Hyatt Resorts in Qatar follows on our recent successes in the region, such as with Etisalat (UAE) and Jeddah Islamic Port (Saudi Arabia). This is another addition to our hospitality services customer base, following our recent deployment at the five-star Al Murooj Rotana located in Dubai. We would also like to commend our channel partner, Seiat Systems, for providing us with the regional expertise. Together we present compelling IP communications solutions to progressive enterprises wanting to take advantage of the cost-effective, scalable and highly flexible platforms that Mitel's IP solutions offer,'

said Hisham Amili, Mitel GM, GCC.

'The Grand Hyatt Resorts is a milestone for Seiat and together with Mitel, we are focused on delivering customer driven communication solutions,' said Rajeev G. Krishnan, Seiat Systems GM.

'The collaboration between Foundry and Mitel provide customers best-of-breed IP telephony and networking solutions that are secure and interoperable, without locking them into expensive proprietary systems,' said Val Oliva, director of product management for Foundry Networks. 'The Grand Hyatt Resorts is a bellwether in their industry, leveraging the benefits of a standards-based, high-performance converged infrastructure to increase their business efficiencies and to reduce ongoing networking costs. We are pleased to be partnering with Mitel to deliver this advanced networking solution.'

The FastIron SuperX Layer 2/3 compact modular switch reinforces Foundry's leadership in the growing PoE, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) markets. The FastIron SuperX delivers a new level of networking flexibility providing a complete networking solution from edge to core with wire-speed performance for high-density PoE, GbE and 10GbE system configurations and support for scalable layer 2/3 services, including Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) routing and IP multicast. With the capability to scale to one million BGP routes in software and 256,000 routes in hardware, the FastIron SuperX offers tremendous scalability in a small and flexible form factor, addressing the needs of a wide range of customers, including service providers. Its advanced quality of service design and standards-based support for POE make the FastIron SuperX an ideal convergence platform for the wiring closet providing a powerful layer 2/3 solution for integrating voice, data and video onto a common IP network.