Today, financial services firms must be able to provide high-quality services to employees, partners, and customers while maintaining low operational costs. Offering the combined benefits of cost savings, a single network, and ease of use, Voice over IP (VoIP) and Unified Communications (UC) solutions provide an innovative way to overcome many of these critical challenges.

Brocade enables financial services firms to unlock the value of converged networks with an extensive family of VoIP and UC-ready networking solutions that provide uninterrupted service quality, reliability, and security for IP-based phones, video, and converged desktop applications.

In addition, Brocade partners with best-in-class solution providers to deliver validated, highly reliable, and interoperable solutions that scale seamlessly to meet the strict requirements of financial services firms—without adding unnecessary cost or complexity to the network.

Brocade converged networking solutions provide:

• Optimized wired/wireless networking infrastructure for UC and VoIP
• Validated joint VoIP and UC solutions with Avaya, ShoreTel, and Microsoft
• End-to-end network security with McAfee, IBM ISS, and Symantec
• PoE/PoE+ on every port, delivering power to IP-based phones and other devices

Brocade VoIP-ready networking solutions provide many benefits. In particular, they enable financial services firms to:

• Improve communications and reduce operational costs through unified wired/wireless communications
• Leverage scalable network edge capacity for Wireless LANs (WLANs) to support future growth while protecting existing IT investments
• Optimize performance while minimizing power and deployment costs
• Utilize PoE/PoE+, reducing the need for phone power supplies at users' desks
• Maximize network security with intrusion detection capabilities across both wireless and wired networks

Learn more about Brocade networking solutions for VoIP and Unified Communications.