Galway-based telecoms specialist Calimar is working in partnership with the Volco Ocean Race team to help reduce the cost of international calls for race team members, staff, and the internatinal press during the Galway stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race.
The Galway-based private company, established in February 2007, has installed VoSKY’s exchange gateway to enable the race team members and staff to make low-cost calls abroad via Skype during the 10 day stopover from May 23 to June 6.
Calimar has set up 118 voice points to cater for the hundreds of long-distance calls, which will be made from the event offices, the media centre, and the race village where the teams will stay during the two weeks.
Stopover organisers Lets Do It Galway will use VoSKY’s VIT1/E1 gateway, which enables medium to large sized organisations to take advantage of calls over the internet using Skype to benefit from cost savings of up to 90 per cent over traditional telephony.
Derrick May, CEO for Calimar, said: “The Volvo Ocean Race is one of the biggest sporting events to come to Ireland so we wanted to contribute and get involved as much as possible. As the Galway stopover event organisers, Let’s Do It Galway is a not-for-profit organisation we offered to project manage the telecoms infrastructure during the event for free.
“During the two-week stopover hundreds of yacht team members, supporting staff, and media will need to make international calls, so Let’s Do It Galway required a robust and reliable voice system which would not only be able to deliver high-quality voice calls, but would have the capacity to cope with the high volume of calls that will be made.
“Furthermore being not-for-profit, Let’s Do It Galway needed a cost-effective solution; VoSKY’s T1/E1 Exchange is the perfect solution to all these requirements as it will keep communications costs for the organisers low and will be able to support up to 30 concurrent Skype calls. With such a high profile event it’s imperative that things run smoothly; there is no doubt that the VoSKY Exchange will more than meet these expectations.”
David Tang, VP of global marketing for VoSKY, said: “By working closely with Calimar we have established a mutually beneficial partnership and their involvement in the Galway Volvo Ocean Race is enabling us to reach a wider audience and demonstrate the capabilities of our gateways. We are looking forward to being part of such a prestigious event.
Ian Robin, head of sales and marketing for Skype for Business, said: “ This is a great example of how Skype and its partners are able to create a valuable solution for a unique application.
“The Galway stopover promises to be action packed and we are pleased that Calimar have chosen to include Skype as part of their communications solution for the hundreds of staff, team members, and press that will be attending this event.”
