PITTSBURGH – Pioneer Medical Group (PMG) in Cerritos, CA has chosen Black Box Network Services, a provider of voice communications, data infrastructure , and product solutions, to implement and maintain a communications solution including updating the organization’s WAN infrastructure and deploying a Cisco unified communications platform.

PMG officials said the goal was to replace their legacy infrastructure and system with several goals in mind. Officials said the group wanted a solution that was easy to use and able to be deployed with minimal configuration and simplified network management.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager will replace PMG’s ten year old PBX system and will give the organization new unified communications functionality with Cisco Unified Messaging, Cisco Unified Presence, and Cisco IP Communicator deployment. Black Box Network Services will replace the existing LAN infrastructure with Cisco switches that are PoE and QoS capable, and upgrade existing WAN routers, making them voice gateways with failover redundancy (SRST).

“PMG needed a solutions approach that would meet their business and technical needs. The Cisco solution we will implement will reduce interoperability issues between disparate technologies and allow PMG to reap the business benefits of an integrated solution while building a foundation for future technology goals and requirements,” said Peter Marquis, vice president, Black Box Network Services.