The VetsAmerica Team is working with Siemens Enterprise to provide revolutionary, Next Generation VOIP Infrastructure to the Tuscaloosa, AL VAMC.

The VetsAmerica Team is currently performing the replacement of the current telephone system at the VA Medical Center Tuscaloosa, AL.  The current system was thirteen years old and did not meet the current or future needs of the medical center given current growth levels and was experiencing a large number of maintenance issues which jeopardized the operational capability of voice services.  This upgrade/expansion involves the VetsAmerica Team providing all services, materials, supplies, supervision, labor, and equipment to support this effort.

This upgrade/expansion will encompass all common equipment and peripheral equipment necessary to install a complete digital/analog voice telephone system, including all peripheral devices. The VoIP has been purchased to satisfy the digital/analog voice requirements of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VA facility) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and will fully integrate/network LAN/WAN and operate without loss of features or functionality with the Tuscaloosa VAMC.  The existing ROLM 9751 system will be replaced with the latest commercially available version that has been installed, tested and successfully implemented at 10 other sites. The system architecture will be distributed, will not be housed in one location and will not be centrally located. Each of the voice system nodes will interface to the main voice system node via two (2) dark multimode fibers in a point A to point B connection scheme.  A distributed system will be a “star” architecture. 

Each node will be capable of processing telephone calls separately if detached from a group of distributed nodes.  Our Team is responsible for meeting the contract specifications for the VA.  The VS equipment will operate in accordance with the manufacturer's commercial specifications.  It will be designed and constructed to give a 99.9% availability Mean Time between Failure Rate per annum and a VoIP service grade of 99.999% availability per annum.