Before the Dawn of IP Telephony - Part 13
Tears from words of appreciation (March 1999)
These contents translated a serialization article carried by ITPro IP telephony ONLINE published by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. Jump to the original (Japanese).
Shinji Usuba
General Manager
eSound Venture Unit
Business Incubation Division
Systems Network Group
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd
Despite the preparation for the shipment of large-capacity VoIP gateway BV2000, the team must now simultaneously develop a product for Europe.
Shipment judgment of BV2000 for large-scale application was held at the end of March 1999. Shipment judgment is conducted based on a strict standard. Products that do not meet this shipping standard simply do not pass. Obviously, our situation of having to develop two models at once held no meaning to the shipment judgment personnel. Our accomplishment was made possible by the team members who did more than one can possibly manage under tremendous burden. I want to thank each and every member who believed in the possibilities of this product and worked to the end.
Fig. 1 Example of a network using BV2000
We successfully passed the shipment judgment and were able to meet the deadline for the first customer. BV2000 was later used as the trunk line for a large-scale network (Fig. 1).
At the end of April, one month later, VoIP gateway products for Europe were shipped. But during the first product shipment judgment, some of the requirements could not be met.
I still remember the words of the personnel in charge of shipment judgment after failing the judgment. He said, "The level of product development accomplished in such short time is extremely surprising. The design capability of your development team is assessed very highly. It's a pity I can't pass you."
Photo 1 BS1200E, our first product for Europe
Shipment judgment personnel bear responsibility of customers in terms of product quality. It is extremely rare to receive such comments and we were very surprised. These became the words of appreciation for all of the members participating in the development. BS1200E later cleared the indicated checkpoints and passed the shipment judgment. And our first VoIP gateway product "BS1200E" with a BRI interface for Europe was born (photo 1).
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