Telephony software developer, Integrated Research (ASX:IRI), has partnered with France Telecom to win a major international VoIP contract for its Prognosis telephony management system.

Under the deal announced last week, Prognosis will be used to monitor and manage 40,000 new VoIP phones for Airbus Industries as a result of Airbus awarding a five-year contract to France Telecom and its UK subsidiary Equant, to implement a Cisco Systems IP Communications solution.

France Telecom and Equant will be responsible for maintaining service levels and providing day-to-day support for the VoIP deployment, and Prognosis IP Telephony Manager has been selected as the solution for monitoring and optimising performance and availability.

Migrating Airbus from traditional private branch exchanges (PBX) to a fully IP-based telephony system will see Cisco providing IP telephone handsets for 30,000 extensions in France and 10,000 extensions in the UK. Cisco CallManager call-processing software will provide the operating platform and Prognosis will provide the precise performance monitoring solution.

”With over 150 enterprise IP telephony customers worldwide, Prognosis has proved itself as the standard for managing the largest Cisco IP communications deployments. Management of the world’s two largest aircraft manufacturers is testimony to the business value and quality of our Prognosis solutions. When you include British Airways through our association with Prime Systems, we can confidently boast that Prognosis manages the world’s largest aviation and airline industry IP telephony networks.” said Kailem Anderson, product manager - IP Telephony & VoIP Products Group, Integrated Research.