Ciasco and BT announced today they have extended their longstanding partnership through the launch of a global “cloud”-based IPT solution.

Ciassco and BT’s Onevoice Unified Communications (UC) platform, will launch a scalable, business-grade and global hosted IP Telephony service.

Chris Dedicoat, president of Cisco Europe said; "Cisco and BT are deepening our collaboration today by introducing a unified communications solution delivered through the cloud at a compelling price point.”

The proposed set-up will attempt to reduce costs, allowing businesses to dramatically reduce upfront investment expenditure whilst accelerating the adoption of UC on a global scale.

Dedicoat is also hopeful the new hosted offering will help the company to “bring the benefits of the unified communications to more customers globally.”