Deployment is…

..the often painful process of physically rolling out endpoints to the customer. Doesn’t matter if the PBX is on-premise, hosted or in the Cloud. Someone, or something has to define the endpoints. Or does it?

Provisioning

Let’s consider provisioning, it goes hand in hand with deployment and it’s vital to the goal of a smooth, fast, professional rollout. It follows that everything has to be as automated as possible in order to keep time and effort to a minimum.

SARK was built from the ground up to provide provisioning to its endpoints. Provisioning is a fundamental part of the core product. For example, SARK has an in-built SIP multicast listener so it can do true Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for LAN attached SIP phones. Vendors such as Snom, Panasonic and Yealink all support multicast provisioning and it’s a huge time saver. You want to roll out fifty or a hundred phones? How about a thousand? How long will it take you to define them to the PBX? Without ZTP you would click add, choose the manufacturer and model number from the drop downs, fill out the MAC address and so on… for every phone! Time, time, time. Doesn’t matter if the PBX has a mass uploader which reads spreadsheets or CSV files, someone still has to fill out all the information and it’s easy to make mistakes on a large install.

With ZTP you unbox the phones and plug them in. Job done. SARK will listen for the multicast broadcasts, build the extension entries on the fly and fill out all that boring (and error prone) stuff about MAC addresses, model numbers and manufacturers entirely automatically.

What if the phones are remote, or don’t support multicast? You’ll still have to do all the boring stuff then. Right? Wrong. SARK needs precisely one piece of information to create an extension; the MAC address. You don’t even need to enter them one at a time. You don’t have to worry that the phones are different models, or even from different vendors.

Just copy and paste the MACs into the box and SARK will do the rest. Create as many extensions as you need in one paste operation or scan them in with a barcode scanner. SARK will create the extension buckets and prepare the provisioning templates entirely automatically. Furthermore, when it actually provisions the phones it will automatically scavenge things like model numbers and add them to the database. It will even give you library images of the endpoints so you know what’s where.

SARK supports Aastra, CiscoMP, Panasonic, Polycom, Snom, Vtech and Yealink, right out of the box. Choose whichever best suits your needs.

And because SARK is extensible, you can also roll out some, or all, of your phones unprovisioned if you want to use a third party provisioning engine. Just ask SARK to build you as many, or as few, unprovisioned endpoints as you want, again, in ONE operation.

No other platform deploys as seamlessly or as fast as SARK, saving you time and money.

Usability

…not being limited by where or how you manage the platform. The ultra-modern SARK front-end is built using HTML5/CSS3. It’s both adaptive and responsive so you can use it on anything anywhere; from your desk, tablet, phablet or phone. It will give you the best possible experience from any of these devices.

Use it from your tablet…

Use it from your phone…

Use it on the move, from your car, on the train or a plane. SARK will give you the best possible usability whatever device you choose or have to hand.