GALWAY VOLVO OCEAN RACE USES VOSKY TO SLASH CALLING COSTS.

The Galway Volvo Ocean Race will use VoSKY's Exchange gateway to enable race team members and staff to make low-cost calls abroad via Skype during the stopover of the world's premier yacht race from 23 May to 06 June 2009.

The VoSKY Exchange Pro VIT1/E1 gateway, which has been installed and configured by VoSKY premier partner (VPP) Calimar, will be used by Galway stopover event organisers Let's Do It Galway for the duration of the event. Calimar has set up 118 voice points to cater for the hundreds of long-distance calls, which will be made from the event offices, the media centre and the race village where the teams will stay during the two weeks.

Lets Do It Galway will use VoSKY's VIT1/E1 gateway, which enables medium to large sized organisations to take advantage of calls over the Internet using Skype to benefit from cost savings of up to 90% over traditional telephony.

"Derrick May, CEO for Calimar, said: "The Volvo Ocean Race is one of the biggest sporting events to come to Ireland so we wanted to contribute and get involved as much as possible. As the Galway stopover event organisers, Let's Do It Galway, is a not-for-profit organisation we offered to project manage the telecoms infrastructure during the event for free.

"During the two-week stopover hundreds of yacht team members, supporting staff and media will need to make international calls, so Let's Do It Galway required a robust and reliable voice system which would not only be able to deliver high-quality voice calls, but would have the capacity to cope with the high volume of calls that will be made.

"Furthermore being not-for-profit, Let's Do It Galway needed a cost-effective solution; VoSKY's T1/E1 Exchange is the perfect solution to all these requirements as it will keep communications costs for the organisers low and will be able to support up to 30 concurrent Skype calls. With such a high profile event it's imperative that things run smoothly; there is no doubt that the VoSKY Exchange will more than meet these expectations."

Neil Carney, Operations Director, Galway Volvo Ocean Race, stated, "As organisers of the biggest sporting event and festival in Ireland during 2009, Let's Do It Galway is delighted with the support and services of Callimar and their Vosky communications systems which will enable us to deliver a best in class service to the visiting teams, media and support personnel to the Volvo Ocean Race."