EL PASO, Texas -- INX Inc. said that it has successfully completed the first phase of a comprehensive communications upgrade for Western Refining Inc. for its headquarters in El Paso, Texas. Western Refining expects to continue to roll out new voice and messaging technology as their business grows. The unified messaging platform will provide long-term scalability for future applications including video conferencing and presence messaging.
Western Refining recently acquired Giant Industries Inc., making Western Refining the 4th largest publicly traded [image-nocss] independent refiner and marketer in the United States, with a total crude oil throughput capacity of approximately 223,000 barrels per day (bpd).
We believe that we will gain efficiencies in operations while increasing functionality by implementing the latest in voice and messaging technology, said Blake Larsen, director of information technology for refining. As our business grows, we continue to look for standardization. Companies like INX and Cisco help us to meet those objectives.
Mark Wilhelm, vice president of sales for INX commented, We continue to have great partnerships and projects from our El Paso area office and are excited about the long-term engagement with Western Refining.
??-based INX delivers business-ready networks to enterprise organizations. It offers a full suite of technology that supports the life cycle of IP communications systems. It designs, implements and supports the IP network infrastructure for enterprise organizations including routing and switching, IP telephony, messaging, wireless, network storage and security.
Western Refining is an independent refining and marketing company. It has a refinery in El Paso, two refineries in the Four Corners region of northern New Mexico and a refinery in Yorktown, Va. Western's asset portfolio also includes refined products terminals in Albuquerque, N.M., and Flagstaff, Ariz., retail gas stations and convenience stores in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, a fleet of crude oil and finished product truck transports and wholesale petroleum products operations in Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico and Texas.
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