|
|
Nortel joins with IBM System i series servers for VOIP
2007-06-13
The announcement was made at Global Connect 2007, a user association meeting in Tampa, Fla. The combined technologies will be available to customers in October, said Lori McLean, general manager of the Nortel-IBM alliance, in an interview. Pricing was not announced.
The new initiative "effectively converts the System i operating system into an IP private branch exchange," McLean said. "The integrated solution makes the move to IP telephony along with unified communications as easy as a software upgrade on IBM System i."
With a new System i model announced in April by IBM selling as low as US$8,000, the combined technology will be able to provide as little as five VOIP lines, she said, noting that "it scales dramatically."
3Com has combined VOIP and other applications with System i for more than nine months, announcing medium-size customers last October. And in March, 3Com announced additional capabilities on the System i.
McLean said the Nortel partnership will offer more multimedia and unified communications capabilities than what 3Com offers. Moreover, she said, the systems will be easier to deploy.
Nortel provides a portfolio of products for small and medium-size businesses, even though it has outfitted some of the largest businesses and carriers in the world. The products, such as the Business Communications Manager, Business Ethernet Switch and Business Secure Router, will complement the new combined product, called Nortel-IBM System i Unified Communications solution, McLean said. The new technology goes into smaller businesses and branch offices than BCM, McLean added.
Zeus Kerravala, an analyst at Yankee Group Research, said the System i combinations with both 3Com and Nortel applications are only suited for smaller businesses, since larger ones wouldn't want to combine VOIP and systems servers.
He said the newly announced Nortel offering "in theory" should do well, although a similar offering has not been that effective for 3Com so far.
By Matt Hamblen
|
|
|
|
VoIP Providers List Information |
|
|
|
If you have any constructive thoughts, creative ideas, or reasonable offers, please, contact us.
|
|
Send Email to Helen O'Neill if you have any questions either about this website, or about VoIP providers, or VoIP in general.
|
|
Send Email to our technical support if you have any technical queries.
|
About VoIP Providers List
VoIP Providers List services save time for companies searching both for information and interconnection partners, interested in voice minutes exchange, i.e. VoIP minutes termination and origination, as well as hardware and software trade. We provide information on interconnection services, VoIP hardware solutions and VoIP software , as well as overall situation in the VoIP industry.
VoIP Providers List is constantly moderated, and thus we can guarantee that any VoIP provider published in the web-based company catalogue has provided accurate details on its services and operations.
We are constantly working on improvement and development of our services. Your comments and proposals regarding the services are highly welcome. Please, do not hesitate to contact us providing with your ideas, opinion, and feed-back. We will be grateful for any information and useful links on Voice over IP, VoIP hardware, VoIP software, and VoIP Providers. |
|
|
|
|
VoIP Providers Statistics |
|
|
Providers in database: 3315
Users Online: 300
|
|
|
