Alcatel Enters U.S. Enterprise Voice Market With World-Class IP-based System; Company Leverages the Convergence of Its Data and Voice-Networking Portfolio.Business Editors ComNet 2000 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000 Alcatel today announced it is entering the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. enterprise voice market with the launch of the Alcatel OmniPCX 4400, offering business users the world's most advanced IP-based enterprise system. The OmniPCX 4400 is the materialization of the combination of Alcatel's data networking product suite formed from the recent acquisitions of Packet Engines and Xylan xylan /xy·lan/ (zi´lan) any of a group of pentosans composed of xylose residues; major structural constituents of wood, straw, and bran. , and the company's long lasting European leadership in voice networking. &uot;We are now addressing the U.S. enterprise market with a world-class offering, taking advantage of the opportunity created by the convergence of voice and data technologies,&uot; said Olivier Houssin, Alcatel Telecom executive vice-president. Unique features of the Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 include scalability from 50 to 50,000 users, innovative ReflexesTM telephone handsets, 99.999 percent reliability, one-number mobility, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , voice-over-IP networking with quality of service management, Web-based customer contact center and integrated voice and data network management. These features all work together to reduce the cost of ownership of enterprise communication networks. The Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 is entirely based on a client/server UNIX architecture A Unix architecture is a computer operating system system architecture that embodies the Unix philosophy. It may adhere to standards such as the Single UNIX Specification (SUS) or similar POSIX IEEE standard. and demonstrates Alcatel's commitment to open systems. The strength of the OmniPCX 4400's open architecture is its ability to integrate easily with networking infrastructure and application technologies from any supplier committed to open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced . &uot;With Alcatel's entry into the U.S, all of the leading global PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). suppliers are finally competing against each other for the first time in the same geographic market,&uot; said Allan Sulkin, president of TEQConsult Group, a leading enterprise communications consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a . &uot;Alcatel's new product combines all of the features and functions that customers are demanding of their PBX system in the new era of IP-based telephony, without foregoing the traditional fundamentals of reliable call processing In telecommunication, the term call processing has the following meanings:
The OmniPCX 4400 is an integral part of Alcatel's overall OmniSolutions for Enterprise initiative. It includes the OmniSwitch, OmniStack and OmniCore data networking product families from Alcatel's recent acquisitions of Packet Engines and Xylan, and the OmniVista network management system. The OmniPCX 4400 will also benefit from the world-class contact center applications from Genesys, an important Alcatel acquisition also announced today. &uot;There is today a dramatic shift happening in the enterprise market, from traditional PBXs -- the telephone systems that have been the basis for voice communication for the last 25 years -- to the PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. -- the IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. private communication exchange,&uot; Houssin added. &uot;With the OmniPCX 4400, we are entering a totally new market space with a world-class innovation. It brings together organizations' networking and IT systems with the Internet, to align voice communications more tightly with computer applications.&uot; According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , the timing of Alcatel's market entry is right. The leading IT consultancy reports that over the next three years significant new technologies will come to market that will cause companies to redesign and replace existing voice and data networks, and International Data Corporation predicts that the U.S. market for IP telephony will grow at an annual average rate of 55 percent over four years, reaching $600 million in 2003. &uot;We see a lot of change coming for our voice network as we scale our systems to keep pace with company growth, provide more tools for our users and lower support costs. The Alcatel system promises to help us on all three fronts,&uot; said Jerry Marella, director of global telecommunications for Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) &uot;We need our phone systems to be rock-solid, and our experience with the Alcatel product shows that it is easy to implement and very dependable.&uot; CA uses the OmniPCX 4400 in offices in Europe, Asia and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , with a U.S. implementation planned for Q1. The U.S. launch of the OmniPCX 4400 will enable Alcatel's international customers to deploy a seamless voice and data network throughout the world. And U.S. customers will benefit from the company's decades of experience in supporting enterprise networks and from its extensive support and service organization. The OmniPCX 4400 and other OmniSolutions will be on display in Alcatel's booth (No. 1626) at the ComNet trade show in Washington, D.C. General availability in North America is estimated for Q3 2000. About Alcatel Alcatel builds next-generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of $25.0 billion, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel at www.alcatel.com. |
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