Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 Wins Internet Telephony Magazine's Product of the Year Award; Second Major Award for Alcatel's IP-Based Communication Platform.Business Editors/Technology Writers CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2000 Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALA) today announced that the OmniPCX 4400 has been named product of the year by Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. Magazine. The Internet Telephony Product of the Year award is designed to honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. innovative products and services that have contributed to the growth of the Internet telephony industry. The award-winning OmniPCX 4400 has been recognized in the LAN Telephony An IP telephony system that is contained within a local area network (LAN). See IP telephony and voice capable Ethernet switch. category to be a best-of-breed communication server of tomorrow, available today. The editorial staff at Internet Telephony Magazine picked out the Product of the Year award winners by reviewing product submissions from vendors, as well as looking through product information gathered over the past year. The list of winners will honor all of the leading vendors' best and brightest products (or updates to existing products) that were brought to market during the 2000 calendar year. The Alcatel OmniPCX 4400, along with other winners of the Product of the Year award, will be announced in the January 2000 issue of Internet Telephony Magazine. The Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 is the world's most advanced IP-based voice communication system. 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. , the OmniPCX 4400 includes scalability from 50 to 50,000 users, innovative Reflexes 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 comprehensive network management. The OmniPCX 4400 offers a smooth migration path from legacy to 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. by supporting IP connections in addition to analog and digital connections. "Alcatel is very proud that the OmniPCX 4000 has been awarded product of the year," said Patrick Liot, president of Alcatel's e-Business Networking Division. "The OmniPCX 4400 has revolutionized the IP telephony market since its launch in January and Alcatel appreciates Internet Telephony Magazine's acknowledgement of this accomplishment." "The Internet Telephony(R) Product of the Year award allows us to honor exemplary products across a broad span of the marketplace," said TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center president and group publisher Rich Tehrani. "As the industry matures, we're finding more than just products and services on the market -- entire solutions are being offered. The awards, selected by the editors of Internet Telephony(R) Magazine and the engineers of TMC Labs, are designed to honor those companies, such as Alcatel for their OmniPCX 4400, as they continue to forge ahead with the development of the next generation of global telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. ." 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 $26 billion (euro$23 billion) in 1999, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com. |
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