CITEL Technologies, and 3Com Demonstrate New Customer Choices for Affordable and Easy IP Telephony Migration Solutions at Comms Channel Expo.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Comms Channel Expo BIRMINGHAM, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2003 CITEL's IP Handset Gateway Enables Nortel 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). Users to Migrate Easily to 3Com's Networked Telephony -- While Protecting Original Investment in Telephone Handsets CITEL CITEL Comisión Interamericana de Telecomunicaciones (Inter-American Telecommunications Commission) Technologies and 3Com Corporation will demonstrate new 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. solutions to help accelerate and ease the migration of installed Nortel Enterprise PBX customers to IP telephony at this year's Comms Channel Expo. Comms Channel Expo will take place on 2-3 April 2003 at the NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. in Birmingham. Nortel customers now have a new IP solution choice when moving, renovating or upgrading their existing Norstar or Meridian 1 PBX system. With CITEL's technology, customers can choose to implement a new IP-based business telephone system from 3Com, while retaining a large part of their existing Nortel communication investment, the telephones. The addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be legacy PBX telephone market opportunity is extensive: currently estimated at 315 million PBX telephones, 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. Frost & Sullivan, a leading industry analyst firm. A recent study by Philips InfoTech, another prominent industry analyst firm, reported that there are approximately 22.7 million Norstar and Meridian 1 handsets installed in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. alone. Based on published sales figures sales figures npl → cifras fpl de ventas , CITEL believes that there are over 34 million Norstar and Meridian 1 handsets installed worldwide. The CITELlink(TM) IP Handset Gateway represents a significant saving for these enterprise customers. Millions of traditional Analog users in vertical markets such as education, local government, hospitality, and manufacturing will also benefit from CITEL's newly developed CITELlink(TM) High Density Analog IP Handset Gateway. CITEL and 3Com are offering maximum investment protection for a Nortel customer's telephones, extending the life and investment in these legacy telephone handsets, which can represent 65 percent of a customer's initial investment. In addition, these customers gain affordable access to a wide range of rich IP telephony features, such as computer telephony integration Computer Telephony Integration - Computer Telephone Integration , browser-based administration, 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. , and the multi-site connectivity capabilities that are built into the 3Com(R) NBX (Network Branch EXchange) A family of IP-based telephony systems from 3Com. The name was derived from "PBX," the traditional name for an enterprise telephone switch. (R) platform. The CITELlink IP Handset Gateway is the world's first handset gateway to provide IP PBX (Internet Protocol Private Branch eXchange) A telephone switch that supports voice over IP (VoIP). IP PBXs convert IP phone calls into traditional circuit-switched TDM connections for the PSTN. interoperability for legacy PBX telephones across multiple vendor lines. The CITELlink gateway communicates in legacy PBX protocol to traditional telephone handsets and Internet Protocol to the IP PBX, and performs the translation between the two simultaneously. Enterprise customers can now take advantage of increased scalability, easy migration, reliability, and lower cost of ownership by deploying next generation IP PBX applications on their traditional telephone handsets. The CITELlink gateway is a "slide in card" to the 3Com NBX chassis and supports 16 PBX telephones. Multiple units can be linked together to support larger enterprises, providing Nortel customers with more scalability and enhanced IP functionality than their original system capacity. The CITELlink gateway, winner of the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Market Engineering Award for Enterprise Communications Product of the Year, has supported Nortel telephones since June 2002, and thousands of ports are already installed around the world. CITEL currently provides gateway integrations for Nortel's Norstar and Meridian 1 telephones, as well as generic Analog telephones for 3Com's NBX(R) networked telephony systems: NBX 100 system and SuperStack(R) 3 NBX system. About CITEL Technologies CITEL Technologies is a global provider of unique IP telephony and converged communications solutions, which bridge the two worlds of legacy PBX telephones and next-generation IP-PBX systems. CITEL works in partnership with world leading telecom equipment manufacturers and suppliers with the goal of simplifying and accelerating the transition to next-generation communications solutions. Since 1995, CITEL has developed a number of award-winning telephony products and the company has now pioneered the new product category of Handset Gateways. CITEL Technologies is a private company with offices in Nottingham, England (UK), Providence, Rhode Island  “Providence” redirects here. For other uses, see Providence (disambiguation). Providence is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. (USA), and Seattle, Washington (USA). For more information, please visit www.citel.com. About 3Com Corporation 3Com is a tier-one provider of innovative, practical and high-value networking products for enterprises of all sizes and public sector organizations. 3Com is also a leader in providing Internet protocol (IP) service platforms and access infrastructure for network service providers. For further information, please visit www.3com.com, or the press site www.3com.com/pressbox. CITEL and CITELlink are trademarks of CITEL Technologies Ltd. 3Com, NBX, SuperStack and the 3Com logo are registered trademarks of 3Com Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective holders. |
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