Citrix Voice Office Application Suite Selected by Cisco as AppsCentral Application of the Month.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. , Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS CTXS Citrix Systems (NASDAQ stock ticker symbol) ), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced that Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. has selected Citrix(R) Voice Office, a suite of packaged, converged 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. applications delivered by the Citrix Application Gateway(TM), as Application of the Month for November 2005. Voice Office is featured in Cisco's IP Communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. Applications Central. Citrix is part of Cisco's Technology Developer program. Voice Office and the Application Gateway are sold globally by Cisco's value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. . IP Communication Application Central or AppsCentral is Cisco's one-stop-shop portal for information and access to all of Cisco's productivity application offerings. IP Communications encompasses IP telephony, video telephony See videophone. , 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 voicemail, IP video- and audio conferencing See audioconferencing. , customer contact solutions, voice gateways and applications, security solutions, and network management. The Cisco Technology Developer Program sets criteria for interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. testing by independent third parties and enables leading product and services firms to deploy innovative business solutions. The program provides enterprise or service provider customers with information regarding Cisco Technology Developer Partner products and services that an independent testing facility has tested and found to interoperate with Cisco networking technology. The Citrix Voice Office application suite enables organizations to realize the many promises of their IP telephony systems by simplifying user interaction, reducing user training, and enhancing organizational communications Organizational communication, broadly speaking, is: people working together to achieve individual or collective goals. [1] Discipline History The modern field traces its lineage through business information, business communication, and early mass communication . Voice Office enables businesses to extend the capabilities of their IP telephones beyond voice communications, leveraging these investments for more than network and administrative cost-savings to increase workforce productivity. It enables users to page through the IP telephone system, play voicemail as easily as a CD, and dial by clicking on telephone numbers in e-mail or Web applications. Organizations can eliminate paper directories and redeploy re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. attendants. All Voice Office applications are accessible from the screens and speakers of each IP telephone:
-- Citrix(R) Visual Voicemail - provides visual representation of
voice messages with the ability to select the most important
ones to review, without having to listen to each message in a
time-consuming, serial manner. During message playback, the
user can play, pause, forward, reply, and rewind using labeled
soft keys rather than having to remember cryptic control
codes.
-- Citrix(R) Express Directory - an LDAP-based directory with
high-speed ability to update in real-time. This new directory
user interface can reduce the time to look-up and dial-in by
up to 75 percent compared to current solutions.
-- Citrix(R) Zone Paging - enables authorized users to reliably
page groups of IP telephones located in specific zones,
without the expense of installing a costly paging system.
-- Citrix(R) Broadcast Server - delivers priority messages such
as emergency announcements, IT service updates, and weather
alerts in the form of text, graphics and audio to IP
telephones. The Broadcast Server also enables an organization
to use the screens of its IP telephones to display a rotating
set of messages, such as advertisements, employee billboards,
and management billboards.
"We selected Citrix's Application Gateway as it enables us to quickly deploy applications and take advantage of the features of our new Cisco IP telephones," said Peggy Storey-Inkster, chief information officer at Canada-based Sault College Sault College is one of 24 publicly funded community colleges in Ontario. Sault College is located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and began in 1965 as the Ontario Vocational Centre. . Application Gateway's Broadcast Alerts and Zone Paging applications will help us provide up-to-date information and alerts campus-wide, whether it is for emergency preparedness or weather alerts, improving safety and security of our students and employees." "Citrix Voice Office represents a new breed of converged applications that is easy to configure and use, and is designed to increase user productivity while eliminating the complexity which has inhibited the widespread adoption of certain IP telephony capabilities," said Gordon Payne, vice president of marketing, for Citrix. "Organizations can finally take advantage of their investments in IP telephony infrastructure to extend the power of on-demand access to all forms of voice and data services through a single, unified view to deliver the best voice access experience." Citrix Voice Office Citrix Voice Office is a suite of packaged, converged IP telephony applications that simplify user interaction, reduce user training, and enhance organizational communications for businesses with Cisco and Nortel IP telephones. Delivered by the Citrix Application Gateway, Voice Office includes Citrix Express Directory, Citrix Visual Voicemail Visual Voicemail or Random Access Voicemail is the process of adding a visual aspect to mobile phone voicemail and allowing users to listen to their messages in the order of their choice. , Citrix Zone Paging, and Citrix Broadcast Server, all accessible from the screens and speakers of these IP telephones. With no development work whatsoever, IT departments can use Voice Office to immediately provide their users with simplified and faster access to the organization's existing IP telephony applications and make telephony features easier for them to use. Voice Office delivers the best access experience for everyone: Leveraged telephony investments for the business, improved productivity for users, and increased efficiency for IT. About the Citrix Application Gateway Citrix Application Gateway is an appliance for organizations with IP telephony systems that delivers converged voice and data applications to the screens and speakers of their IP telephones. The Application Gateway also can transform existing Web-based applications See Web application. for the screens of IP phones and any wireless device. It enables organizations to leverage and extend the use of their business applications and their IP telephony system. As a standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. solution of the Citrix Access Platform or bundled into a telephony access package with Citrix Voice Office, Application Gateway delivers the best access experience for everyone: rapidly expanded on-demand access for the business, simple access for users, and high-performance, secure access for IT. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access. More than 160,000 organizations around the world use the Citrix Access Platform to provide the best possible access experience to any application for any user. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Citrix annual revenues in 2004 were $741 million. Learn more at http://www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. which are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. 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Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. Citrix(R) and Citrix Application Gateway(TM) are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/ one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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