Frost & Sullivan Honors Nortel Networks with Distinguished Market Engineering Leadership Award; Nortel Networks Recognized for Industry Leading Softswitch.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001 Frost & Sullivan has selected Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony as the 2001 Market Engineering Leadership Award recipient for its outstanding leadership in the softswitch market and development of the market's first commercially available, deployed, large-scale, carrier-grade softswitch, the Succession Communication Server 3000. The Frost & Sullivan Market Engineering Leadership Award is presented to companies exhibiting leadership, growth, and market and technological innovation. Nortel Networks has displayed excellence in all award criteria, including the identification of market challenges, drivers, and restraints, as well as strategic development and the ability to address these market dynamics. The Succession Communication Server 3000 is an integral part of Nortel Networks Succession solutions, a portfolio of next-generation, multiservice network solutions that allow service providers to deliver mission-critical voice, data and multimedia services over a single, converged, packet-based network. Succession solutions support 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 and interfaces, and operate in multi-vendor, voice-over-packet environments. The strength behind the Succession Communication Server 3000 is its Java software based system that provides customers with the flexibility to create their own new services, work with third-party vendors, and/or work with Nortel Networks to create new services. Succession Communication Server 3000 is currently in full-service in one of the largest 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. networks in the world. "We are very pleased to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the market leader in the softswitch arena," said Tim Pillow, vice president, Succession, Nortel Networks. "Succession Communication Server 3000 softswitch is a key component of the high-performance Succession solutions portfolio that has made Nortel Networks a market leader in the Internet telephony space." Nortel Networks has become an industry leader due to its market success and leadership in promoting open, industry-standard platforms discussed in "World Softswitch Markets," new strategic research by Frost & Sullivan. With the largest scale softswitch product accomplishments with customers, such as Cable & Wireless, and the most substantial market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" and market share, Nortel Networks has a clear market leadership position. "Nortel Networks is a leader in promoting open, industry-standard platforms. Less visionary vendors have adopted proprietary and closed systems. Although Nortel Networks has billions of dollars of proprietary DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. products installed in the market, Nortel Networks engineered Succession Communication Server 3000 based on a commercially available, industry-standard server architecture," said Pete Dailey, partner at Frost & Sullivan and global business manager for Frost & Sullivan's Network Convergence Practice. "This leverages the Java platform Running Java programs under the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java "platform" refers to the running of Java programs versus Java itself, which is a programming language. Java programs are machine independent and run intact on any hardware platform that has a Java interpreter (JVM). not just for administrative functions, but for real-time intensive call control." 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Report Code 6236-61 Nortel Networks and Succession are trademarks of Nortel Networks. For more information about the Succession Communication Server 3000, visit http://nortelnetworks.com/softswitch. |
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