Micom Joins with IBM to Offer System- Integrated VoIP Solutions; Micom's V/IP Phone/Fax IP Gateway Interoperates With IBM Telephony Server.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1998--Micom Communications Corp., a Nortel (Northern Telecom) company and part of the recently announced Enterprise Data Networks business unit, Tuesday announced that it has selected IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) CT servers as a platform of integration through distribution. This combination will provide proven, system-integrated voice- over-IP (VoIP) solutions to the small- to medium-sized enterprise market through master distributors such as Tech Data. Micom's award-winning V/IP Phone/Fax IP Gateway can be incorporated into IBM's new telephony servers, providing VARs with a simple, cost-effective solution to offer to their customer base. "This interoperability provides the reseller with one-stop ordering for voice-over-IP solutions, combining the industry-leading V/IP Phone/Fax IP Gateway with the PC system expertise and world-renowned reputation of IBM," commented George Abou-Arrage, vice president of marketing for Micom. "We are confident that this offering will increase profit margins for our VARs by reducing unknown variables encountered during configuration and installation." 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. Fred Yentz, manager of IBM's embedded solutions development, "We are pleased that Micom is participating with other manufacturers such as IBM to provide telephony to distribution, which in turn, offers the small- and medium-business marketplace a total solution. "This strategy is in line with our marketing model to make computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration solutions ultimately more available and affordable to small- and medium-sized business." This offering is the newest addition to IBM's array of computer telephony solutions. IBM entered the computer telephony hardware market in August 1997, with the announcement of two Pentium-based servers specifically designed for telephony enablement. The Micom/IBM offering builds upon that August announcement by leveraging the new telephony servers to deliver toll-quality voice-over-IP solutions. Micom shipped 10,000 voice/fax channels for the V/IP Phone/Fax IP Gateway in 1997, representing more than 250 new customers. Micom attributes the record number of channels shipped to the September 1997 release of the V/IP T1/E1 digital interface and to V/IP's industry- leading voice quality, which won several prestigious awards last year. In addition to award-winning voice quality, other customer benefits of Micom V/IP include industry-leading real-time fax-over-IP networks (including the Internet), tolerating up to a five-second network delay. Any T1/E1 or telephony analog port can support voice or fax at no additional cost. The Micom V/IP phone/fax gateway creates an overlay voice and fax network on top of any IP network and allows any user, from any telephone or fax machine, to make free, G.729 toll-quality calls over the IP network, regardless of the underlying WAN (wide area network) technology. V/IP operates seamlessly over frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. , ATM, leased lines, the Internet, satellite and the new performance-enhanced IP-VPN services. The V/IP product family consists of analog and digital voice/fax cards that plug into a single host PC at each enterprise or carrier site. V/IP operates on a host PC running Netware, MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. and Windows 95. The V/IP family of interface cards is compatible with any phone, fax machine, 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). or key system. V/IP incorporates Micom's standards-compliant ClearVoice technology to deliver toll-quality compressed voice at 8 Kbps. V/IP with ClearVoice combines the ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. (International Telecommunications Union See ITU. (body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. ) G.729 voice compression standard, Group 3 fax demodulation demodulation: see modulation. See demodulate. (communications) demodulation - To recover the signal from the carrier. For example, in a radio broadcast using amplitude modulation the audio signal is transmitted as the mean amplitude of a , silence suppression and forward-error correction with digital signal processor A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
Micom solutions operate over a wide variety of WAN technologies, including public and private frame relay, leased lines and satellite. Micom markets its network solutions to small- and mid-size companies and enterprise IP networks. Nortel delivers Power Networks to key customer groups: global businesses with sophisticated networking requirements, and general business markets with multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective networking needs. Nortel -- through its Enterprise Data Networks unit -- also offers next generation data networking infrastructures to carriers and service providers, and includes Nortel's Passport, Micom and Entrust Technologies product portfolios. Nortel had 1997 revenues of $15.5 billion and has approximately 73,000 employees worldwide. Micom is located at 4100 Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley, Calif., 93063; telephone: 805/583-8600; fax: 805/583-1997; URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : www.micom.com. -0- Note to Editors: V/IP and ClearVoice are trademarks of MICOM Communications Corp., a Nortel (Northern Telecom) company. Nortel Power Networks and Passport are trademarks of Nortel (Northern Telecom). Entrust is a trademark of Entrust Technologies. CONTACT: Nortel Micom, Stacey Doherty, 805/577-2222 sdoherty@micom.com (e-mail) www.micom.com |
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