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Brazoria Using Alcatel-Lucent to Deploy VoIP, Other Services

Source: www.voip-news.com

Brazoria Telephone is using Alcatel-Lucent’s Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture to provide voice, video and data services to customers in its service area south of Houston in Texas. The advanced broadband services include HDTV, video on demand, VoIP and high-speed internet.

“Alcatel-Lucent’s solution enables us to quickly develop exciting new service offerings based on what our subscribers want while delivering on the promise made by our company motto of providing exceptionally dependable services,” said John Greenberg, president of Brazoria Telephone. “In addition, the Alcatel-Lucent solution gives us unprecedented control over subscriber services making it possible for us to automate our billing process and offer our subscriber’s flexible Internet service that more efficiently manages bandwidth-usage based on pre-defined service packages.”

The technology made control of services simpler and more user-centric.

“Alcatel-Lucent is helping Brazoria Telephone lay an IP network foundation that leverages our industry-leading broadband access, optics, carrier Ethernet and service-aware IP technologies and couples them with robust subscriber and network management, and security capabilities,” said Gerry Cafaro, vice president of sales for Alcatel-Lucent. “With deployment of Alcatel-Lucent’s TPSDA, Brazoria is well-positioned to deliver new and innovative consumer and enterprise service offerings to its customers.”

Published on June 17th, 2008 under , , , , , , , , , ,

Dell Thinks Small Biz is Big Biz for VoIP

Source: gigaom.com

Dell begins bundling Fonality’s open-source software with its enterprise servers today, its latest gambit to compete in the already-crowded VoIP market — this time targeting companies with 125 employees or fewer.

This is fertile ground: Analyst Alan Weckel of research firm Dell ‘Oro Group estimates annual PBX revenues, including those from VoIP phone systems, will exceed $7.5 billion by 2011. Much of this growth could come from small- to medium-sized businesses. Weckel told The Wall Street Journal in August that he thinks 35 million small businesses will adopt IP phone service before 2010 (about 11 million currently use it), a number that’s likely to ramp up if the economic situation worsens.

Granted, this is a market that has never fulfilled its promise. Few of the many hosted-PBX service providers are even making money. Yet Dell (DELL) still sees opportunity in hawking VoIP to businesses. Why? They buy more gear than cost-conscious housewives. If there is one thing Dell knows, it is that empires can be built on the incremental profits inside lots of gray boxes and the software that runs on them.

Dell is a relatively late entrant here. Cisco, Avaya, Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent, to name a few, are established players in the VoIP space, though their products also target larger customers. In the small business space, Digium and Microsoft, which released its Microsoft Office Communication Server in 2007, will be the chief competitors. (Microsoft has claimed a working relationship with Dell in the past.)

Late or not, Dell lives to put the squeeze on the margins of its peers. The Fonality VoIP Phone System will be priced at about $750 per employee for a five-employee system, or $9,999 for a system that will serve 25. This is far less than Cisco-class proprietary system, which can cost as much as $2,000 per employee. Being open source, Dell-Fonality boxes are simpler than most too, and capable of self-installation — an additional savings worth thousands of dollars.

“The big five phone systems-vendors are going to wake up today and see Dell as a competitor and it’s going to be a watershed event — the end of the phone system-oligolopy,” Fonality founder Chris Lyman said.

It certainly is a watershed event for four-year-old Fonality (as Lyman tells Found|READ), which has been selling its own branded VoIP boxes since 2003. Fonality now has 5,000 business customers (and 130 employees). It could sure use Dell’s sales channel to scale. Dell has between 6 million and 7 million small business customers, according to IDC.

Fonality will get a standard revenue share: hardware proceeds go to Dell, software revenues flow to Fonality (Dell won’t disclose the exact breakdown). Users will get their bill from Dell. Tech support will be handled by Fonality for at least the first year, Lyman says. Dell’s service is available for purchase today, via phone. Customers can order systems at Dell.com by February.

Published on January 23rd, 2008 under , , , , , , , , , , ,

Alcatel anounces OmniSwitch 9000: 10-Gigabit Ethernet Switches for Next-Generation Enterprise Networks

Source: voipcentral.org

Alcatel, Paris bases Internet firm announced its new 10-gigabit Ethernet core switches of its new Omni Switch family. 10 gigabit Ethernet switches are fast becoming the new standard for companies and providers offering VoIP services.

The OmniSwitch 9000s are part of companys enterprise switch family which also includes stackable and modular edge switches. According to companys officials; the OmniSwitch 9000 will not only deliver high flexible solution for future but with improved security, smart performance for todays networked application which includes Internet Telephony, video conferencing and other applications.

Built on a new architecture, switches provides high resiliency and security features through the Alcatel Operating System (AOS), combined with Broadcom’s Ethernet semiconductors.

“By combining the strong features and capabilities of our AOS with the most advanced Ethernet switch silicon solutions available in the market today from Broadcom, the Alcatel OmniSwitch 9000 family is able to support the convergence of voice, video and data and other applications at the best price available today,” said Eric Penisson, vice president of marketing and software engineering for Alcatel’s network infrastructure activities.

The Alcatel OmniSwitch 9000 family features a completely redundant configuration starting at $23,995.

For more information on Alcatel - http://www.alcatel.com/

Published on December 4th, 2005 under , , ,

Alcatel Scores!

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

In the era of the dot.com explosion, announcements like this were commonplace for start-up companies as a way of touting their value. More established and traditional players didn’t make announcements like these, citing the disclosure regulations, or claiming they were non-material to their earnings. Well it looks like in the VoIP era, all that is going out the window, as with each victory the major players are chest thumping.

Published on January 21st, 2004 under

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