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Who is acquiring Avaya, the leading VoIP and Unified Communication vendor? We raised the question just two days back following the rumor that Avaya is heading towards a buyout.

There was intense speculation that Nortel Networks Corp is the front-runner in the bid to acquire the VoIP and Unified Communication company that beat all odds to hit the current VoIP market.

Since, Nortel is looking forward to take the advantages in the areas of unified communication in the corporate VoIP market, the speculation seemed genuine, at least for the time being.

However, the latest reports add that Nortel is stepping down from its bid to acquire Avaya due to the rise in the share price of the later. A WSJ story that got a number links elaborates after Avaya’s stock price spike in the past week, it became more unaffordable for Nortel. Avaya’s stock touched to $17.18 late Friday from $13.67 a week earlier.

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TELMEX, the largest telecommunications service provider in Mexico has reached an agreement with Nortel to provide Hosted IP PBX services to both medium and large business enterprises in the country.

As per the deal, Toronto-based Nortel would provide its IP based telecom and multimedia solutions to the Mexican telecom giant. It includes Notels Communication Server 2000 and Nortels Global Services portfolio.

Nortels Communication Server 2000 is an IMS-ready, carrier-grade super class softswitch. It supports a wide range of voice and multimedia business features based on the open, industry-standard SIP multimedia protocol. While, Nortels Global Services portfolio provides a wide variety of network application, implementation, management and support services for end-to-end, multi-vendor, multi-technology networks.

Using Nortel solutions, TELMEX will develop Hosted IP PBX solutions to ensure business enterprises the advantages of unified communications application along with audio and video conferencing, collaboration tools, mobility applications.

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Acknowledging India as a potential market for VoIP, Nortel has decided to establish a global Network Management Centre (NMC) in Delhi.

The Delhi centre would be third major NMC of Nortel. The first two centers are located in London and California. The Delhi NMC is also Nortels first major VoIP network centre in Asia.

Canada-based VoIP outfit has reached out a five-year agreement with Indian mobile service provider Bharti Airtel. Under the agreement, Nortel would host Airtels contact centre and interactive voice response services in several languages.

Ravi Chauhan, Nortel Indias Managing Director explained,

we are alone in offering an end-to-end solution for telecom network management, including the industry’s first real time support for VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephony with voice quality.

Nortel will start trials this month in the Delhi and Gurgaon areas for fixed WiMax broadband Internet.

With more than 100 million mobile phone subscribers, India is now a potential VoIP market. It is the fifth largest country in the world in terms of mobile phone subscribers.

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Nortel Networks Corp unveiled about a new IP telephony initiative, which offers a standard package of hardware and software. It promises to cut the customers upfront cost by 30 per cent.

According to Nortel officials, the aim of IPT 1-2-3 is to make simple the purchase process for large North American companies in order to stimulate upgrades from traditional telephony to IP-based systems.

A diversified engineering firm, Power Engineers has approximately 300 Nortel IP phones, another 400 circuit-switched phones and related IP switching gear at 18 domestic and three foreign offices.

The Power Engineers Company has spent $1.3 million on Nortel communications in six years. The half of the spending is already recouped due to the savings resulting from the use of IP telephony systems. The charges of conference calls are up to $14,000 per month using AT&T Inc. services was eliminated with a $140,000 investment in a Nortel MCS 5100 server.

Power Engineers has realized some savings on toll calls are now conducting over VoIP phones.

Via: COMPUTERWORLD

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Business makes strange bedfellows. In an example of this, Nortel Networks Corp. has entered into a partnership with formidable rivals Huawei Technologies of China in order to cash in as fast as it can from burgeoning market for high-speed Internet access products.

Nortel now is planning a joint venture with Huawei that will possibly form a new company in Ottawa to sell gear that converges voice, video and data over a single network.

Even as they are finalizing the details, the tango (or at least the music) seems to have started already when they announced to have signed a supply agreement that will see Nortel begin selling some of Huawei’s technology immediately.

Source: Globe and Mail