TORONTO -Nortel* [OTC: NRTLQ] announced significant product enhancements to its carrier voice and multimedia product offerings that will allow service providers to increase network capacity, upgrade their networks more quickly and also improve the communication experience for residential and business subscribers.
These new enhancements, which are expected to be available in the third quarter of 2009, include the latest software releases of the Nortel's& Communication Server (CS) 2000 & softswitch (Rel CVM13) and Nortel's& Adaptive Application Server SIP & software engine (Rel A2E 7.0 SP1).
"Nortel is committed to its CVAS R&D and innovation as evident in these new product enhancements that offer more than 100 new end user features and give carriers more flexibility and capacity," said Samih Elhage, president, Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions, Nortel. "We're leveraging our industry leadership in VoIP, multimedia and communications-enabled applications to unleash a more robust communications experience for subscribers that also provide new revenue opportunities for carriers as well as reduce operations costs."
These product enhancements reflect consumer subscriber demands based on a recent Carrier Communications Application Market& Study & commissioned by Nortel and conducted by Harris Interactive®. For the study Harris surveyed 2,400 people in nine countries (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan and South Korea) between December 2008 and January 2009.
"Nortel's latest CVAS portfolio enhancements increase the company's competitive standing in the hosted multimedia sector of the market," said Joe McGarvey, principal analyst, IP Services Infrastructure, Current Analysis. "Nortel's deep carrier VoIP and telephony expertise and progressive approach to providing rich IP communications, collaboration and conferencing applications can help carriers unlock untapped revenues and improve subscriber retention."
New core features introduced in Nortel's CS 2000 IP Multimedia softswitch provide a 66 percent increase in core VoIP capacity while drastically improving software upgrade times by 70 percent over prior releases. Core enhancements to Nortel's Adaptive Application Engine SIP server provide up to a 280 percent increase in SIP lines capacity.
Nortel is offering the industry's first implementation of a SIP application server engine that can be deployed simultaneously or independently in any of three scenarios: as a stand-alone SIP Application Server, as a 3GPP IMS-compliant application server or as an upgrade for carrier customers who have already deployed Nortel's CS 2000.
Nortel's new product enhancements include more than 100 new end user features. Highlights include:
To get more info on Nortel's global study with Harris:
To request a copy of the study findings, visit Nortel's IP Powered Home& microsite & and fill out the online form.
Nortel continues to innovate in business and voice solutions as well as class 5 and transit and Multimedia Interconnect solutions. Nortel expects to introduce the next release of CS 2000 and Adaptive Application Engine, CVM14 and A2E 8.0 respectively, in the first half of 2010. Earlier this month, Nortel& introduced & new upgrades to its CS 1500 solution.
Recently published reports from Dell'Oro Group and Infonetics Research& ranked Nortel & as the worldwide leader with the largest revenues in the carrier softswitch market for the first quarter of 2009. Nortel has shipped more than 110 million Carrier VoIP and Multimedia ports to more than 340 wireline and wireless carriers globally. In addition, Nortel provides VoIP solutions to two thirds of IDC's worldwide listing of top 20 carriers (by revenue).
To learn more about Nortel's Carrier Voice and Multimedia Solutions, visit the& IP Powered Life microsite .
Nortel delivers communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com . For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news .
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