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Telecommunications Has Microsoft snubbed Nortel for Mitel in unified comms demos?
Telecommunications Has Microsoft snubbed Nortel for Mitel in unified comms demos? | Has Microsoft snubbed Nortel for Mitel in unified comms demos? |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 01 November 2006 | |
  
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Shortly after this, Microsoft announced a four-year strategic alliance agreement with Nortel, with provisions for its extension. The agreement made Nortel Microsoft's strategic partner for advanced unified communications solutions and systems integration and the two companies formed the Innovative Communications Alliance (http://www.innovativecommunicationsalliance.com) as a go-to-market vehicle, described as "[a] unique agreement...[involving] a shared vision for the future of business communications and a shared strategy that involves tight integration at the technology, channel, business engagement and customer experience levels." Despite this, Mitel has now announced that its suite of unified communications solutions - comprised of the Mitel 3300 IP Communications Platform (ICP), Mitel Live Business Gateway, Mitel Navigator and the Mitel 5340 and 5224 IP Phones - will be used at Microsoft Technology Centres to provide demonstrations of rich telephony, presence and integration features based on Microsoft's unified communications (UC) solutions. "Mitel's suite demonstrates the powerful benefits of Microsoft's unified communications technologies through tightly integrated telephony, presence and collaboration features that enable clearer and faster decision making, increased productivity and efficiency and streamlined costs," said Adam Hecktman, director of the Microsoft Technology Center Chicago, and alliance member program manager for the Americas. "With a continued partnership in UC development and interworking, Mitel will showcase their solutions running on our technology within all of our MTC locations globally, allowing us to demonstrate the power unified communications to current and future customers." Mitel said the deployment was part of an agreement between the two companies to demonstrate the combined UC solution with advanced telephony integration. iTWire has been unable to find any announcement of similar arrangements with Nortel, or to confirm whether any are planned.{moscomment} |
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