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Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 13 June 2007 11:58
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In a move that appears to mimic Nortel's high profile alliance with Microsoft, IBM and Nortel have unveiled plans to combine Nortel's IP telephony technologies and IBM's unified communications products to "deliver a simple and cost-effective solution for businesses that makes the move to IP telephony and unified communications as easy as a software upgrade."This will be complemented by a portfolio of SIP clients and support connectivity to Nortel's portfolio of voice and data products for SMBs (Business Communications Manager (BCM), Business Ethernet Switch (BES), Business Secure Router (BSR) and Business Access Point (BAP).) The IBM System i originated as the AS/400 introduced in 1988. It was renamed to the eServer iSeries in 2000 as part of IBM's e-Server branding initiative and renamed System i in 2006.
According to Mark Shearer, general manager, IBM System I, "The Nortel-IBM System i Unified Communications solution will be designed to run the business processing and real-time collaboration needs of a small or medium-sized business simultaneously with IP telephony on a single system, so IT employees can focus on the business, not managing technology."
The whole deal sounds remarkably similar to the Nortel Microsoft Innovative Communications Alliance, announced in July 2006, fleshed out by the respective CEOs in January 2007 and officially launched in Australia in May 2007.
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