Peppas believes the key adopters of any unified messaging service will be small and medium sized enterprises and home office workers who are already using email but have no access to legacy corporate phone systems.
German ISP (Internet service provider), 1&1 has bought a unified messaging system from Speech Design, a European subsidiary of Bogen Communications. Speech Design says its Thor software and server package will help 1&1 customers impose...
The Business Communications Server combines HP server technology with voice technology from Nortel, offering a unified platform for managing voice and data transfer. Hewlett-Packard (HP) has joined forces with Nortel Networks to develop a voice and...
Compaq, in partnership with TelePost, is offering a free unified-messaging service aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The Message Centre Lite service will allow customers to store emails, voice mail and faxes in a central Web site and...
Lucent Technologies is to offer telecoms service providers a unified messaging system. The Unified Messenger for Service Providers will incorporate Lucent's voice and fax messaging technology, with Microsoft Exchange used as the email component.
The European unified messaging market is set to explode, according to a recent report. Ian Rowlands, research analyst at the company, said unified messaging would become a standard service of mobile networks by the end of 2002.