Two Chamberlain hotels will use a single Alcatel 4400 digital communications platform to support their hotel management systems and enable improved facilities to customers such as ISDN links, videoconferencing facilities and voice messaging.
The new generation of Cisco products combines the functions of data networks and voice networks, and distributors have traditionally specialised in one or the other. The seven Cisco Distribution Partners for Europe are Acal, Algol, Azlan, Comstor...
In hosted services, all of the call control is managed in the network, allowing small-time users to benefit from hunt groups, call diversion, voice mail, short codes, picking up from another extension and about a hundred other functions.
The enhanced PNN3 will include voice over IP and videoconferencing for internal and force-to-force communications. Cable & Wireless (C&W) has won a £75m deal to provide managed voice, data, video, internet and hosting services to all police forces...
Developed by the 3GPP, an industry partnership defining the technical standards for 3G networks, IMS is also being adopted by the fixed-line community.continued on next page. O'Boyle says: "Converged operators will need to change everything from...
Outsourcing comes in many guises, from full management of a voice and data network, to management of a broad range of IT or business functions such as call centres. This requires a more integrated approach to communications - voice, data, fixed and...