Bangkok--Jun 25--Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today introduced DEFINITY? IP Solutions to business customers at the CommunicAsia ’99 Singapore (June 22-25). The new software and hardware adds IP telephony capabilities to Lucent flagship DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server (ECS) and DEFINITY ProLogix? Solutions. Customers can now employ the benefits of Internet Protocol (IP) applications on their corporate networks while retaining the same unparalleled reliability, scalability, and robust features and applications they expect from the market-leading PBX. Developed by Bell Labs, DEFINITY IP Solutions allow businesses to send voice, fax and e-mail communications over their local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), Intranets and the Internet. The new solution includes a circuit pack, which provides both IP trunk and IP station features. A IP SoftPhone that allows a PC or laptop to operate as a fully featured telephone, and an IP telephone deskset.
"DEFINITY IP Solutions gives businesses the best of both worlds: the richness of voice communications and the flexibility of IP," said John Winchester, president, Business Communications Systems, Asia Pacific & China, Lucent Technologies. "The DEFINITY system has evolved to support key technologies as they emerge, including ATM, SNMP, CTI, and wireless. With the simple addition of a card and software, businesses can turntheir DEFINITY systems into highly functional, IP telephony servers, and do it withoutchanging their existing voice and data networks, disrupting service or retraining users and administrators. We created a path to IP that will allow our customers to bridge their existinginvestment in voice systems, LANS and WANs without sacrificing the high reliability, rangeof applications and quality they have long become accustomed to." DEFINITY IP Solutions provide an easy and cost-effective way to move voice traffic over IP networks. The converged infrastructure lowers cost of network ownership and makes network administration easy. Depending on business needs and requirements to Quality of Service users can have an option for when, where & how to deploy IP technology.
About DEFINITY IP Solutions Software
The DEFINITY IP Solutions software operates both as an IP gateway and gatekeeper. As a gateway it converts voice traffic to data for transmission over IP networks. As a gatekeeper, it provides IP endpoints with secure access to the DEFINITY system. Users can take advantage of all applications residing on the system, including voice mail, computer-telephone integration, call Centre, wireless, and call control features such as conferencing, call forward, transfer, hold, speed-dial, and multiple line appearances.
The software supports centralized voice mail and attendant operations across multiple sites. The DEFINITY IP Solutions software can be managed through the server's existing systems administration tools, and can take advantage of the DEFINITY system's call routing, cost accounting, self-diagnostics, security, toll fraud protection, and remote access applications. It enables IP telephones to communicate with analog, digital and ISDN phones on the DEFINITY network, and supports the H.323 protocols and standard application programming interfaces, including TAPI, TSAPI and JTAPI.
About IP SoftPhone and IP Ethernet Telephone
The DEFINITY IP SoftPhone turns a PC or a laptop into an advanced telephone. Its intuitive interface gives on-site and remote users the ability to access all the applications offered by the DEFINITY through a single IP connection – from voice messaging to call control to call Centres. The SoftPhone allows users to receive a screen-pop based on calling name and number. In addition, the software can be configured in a "dual connect" mode, allowing the DEFINITY to send voice across the circuit-switched network for toll-quality audio. The software supports the H.323 protocol and is interoperable with Microsoft's NetMeeting? and Intel's ProShare?.
The DEFINITY IP Ethernet Telephone is a multi-line, multi-button telephone set that provides access to the DEFINITY system through an Ethernet connection to the local area networkDEFINITY IP Solutions joins a number of products Lucent has developed to help businesses evolve their networks to take advantage of IP applications, including:
* DEFINITY IP Trunk Interface - provides the DEFINITY ECS and ProLogix Solutions with the ability to route voice and fax calls over the Internet and intranets.
* MultiMedia Communications Exchange (MMCX) – enables real-time, spontaneous conferencing using voice, video and data across a business’ local area networks and wide area networks.
* PacketStar? Internet Telephony Server – an NT-based server that lets any PBX, including the DEFINITY system, route voice and fax calls over the Internet or intranets.
* Internet Call Centre – allows customers to simultaneously browse a web site while speaking with a business’ service representative over a single IP line.At the CommunicAsia ’99 exhibition in Singapore, Lucent will demonstrate its DEFINITY IP Solutions. The first phase of the DEFINITY IP Solutions which will include DEFINITY IP Trunk, will be available this summer in Asia. The second phase will be available in the fourth quarter of 1999.
About the DEFINITY System
Lucent's market-leading DEFINITY Systems include its flagship DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server (ECS) for large businesses (200 to 25,000 users) and its DEFINITY ProLogix Solutions for mid-sized businesses (40 to 400 users). The highly reliable (99.999 percent), upgradable servers have been designed to support a range of multi-media applications and technologies, including call Centres, wireless, messaging, and voice, video and data conferencing.
About Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey (U.S.), designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of the company. The company's Web site is http://www.lucent.com. For information on Lucent Technologies Business Communication Systems in Asia Pacific see http://www.lucent.com/bcs_apac.
Developed by Bell Labs, DEFINITY IP Solutions allow businesses to send voice, fax and e-mail communications over their local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), Intranets and the Internet. The new solution includes a circuit pack, which provides both IP trunk and IP station features. A IP SoftPhone that allows a PC or laptop to operate as a fully featured telephone, and an IP telephone deskset. End.