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Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With 79,000 employees and operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved proforma combined revenues of Euro 18.6 billion in 2005, and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures exclude impact of activities to be transferred to Thales]. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
Avaya Inc. is a company headquartered in New Jersey, USA who designs, manufactures and sells advanced communication systems for over 1 million customers in the World. We have offices in over 90 countries and over 18.000 employees, our FY 2003 (October 1, 2002 to September 30, 2003) were 4.33 billion USD. >>The company is quoted in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under AV. Avaya was created in October 1 2000 as a spin-off of the former Enterprise Network Division of Lucent Technologies. >>Our product portfolio includes converged voice/data solutions, IP Telephony, call center hardware and applications and Unified Messaging solutions. The company is rated as the #1 US supplier of Enterprise Telephony (Source: Gartner Inc.), #2 World and USA supplier of IP Telephony (Source: Synergy Research Group), #1 World supplier of Voice Messaging(Source In-Stat/MDR), Unified Communication(Source The Pelorus Group) and Unified Messaging (Source Radicati) and is also the largest Call Center supplier of North America (Source Frost & Sullivan), Western Europe (Source Gartner Inc.) and Asia/Pacific (Source: Frost & Sullivan).
Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations.
With more than a century of experience in shaping the evolution of communications, Nortel continues its tradition of innovation today by providing secure solutions that ignite and power global commerce while helping solve the world's greatest challenges.
Nortel's leading portfolio of solutions spanning packet, optical, wireless and voice technologies are at the very foundation of the world's economy, powering global commerce and delivering innovative network capabilities to connect rural and underdeveloped regions.
Working together with its customers in 150 countries, Nortel is improving the human experience by fundamentally changing how the world works and how people communicate, creating unique capabilities for business, education, entertainment and security through reliable data and voice technologies.
Drawing on its fundamental understanding of the network - both voice and data - Nortel secures computing, network applications and end-user environments while maintaining five 9s of reliability. Nortel helps governments, businesses and individuals stay ahead of threats including hacker intrusion, worms, denial of service attacks, identity theft, and by delivering enhanced network management capabilities.
Whether supporting billions of transactions by a financial institution, providing vital information services for healthcare or helping education heighten learning experiences through the most advanced technologies, Nortel solutions are at work wherever reliable data and voice communications are most critical.
The Munich-based Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG was established in October 2006 as a whollyowned subsidiary of Siemens AG. It is one of the world’s leading providers of Open Communications solutions. More than 15,000 employees in 80 countries develop and implement a forward-looking portfolio of products, solutions and services for the optimization of business processes. Focused on the needs of our customers, our solutions are innovative, secure and flexible – from end-user devices and global enterprise networks to Managed Services. Based on open standards, they can be integrated seamlessly into existing infrastructures.
Siemens Communications is a thought leader and innovator in the enterprise communications industry. We're one of the leading players in the market with full coverage of all the relevant markets from a strong European base with global reach. Our people have the passion, commitment, skills and know-how to deliver a broad range of cutting-edge technologies, outstanding products and professional services.
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Enterasys is owned by a private investor group led by The Gores Group, LLC and Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC. Enterasys delivers Secure Networks™ that ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IT services and the business users that rely on them – without sacrificing performance. Thousands of enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions in more than 70 countries worldwide rely on our convergence, connectivity and compliance solutions to deliver business-oriented, policy-based visibility and control of individual user and application priority and security. The company's culture is centered on the principle, "There is nothing more important than our customers." Enterasys’ standards-based, open-architecture approach to network security offers a long technology lifecycle and significant operational and business benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership. Information about Enterasys’ award winning, policy-enabled switches, routers, wireless products, security software and services is available at www.enterasys.com.
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Avanzada 7 is a Spanish company 100% private one founded the March, 1st 2002, by a group of workers of the old Atlinks (Alcatel-Thomson joint venture). At a time of crisis generalized in the sector, the partners of Avanzada 7 identified the opportunity of business that appeared, within the field of the telecommunications, betting by the innovation to world-wide level, but working from the Technological Park of Malaga (Spain). With a team of professionals highly enabled in the world of the telephony it fixes and the telephony movable, it is concretely the telephony through Internet (VoIP) the one that greater wide-awake interest in our clients at this moment, every time Avanzada 7 comes promoting the project from switchboard of VoIP based on free Software (Asterisk) from November of the 2002, and is now when very many companies and administrations are considering their daily use like basic infrastructure for their communications due to their multiple advantages . From the precise moment in that the agreement of distribution of cards of communications of VoIP with the North American company was signed and main impeller of the Asterisk project (Digium) for Spain and Portugal, Avanzada 7 happened to become the Distributor of Value Added referring of all type of hardware of VoIP specially for Asterisk projects, working solely with its channel of distribution, forming to this channel, generating synergies between the members, offering technical support presale and postale, etc. All it without forgetting the obligations before the European authorities like importer with the rates by contamination paid electronic remainders, and with all commercialized products fulfilling ROHS norms. As complement on sale of products and services surroundings to the VoIP, Avanzada 7 offers a department of combined and multipurpose engineering to disposition of clients with development necessities. Avanzada 7 puts into the hands of the company that therefore requires an engineering of product development that diminishes the costs that an own department of these characteristics or their extension for certain tips of work raises, guaranteeing a fast answer to the necessities of the market. Since September of 2007, Avanzada 7 opens its new Branch at “TagusPark” Technology Park in Lisbon (Portugal). By this way, Avanzada 7 approaches even more to Portuguese market, since from this local office will be provided the same high-tech and high quality services as those provided from the Spanish mother company for value-added distribution, technical support and training over telecommunication VoIP products and Asterisk. This action will position the company as a national reference in this kind of technology.
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The SIP Forum is an IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that advance and promote SIP technology, such as the development of industry recommendations, the SIPit interoperability and testing events, special interoperability workshops, and general promotion of SIP in the industry. One of the Forum's recent technical activities is the development of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation -- a standards-based recommendation that provides detailed guidelines for direct IP peering and interoperability between IP PBXs and VoIP service provider networks, and the SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program through which eligible companies can gain SIPconnect validation and the right to license the use of the SIP Forum's 'SIPconnect Compliant' certification mark -- the official brand of the leading standard for SIP Trunking products and services. For more information, please visit: http://www.sipforum.org.
