Nortel implements an entire Microsoft Office Communications Server
environment for Telecom Liechtenstein
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND--(Marketwire - June 24, 2009) - Telecom
Liechtenstein AG, a telecommunications service provider serving more
than 5,000 enterprise customers in Liechtenstein, Austria and
Switzerland, is modernising its internal communications
infrastructure with a Unified Communications (UC) solution provided
by the Innovative Communications Alliance between Microsoft and
Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(OTCBB: NRTLQ).
Nortel is integrating Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS)
environment with the company's existing Nortel voice communication
infrastructure to enable unified communications applications that
will simplify and speed up business operations, improve the way
employees communicate and enhance customer service. The new system
will enable the 130 employees of Telecom Liechtenstein in Vaduz to
determine whether colleagues they wish to contact are available, and
then instantly make phone calls, start conference calls and send
e-mails and instant messages through a simple mouse 'click' on their
desktop.
The new unified communications network will also allow employees to
securely access the Telecom Liechtenstein corporate network via
mobile devices to retrieve information and respond more quickly to
enquiries. In a second phase of this implementation, Telecom
Liechtenstein plans to offer a hybrid network unified communications
solution to enterprise customers in Liechtenstein, Austria and
Switzerland.
"With the support of our longstanding partner Nortel, we have been
able to simply and inexpensively modernise our internal communication
network within a tight project timeframe of only eight weeks," said
Christoph Beck, NGN project manager, Telecom Liechtenstein. "The new
OCS environment will enable our employees to not only communicate
more efficiently, but also gain experience using new UC applications
to better help us roll out UC solutions externally."
"Telecom Liechtenstein will derive considerable future benefits from
the unified communications solutions enabled by our Innovative
Communications Alliance," said Rolf Weidmann, sales director, Service
Providers, Nortel. "Unified communications bring speed and simplicity
to business processes and improve operations. These new capabilities
can also provide Telecom Liechtenstein with new and innovative
business opportunities because many small and medium-sized
enterprises could use Telecom Liechtenstein's hybrid service to
leverage the productivity enhancements that unified communications
offers themselves."
Nortel also provided system integration services to support
implementing Microsoft's Office Communications Server environment
with the Telecom Liechtenstein network upgrade.
Enterprise Innovative Communications Alliance solutions from Nortel
and Microsoft span four key areas: Voice, Telephony and Unified
Messaging; Unified Communications Integrated Branch; Multimedia
Conferencing; and Data Networking. The ICA is delivering new
solutions that empower customers to realize the productivity
potential of their organization by communications-enabling their
business processes. The ICA has chalked up more than 1200 wins with
more than 200 Nortel service deployments globally.
About Nortel
Nortel delivers communications capabilities that make the promise of
Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation
technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks,
support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's
technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to
efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and
connecting people to the information they need, when they need it.
For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For
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