Lucent outlines IP telephony strategy
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By John Rendleman, PC Week Online
05.07.98 12:59 pm ET
zdnet.com
LAS VEGAS--During the next year, Lucent
Technologies Inc. will work to integrate its
Internet telephony products with current
telephone systems, tailoring the products to
accommodate the way business customers use communications tools in
real-life applications.
This focus by Lucent's Data Networking Systems Division will help shift
IP telephony for voice, fax and multimedia traffic "out of the Tinker toy
stage and into real business applications," said William O'Shea, group
president of the division.
O'Shea spoke at a press briefing here Wednesday at
NetWorld+Interop.
Lucent will continue enhancing its current products--which include the
Internet Telephony Server products for the enterprise and service
providers and Multimedia Communications eXchange Release 2.1 IP
conferencing system--to add robustness and ease of use, O'Shea said.
For IP telephony systems to be valuable business tools, the technology
"is going to have to be reliable, and it's going to have to be close to or
equal to the reliability of existing telephone systems," he said, through
scalability, administration features and common industry standards.
Lucent's strategy for IP telephony includes the addition of new and
enhanced products and gatekeeper and network management features in
the first half of this year, followed by better manageability, scalability and
performance in the second half of the year, he said.
Also in the second half, Lucent will deliver plug-and-play gateways and
applications, gateway-independent applications and dedicated gateways
on the Internet Telephony Server, he said.
Next year [hello?!], Lucent will concentrate on delivering feature cards in its
remote access servers and switches, with an emphasis on dedicated and
integrated gateways and more sophisticated applications and
applications services, he said.
Lucent, of Murray Hills, N.J., can be reached at www.lucent.com.
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