Alcatel heeft de overname bekendgemaakt van de technologie van Aravox Technologies Corp., een private onderneming uit Arden Hills in Minnesota, USA. De technologie van Aravox wordt onderdeel van Alcatel's Next Generation Networks.
Het Next Generation Network portfolio van Alcatel biedt geavanceerde turnkey Voice over IP oplossingen. Hiermee kunnen service providers de kosten van hun infrastructuur verlagen en hun netwerken voorbereiden op real-time IP-applicaties. Deze overname stelt Alcatel in staat om de waarde van haar oplossingen op gebied van Next Generation Networking voor klanten verder te verhogen. Alcatel is één van de marktleiders op gebied van softswitching en biedt haar klanten complete oplossingen voor voice-over-packet en multimediatoepassingen. De technologie van Aravox draagt daarin bij aan betrouwbare en veilige Voice over IP-toepassingen.
Voor nadere informatie:
Alcatel Telecom Nederland/Eva Fodor
T. 070 - 3079 815
E. eva.fodor@alcatel.nl
Het volledige persbericht:
Alcatel to acquire the technology of Aravox Technologies Corp.
The acquisition confirms Alcatel at the forefront of the market for Voice over IP solutions
with Carrier Class security and quality of service
Paris, January 30, 2003 – Alcatel (Paris : CGEP.P and NYSE : ALA) today announced the acquisition of the technology of Aravox Technologies Corp., a privately held company in Arden Hills, Minnesota. Aravox's technology will become a part of Alcatel's Next Generation Network offer.
Alcatel's Next Generation Network portfolio offers to service providers advanced Voice over IP turnkey solutions, which decrease infrastructure costs and prepare networks for value-added real-time applications. Aravox's technology within Alcatel's solutions makes real-time packet peering over IP both secure and highly available.
"Quality of Service (QoS) enabled Voice over IP networks will be the beginning of a powerful transformation in the way residential and business services are made available by service providers," said Michel Rahier, President of Alcatel's fixed network activities. "The acquisition of this technology by Alcatel will significantly enhance the value of our next generation network solutions offered to our customers and will drive the transition to value-added real-time IP applications."
Christin J. Flynn, Director Communications Network Infrastructure, The Yankee Group, adds "In a global research project regarding plans to deploy a packet voice architecture, 73% of wireline service providers indicated that they were either testing or had implemented some form of packet voice in their networks today. Packet voice is clearly here to stay. Alcatel's acquisition of Aravox will enable the company to aggressively address issues of carrier-to-carrier interconnect and support for IP PBX's, two of the most critical issues for these providers."
Alcatel is one of the industry leaders in next generation softswitching, offering to service providers complete solutions for voice-over-packet and multimedia applications. The acquisition of Aravox technology strengthens Alcatel’s Next Generation Network product portfolio by adding a session border controller to the Alcatel 5020 Softswitch based solutions. The Aravox session border controller, relying on the IETF Midcom standard, makes real-time packet peering over IP secure and ensures quality of service and high availability of network resources to the end-to-end communications it controls. With this acquisition of technology, Alcatel offers a complete solution for both carrier-to-carrier peering and service provider-to-enterprise peering.
About Alcatel
Alcatel designs, develops and builds innovative and competitive communications networks, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. Relying on its leading and comprehensive products and solutions portfolio, stretching from end-to-end optical infrastructures, fixed and mobile networks to broadband access, Alcatel's customers can focus on optimizing their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of EURO 25 billion in 2001, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com