BT gaat samenwerking met Siemens Communications en Nortel aan voor het leveren van de apparatuur, het onderhoud en de ondersteuning van spraaksystemen en de spraakinfrastructuur van BT's klanten wereldwijd.
BT is nu al in meer dan 120 landen verantwoordelijk voor het beheer en onderhoud van een gevarieerde reeks PBX-benodigdheden en andere spraaksystemen. Siemens gaat BT helpen met het onderhoud en de ondersteuning van deze omgevingen en heeft hiervoor een team van 60.000 mensen verspreid over 150 landen beschikbaar. Door de samenwerking met Nortel kunnen klanten gebruik maken van de jarenlange ervaring met geconvergeerde spraak en data. Klanten kunnen hierdoor in elk gewenst tempo de overstap maken naar VoIP.
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SIEMENS COMMUNICATIONS AND NORTEL TO SUPPORT BT'S GLOBAL CLIENT VOICE INFRASTRUCTURE
BT announced today that it is working with Siemens Communications and Nortel* to provide equipment, maintenance and support services for the voice systems and infrastructure used by BT's multi-national customers.
BT is responsible for the management and maintenance of a diverse range of PBX equipment and other customer voice systems in over 120 countries. BT's network of global and regional operation centres already provides multi-national customers with service management on a country-by-country basis. In conjunction with Siemens Communications and Nortel, BT will now offer increased global reach to help customers optimise their expenditure on voice infrastructure, and to prepare them for migration to IP Telephony and voice over IP (VoIP) platforms.
Humphrey Penney, Director for BT's Commercial & International Solutions, said: "These agreements with Siemens and Nortel will help accelerate the delivery of key client programs including those focused on voice and IP convergence. BT is experiencing substantial growth in ICT revenues, driven by our vision of delighting customers through end-to-end value propositions based on better service and significant improvements to client business operations at lower cost."
Graham Walker, Managing Director, Siemens Communications, said: "BT faces complex challenges in delivering communications services to the world's most demanding multi-nationals - Siemens Communications is delighted to have been chosen to help overcome them. Siemens' global reach, unrivalled technical expertise and complementary development strategy will build on a commercial relationship more than 20 years old to support BT's business now and far into the future."
Siemens will assist BT in providing maintenance and support for multi-vendor environments all around the world - leveraging its 60,000-strong team across 150 countries. This local management of global relationships helps to simplify and accelerate the delivery of both ongoing maintenance and key client programmes - such as the convergence of communications systems to support evolving customer business needs.
Mark Weeks, Nortel's Managing Director for the BT Group, said: "Nortel has a 13 year history of working with BT in Europe to provide business-critical ICT solutions that help to secure, protect and power the operations of some of the world's largest, most demanding global organisations. By developing the ability to jointly deliver these solutions on a global basis, customers will benefit from the combination of BT's market-leading end-to-end service and solution excellence, seamlessly powered by Nortel's converged business solutions."
Nortel delivers solutions through which all mission-critical enterprise applications are provided seamlessly, securely, in real-time and with high levels of performance. Comprising a carrier-grade portfolio that supports a full complement of call servers, gateways, IP switching, routing & firewalls, multimedia applications and clients, Nortel allows collaboration between geographically-dispersed employees as effectively as if they were in the same office. In addition, Nortel solutions are able to bring together disparate communications networks spanning multi-vendor environments. Nortel customers are able to migrate at their own pace to meet their individual business case objectives.
About BT
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Its principal activities include IT and networking services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services.
BT consists principally of three lines of business:
- BT Retail, providing a comprehensive range of communications and related services to over 20m UK consumers and businesses.
- BT Wholesale, providing network services and solutions within the UK to more than 600 fixed and mobile operators and service providers including the provision of broadband and private circuits.
- BT Global Services, providing IT and networking services to meet the needs of multi-site organisations globally. BT Global Services operates in more than 130 countries and also offers international carrier services.
In the year ended 31 March 2004, BT Group's turnover was £18,519 million with profit before goodwill amortisation, exceptional items and taxation of £2,013 million.
BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group.
For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt or contact the BT Group Newsroom on its 24-hour number: 020 7356 5369. From outside the UK dial + 44 20 7356 5369.
About Siemens Communications:
Siemens Communications is one of the largest players in the global telecommunications industry. Siemens is the only provider in the market that offers its customers a full-range portfolio, from devices for end users to complex network infrastructures for enterprises and carriers as well as related services. Siemens Communications is the world's innovation leader in convergent technologies, products and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. It is the largest Group within Siemens and operates in more than 160 countries around the world. In fiscal 2004 (year-end September 30), its 60,000-strong workforce posted sales of approximately 18 billion euros.
Visit the website at www.siemens.com/communications or for UK specific information at www.siemenscomms.co.uk
For further information, please contact:
Marie-Claire Rees at Siemens Communications
01908 855181 or marie-claire.rees@siemens.com Neil Jessiman or Paul Nolan at Companycare Communications
0118 9395900 or siemens@companycare.com
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest challenges. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
For further information, please contact:
Ben Roome at Nortel
+44 (0)1628 433113 or benroome@nortel.com
* Nortel is a trademark of Nortel Networks.