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Nortel and IBM Team to Deliver Simple and Cost-effective Unified Communications for SMBs

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• Author: Adam S Gartenberg
• June 12, 2007
• Category:  Sametime 

IBM and Nortel announced today plans for a Unified Communications bundle targeted at the SMB community that will combine Nortel technology and Lotus Sametime on the System i platform.  

ARMONK, NEW YORK and TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 12, 2007) - Nortel(1) (TSX:NT)(NYSE:NT) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today unveiled plans to deliver a simple and cost-effective solution for businesses that makes the move to IP telephony and unified communications as easy as a software upgrade. As part of IBM's unified communications and collaboration (UC2) strategy, this new solution will combine leading software and hardware from IBM with advanced IP telephony and multimedia capabilities from Nortel.

The Nortel-IBM System i Unified Communications solution, targeting small to medium businesses (SMBs) and branch offices, will integrate IBM's System i business computing platform and the IBM Lotus Sametime unified communications and collaboration platform with Nortel's suite of VoIP and multimedia technologies into a complete Unified Communications solution that runs on a single system.

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The integration with Lotus Sametime will deliver advanced telephony plug-ins to Lotus Sametime's existing unified communication and collaboration tools, which include capabilities such as instant messaging (IM), Web conferencing, mobile device support and voice and video chat. The Nortel-IBM System i Unified Communications solution will provide users the flexibility to select the method of collaboration best suited for the task at hand along with the integration and reliability of the System i platform. For example, Lotus Sametime users will be able to review their contact list to determine who is on their Nortel phone, and also click-to-call or click-to-conference, to immediately connect with contacts via their Nortel telephony system on System i.

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Press Release:  Nortel and IBM Team to Deliver Simple and Cost-effective Unified Communications for SMBs

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