Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Among the VoIP Manufacturers

Avaya (www.avaya.com)

Avaya makes a wide variety of communications systems and software, including voice, converged voice and data, customer relationship management, messaging multiservice networking, and structured cabling products and services. According to Gartner, Avaya’s “status as a leader is in part based on the architecture of its Avaya MultiVantage Communications Applications suite, which emphasizes an extensive feature set, scalability, consistent user interface, call processing power, and investment protection.”

Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com)

Cisco Systems makes networking solutions and network hardware and software, including converging voice and data products. According to Gartner, Cisco has “leveraged its strength in large-scale LAN infrastructure markets to win mind share among early adopters of converged networks. Its dealers are extremely effective in selling IT organizations, where many traditional telephony vendors are gaining credibility.”

Alcatel (www.alcatel.com)

Alactel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers, and enterprises. A publicly traded company with fifty-six thousand employees worldwide, Alcatel’s focus is the delivery of voice, data, and video applications to customers and employees. Their OmniPCX communications platform enables a company to selectively operate using traditional or IP telephony methods. The platform is capable of supporting hybrid operations as well.

Siemens (www.siemens.com)

Siemens is a publicly traded company that manufactures electronics and equipment for a range of industries, including information and communications, automation and control, power generation, transportation, medical, and lighting. They provide mobile communication and telephone communication systems to businesses and mobile phones and accessories to consumers. Siemens employs approximately seventy thousand people in the United States and four-hundred-thirty thousand worldwide, with global sales of more than $91 billion in 2004.

NEC (www.nec.com)

Founded in 1905, NEC makes products ranging from computer hardware and software to wireless and IP telephony systems. For the fiscal year ending March 2005, NEC recorded more than $624 million in revenue. They employ about one-hundred-fifty thousand people worldwide.

According to Gartner, “NEC’s portfolio offers various levels of converged IP capabilities, a multitude of features, scalability, and investment protection. Their platforms have an excellent reputation in the education, hospitality, and healthcare vertical markets, with attributes that can attract other organizations with distributed campus environments. NEC Unified Solutions strategy offers a menu of services that support the planning, implementation, network readiness and ongoing service needs of IP telephony.”

Yealink (www.yealink.com)

Yealink is professional designer and manufacturer of IP phones and video phones for the world-wide broadband telephony market. Yealink products are fully compatible with the SIP industry standard, and have broad interoperability with the major IP-PBX, softswitch and IMS on the market today. High-quality, easy to use and affordable price-are what Yealink strive all the time to meet.

Founded in 2001 in Xiamen, China, Yealink has 9 years VoIP experience and has been 100% focusing on VoIP products. Also the core team has 16 years experience in telephone. More than 60 R&D VoIP engineers prove the innovative strength of the company by developing new VoIP product and technology constantly. All of these guarantee and backup Yealink's possibility of constantly providing world-class IP phone and establish Yealink as one of the leading designers and manufactures.

Yealink phones are characterized by a large number of functions which simplify the businesses communication with high standard of security and can work seamlessly with a large number of compatible IP-PBX that support Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Yealink also distinguished itself by years of experience at tailoring up the customized needs of different levels of businesses to ensure Yealink's customers benefit from the interoperability and flexibility of the phones and from the compatibility of all kind of SIP-based telephone system.

Shoretel(www.shoretel.com)

Shoretel, founded in 1998, is a privately held company that is all about IP telephony. Their approach is to evaluate your network first before designing a solution. The idea here is to determine how ready you are first, before taking the step into VoIP convergence.

According to Gartner, Shoretel’s “product architecture gives organizations distributed call control across multiple locations through an IP backbone that supports the use of IP and analog telephones. This enables organizations to implement a converged network at their own pace.”

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