04.February.02 - Siemens Announces New HiPath IP... -
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Published on: 2/4/2002
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"As we move through a very difficult economic environment worldwide it is becoming important for enterprises to re-evaluate all vendor relationships, in order to align themselves with the suppliers that are best positioned to survive in the long run," said Joe Gagan of the Yankee Group."Siemens, a multinational conglomerate with a presence in 192 countries and serving a wide breadth of industries, is the type of company that enterprise decision makers will take a closer look at when implementing their long term strategic goals," he continued."Given the change in technology going on right now in the telephone system industry, from proprietary TDM voice switches to open server platforms operating on the LAN, we believe that the opportunity has presented itself for there to be some market share redistribution here in the U.S., toward the vendors that are able to execute from both a development and sales perspective," Gagan concluded.
Key New Communication Platforms In The HiPath Portfolio
The HiPath 3000 family of IP communication platforms is targeted at small to medium-sized enterprises as well as edge locations medium-to-large enterprises.In conjunction with the HiPath AllServe networking solution, the HiPath 3000 can scale to 1000 users.It supports circuit-switched, packet-switched or mixed system configurations and all optiset E and optiPoint telephones, as well as adapters and IP soft clients.The HiPath 3000 family of platforms offers centralized administration and leverages open interfaces and industry standards.
The HiPath 4000 family of IP communication platforms is targeted at medium-to-large enterprises and scales to 100,000 users.Like the HiPath 3000 family, it supports circuit-switched, packet-switched or mixed configurations of systems and all optiset E and optiPoint telephones, as well as adapters and IP soft clients.