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Nortel Makes IP Enterprise Telephony as Easy as IPT 1-2-314 June 2006
Nortel(*) (NYSE/TSX: NT) today launched an aggressive initiative designed to increase the adoption of IP telephony (IPT) throughout North American enterprises. The initiative, called IPT 1-2-3, provides simple, easy to implement options that help enterprises achieve a wide range of business benefits by migrating or upgrading to IPT at their own pace and at a more affordable cost.
"Nortel realizes that in today's business environment companies need to be agile, and the first step toward a more flexible, competitive business begins with a company's communications network," said Eric Schoch, vice president, North American Marketing, Channels and Distribution, Nortel. "IP telephony is one of the foundational elements of a more flexible, secure and reliable converged network designed to help enterprises boost employee productivity, increase customer satisfaction, drive profitability and recover quickly from disasters or emergencies."
Nortel's IPT 1-2-3 initiative combines the Company's extensive expertise in IP with a broad portfolio of voice and data solutions to give customers migration options tailored to their business needs for either transforming their networks to IP or evolving gradually. As part of the IPT 1-2-3 program, Nortel will make it easier for customers to adopt IP Telephony by offering standard pre-configured packages that include voice and data components needed for successful IP telephony implementation.
To support the IPT 1-2-3 initiative, Nortel is investing in new channel partner sales and support tools to give partners access to the right IP telephony solutions and migration plans that best fit the needs of each customer. Tighter integration between Nortel and its partners is expected to drive collaborative business and marketing planning to more effectively service installed base customers, as well as new IP telephony deployments.
"The IPT 1-2-3 initiative will allow us to simplify enterprise IP telephony project planning and deployment, providing a smooth customer migration experience," said Robert Tasker, vice president, Network and Voice Product Management, TELUS. "Nortel is putting in place the right channel support tools and training programs to help us quickly and efficiently implement converged solutions for our customers, allowing enterprises to increase their business agility by taking full advantage of unified communications, contact center and other valuable multimedia applications."
IP telephony is expected to be the most significant area of investment in enterprise voice and data communication over the next 12 months, according to a Nortel survey of more than 750 members of the International Nortel Networks User Association (INNUA). The survey indicated that 89 percent of respondents have already started to deploy or plan to deploy IP telephony within the next five years. The survey also showed that of those who have fully or partially deployed IP telephony, 83 percent have migrated less than 25 percent of their voice traffic to IP.
"Nortel is recognized as the global leader in IP voice line shipments for the entire year of 2005 and the first quarter of 2006 by Dell'Oro Group and Infonetics Research. Who is better suited than we are to help our large installed base migrate to IP telephony while laying the groundwork for new convergence customers? No one," said Schoch. "We realize that many customers think IP migration is complex, and that is exactly why Nortel is bringing to market pre-configured, easy to implement packages and solutions that make IP telephony as simple as IPT 1-2-3."
One of the greatest benefits of voice and data convergence is the ability to deploy new multimedia applications, as well as reduced network costs. As part of IPT 1-2-3, Nortel is offering customers high value incentive and migration upgrade programs for unified messaging, self-service and contact center solutions. Enterprises can more cost effectively deliver a breakthrough customer experience as they leverage new applications and technology to create a proactive relationship with customers versus a reactive one.
"With 17 national and 3 international offices, voice service is not just another application on a data network-it's mission critical-and Nortel was able to provide us with a graceful, cost effective migration to IP," said TR Bowlin, infrastructure manager, Power Engineers. "Nortel's IP telephony solutions allow our employees to quickly reach each other and customers through the most effective methods-voice calls, instant messaging, e-mail or conferencing. This approach helps improve our productivity while reducing network costs."
Nortel has a long history of deploying mission critical networks; more than 97 percent of Fortune 500 and 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies have purchased solutions from Nortel. Nortel is providing IP telephony and multimedia solutions to some of the world's leading enterprises, including Erlanger Healthcare, City of San Jose, City of Richardson and TELUS.
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. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with information. 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.
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(ii) risks and uncertainties relating to Nortel's business including: yearly and quarterly fluctuations of Nortel's operating results; reduced demand and pricing pressures for its products due to global economic conditions, significant competition, competitive pricing practice, cautious capital spending by customers, increased industry consolidation, rapidly changing technologies, evolving industry standards, frequent new product introductions and short product life cycles, and other trends and industry characteristics affecting the telecommunications industry; any material and adverse affects on Nortel's performance if its expectations regarding market demand for particular products prove to be wrong or because of certain barriers in its efforts to expand internationally; any reduction in Nortel's operating results and any related volatility in the market price of its publicly traded securities arising from any decline in its gross margin, or fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; any negative developments associated with Nortel's supply contract and contract manufacturing agreements including as a result of using a sole supplier for key optical networking solutions components, and any defects or errors in Nortel's current or planned products; any negative impact to Nortel of its failure to achieve its business transformation objectives; additional valuation allowances for all or a portion of its deferred tax assets; Nortel's failure to protect its intellectual property rights, or any adverse judgments or settlements arising out of disputes regarding intellectual property; changes in regulation of the Internet and/or other aspects of the industry; Nortel's failure to successfully operate or integrate its strategic acquisitions, or failure to consummate or succeed with its strategic alliances; any negative effect of Nortel's failure to evolve adequately its financial and managerial control and reporting systems and processes, manage and grow its business, or create an effective risk management strategy; and (iii) risks and uncertainties relating to Nortel's liquidity, financing arrangements and capital including: the impact of Nortel's most recent restatement and two previous restatements of its financial statements; any inability of Nortel to manage cash flow fluctuations to fund working capital requirements or achieve its business objectives in a timely manner or obtain additional sources of funding; high levels of debt, limitations on Nortel capitalizing on business opportunities because of credit facility covenants, or on obtaining additional secured debt pursuant to the provisions of indentures governing certain of Nortel's public debt issues and the provisions of its credit facilities; any increase of restricted cash requirements for Nortel if it is unable to secure alternative support for obligations arising from certain normal course business activities, or any inability of Nortel's subsidiaries to provide it with sufficient funding; any negative effect to Nortel of the need to make larger defined benefit plans contributions in the future or exposure to customer credit risks or inability of customers to fulfill payment obligations under customer financing arrangements; any negative impact on Nortel's ability to make future acquisitions, raise capital, issue debt and retain employees arising from stock price volatility and further declines in the market price of Nortel's publicly traded securities, or any future share consolidation resulting in a lower total market capitalization or adverse effect on the liquidity of Nortel's common shares. For additional information with respect to certain of these and other factors, see Nortel's Annual Report on Form 10- K/A, Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and other securities filings with the SEC. Unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, Nortel disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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