Alcatel today introduced two new application phones for enterprises designed to work with IP-based networks. The new Alcatel IP Touch will provide advanced telephony features, integrated Web services, access to unified communications tools and increased mobility. Alcatel is the first on the market to provide a Bluetooth-ready desktop application phone, providing workers with greater freedom of movement.
Alcatel`s two new IP Touch application phones are intended as a complement to its existing line of IP phones and are targeted for the high-end of the market. Designed to work in conjunction with the company`s IP communication servers, Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise, Alcatel OmniPCX Office and Alcatel OmniTouch Unified Communication suite of applications, the IP Touch phones deliver a new level of advanced telephony features with Hifi sound quality:
* The new Alcatel IP Touch application phones are a worldwide first in combining both a graphical display and a built-in alpha keyboard, allowing Web content and text messages to be easily accessed and viewed from any location within the enterprise. They can be used to provide users with detailed caller ID information and to allow access to enterprise directory data. They also allow users to better manage voicemail using a display-based interface instead of traditional voice prompts. In addition, Alcatel`s unique and innovative approach of connecting the phone handset via Bluetooth eliminates the need for a cord between the handset and the phone, providing workers with greater freedom of movement around their office.
* With support for the Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) industry-standard data exchange format, and when coupled with an XML-based Web services engine, the IP Touch phones are flexible and open to custom application development for unique business needs. The phones also support popular e-mail technologies such as IMAP, SMTP, IBM Domino and Microsoft.
Alcatel IP Touch phones come in two models:
* Alcatel IP Touch 4068 - A full-colour 1/4 VGA screen is capable of displaying 4 096 colours and offers support for Bluetooth wireless technology. This phone enables users the freedom to move the cordless handset within about 10m of the phone set, to connect a Bluetooth headset or to wirelessly connect to a Bluetooth-ready conference speakerphone.
* Alcatel IP Touch 4038 - The built-in display panel provides four levels of greyscale viewing at 100x160-pixel screen resolution. This model also includes an integrated keyboard.
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Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to customers or their employees. Alcatel leverages its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services to bring value to its customers in the framework of a broadband world. With sales of EURO 12.5 billion in 2003, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries.