Alcatel announced that according to Gartner`s report,"2002 EMEA Corporate Enterprise Telephony Magic Quadrant" by Research Director, Steve Blood, the Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 is positioned in the leader quadrant for the European, Middle East and African markets (EMEA).
Gartner evaluated each vendor on a number of criteria including corporate strategy, technical innovation, market message, services strategy, mind share, market share, product capabilities, financial capabilities and channel distribution.
Indeed, Alcatel is fully committed to the enterprise market for years by investing 14% of its total revenue in research and development which allows Alcatel to be a leader in enterprise communication solutions with 22.3% market share in Western Europe Alcatel figures (September 2002).
The Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 `s design is based upon a unique dual IP/TDM capability in order to protect customer investment by a smooth evolution towards IP communication while maintaining advanced communication features. A full selection implementation of legacy and IP telephony standards makes it easy to integrate with existing e-business applications for an efficient total cost of ownership.
The Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 network capacities allow remote and branch office workers the same access to information and applications. At the same time, cost optimisation can be done through least-cost routing mechanisms.
Furthermore, Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 provides applications and services that bring better workplace productivity, flexibility and comfort to an increasingly mobile workplace while fitting standard-based security policy of corporations.
In addition, Alcatel has completed the final phase of its move to a pure indirect channel model, which allows it to fully optimise its channel mix to fast evolving market requirements.
Jean Luc Fourniou, general manager of e-Business Networking Activities at Alcatel, said: "Alcatel solutions significantly reduces the risk of execution when moving to IP Communication, due to its sheer dual IP-TDM capability. This is a major importance when a large corporation chooses to rationalise on a single platform, but at the same time is confronted with different level of readiness of data networks in each site. This is why Gartner`s report confirms Alcatel offer is one of the most suitable for a long-term investment."
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Alcatel
Alcatel designs, develops and builds innovative and competitive communications networks, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. Relying on its leading and comprehensive products and solutions portfolio, stretching from end-to-end optical infrastructures, fixed and mobile networks to broadband access, Alcatel`s customers can focus on optimising their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of EURO 25 billion in 2001, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries.