IBM and 3Com announced plans on Thursday to offer the 3Com VCX suite of IP telephony solutions on IBM's "all-in-one" System i business computing solution.
3Com said by using SIP and other open standards, telephony offerings would "more easily integrated with other applications on the System i to extend their functionality with telephony features and applications, including unified messaging, large scale audio conferencing, video conferencing, presence, contact centers and enterprise mobility..."
The companies said the solution would be aimed at the mid-market of 100 to 2,000 users.
"The availability of the 3Com solutions on the System i platform will give our broad base of clients a powerful option to run a complete IP telephony solution without adding new boxes to their environment," said Mark Shearer, general manager, IBM System i.
IBM said the first software products for integration onto System i were expected to be available by third quarter of this year.
Posted by Mike Barton on March 30, 2006 10:44 AM
