Daily News 2004/08/25

UT Starcom Personal Communication Management System has bee applied in North AmericaS　

　　UT Starcom has recently announced it has signed a contract with Vonage to provide its 8250personal communication management system (PCMS). Vonage holds a leading position in the global broadband IP market.

　　With the application of UT Starcom PCMS platform, Vonage company can provide advanced IP services with high performance/price ratiot to its increasing users and small enterprise customers. Its service has bounded the high quality VoIP of Vonage. Vonage company adopts the unified information function provided by 8250 PCMS of UT Starcom, which allow users to acquire voice message by phone, Internet or e-mail. Vonage will provide this service first to US and Canada users, and it plans to promote this service globally in 2004.

Avaya holds the "leading" position of AP contact center market

　　Recently, the global leading enterprise telecommunication software, system and service provider, Avaya (NYSE:AV) announces that according to the 2004 AP contact center supplier Magic Quadrant Report released by the study consulting company Gartner, Avaya has outstanding performance in prospective planning and executive force and holds the leading position of the market.

　　This report is compiled by the analyst of Gartner, Mr. Geoff Johnson. He locates the suppliers into one of four quadrants according to the prospective planning and executive force of each manufacturer. These four quadrants are ranked according to the importance: leader, foreseeing, challenger, and Niche Player.

　　According to the market research of industry analysis company, during the last five years, Avaya has ranked top in the contact center market of AP. During this period, the market share of Avaya in Japan, Australia, Philippines, China and India has been dramatically enhanced.

Chuangzhi New Charging Accounting System has been put into use in Wuhan Telecom

　　The new charging accounting system of China Telecom Wuhan Subcompany has been put into use in July 2004. This system is a new charging and accounting system developed and implemented on the basis of new criterion by Chuangzhi. The accomplishment of the system has realized the requirements of realtime charging and account processing by users of more than 3 million fixed phone users and 800000 PHS.

Infonetics releases VOIP market report for the second season

　　The market research company Infonetics Research has released the update global next generation VOIP market report. The sales revenue of global next generation voice equipment in the second season has reached 389 million US dollars, increased by 1% compared with that of first season, and by 10% compared with that of last year. It is predicted that the market will reach 4.8 billion dollars in 2007.