Daily News 2004/09/22

Cox entering into VoIP market

　　Cox Communications, an American wire network operator, announced that it plans to enter into the VoIP market and also intends to take VoIP as its major business.

　　Cox is not the only one who is interested in VoIP. In much earlier time, its competitors, including Mediacom, Adelphia, Times Warna, Comcast, Charter and other wire TV network provider all said that they would provide VoIP services and they had all entered into cooperation partnership with Telecom companies, such as AT&T, MCI, Sprint and Vonage.
The wire TV network as provided by Cox serves as many as 88,000 families. It also has 62,000 users in urban areas.

RightNow and Echopass enters into cooperation relationship

　　RightNow® Technologies（NASDAQ:RNOW）, the world leading on demand CRM company announced that it has established cooperation partnership with Echopass, leading on-demand contact center provider to provide pre-integrated on demand solutions for multi-channel contact center.
The combination of the CRM system of RightNow and the call center and CTI solutions of Echopass will bring great convenience for the customers of the two sides, with no need for purchase, installation or maintenance of software and hardware.

IronPort entering into the mail security market of China

　　On September 16, IronPort Company, the world famous network mails gateway techniques provider put a new generation of mail gateway on Beijing's market. IronPort says that this new kinds of mail gateway is oriented to high-end users (enterprises).

　　In May, Microsoft announced that it would adopt the electric mail certification techniques as provided by IronPort to provide gateway techniques for MSN and Hotmail and assist Hotmail in constructing a solid anti-junk mail gateway. Besides, IronPort also provides services to other international company, including CNN, Cisco and ebay. The new generation of mail gateway as provided by IronPort on Beijing market is a signal that IronPort is entering China market.

VTEL equipment adopted for the grade III network of Jiangsu electric power system

　　After the GLY755 products as provided by VTEL was used in the grade II network of Jiangsu electric power videoconference system, the two sides cooperated again, with VTEL providing the Vista VP for The grade III network of Jiangsu electric power system to set up a videoconference system from city to county level. Thus, an integrated and comprehensive videoconference system is completed, covering the capital city, local cities and counties. The equipment will be used for the power dispatching conference and daily production, which will greatly improve the working efficiency and emergency capability.