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(Electronic News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Intel Corp. and Siemens Communications have announced a technology relationship that includes an agreement to work together on VoIP (voice over Internet protocol.)
The companies said they would collaboratively create open unified communications solutions for VoIP, and agreed to jointly fund and cooperatively conduct research on secure wireless networks in the short term. For the long term the companies will collaborate on creating vertical industry solutions for business process optimization in segments such as telecom service providers, financial services and digital healthcare.
The agreement also calls for the two companies to establish joint market development efforts focused on the enterprise and service provider sectors. The overall goal of the joint effort is to demonstrate real time communications solutions for business process optimization using Intel architecture such as Intel dual-core technology and carrier class Rack Mounted Servers (RMS) from Intel and the HiPath 8000 and OpenScape from Siemens.
The first step is to demonstrate the OpenScape platform running applications such as Personal Portal, Unified Communications, Video and Voice Conferencing and Mobile Clients. Intel and Siemens expect to present findings and display the first wave of technology solutions developed at the Intel lab to selected customers by the fourth quarter of 2006.
"Intel's experience as the leading provider of silicon technology to the enterprise market world wide and established track record of industry collaboration puts it in a great position to shape the enterprise of the future," said Gordon Graylish, VP of the sales and marketing group and general manager of Europe, Middle-East and Africa.
"Siemens has a strong commitment to this joint development effort and to ongoing collaboration with Intel to unlock the potential of our open communication enterprise solutions to a global ecosystem of third party independent software providers and systems integrators," said Thomas Zimmermann, president, Enterprise Systems, Siemens Communications. "Growth potential for the open unified communications market is significant. Our own customer base for the HiPath 8000 solution has more than doubled since the first quarter of the year, and Siemens is adding a new HiPath 8000 customer nearly every week."
The Intel lab will also act as a center for the optimization and integration of products from independent software vendors and other third party systems to work with the new open unified communication VoIP technologies. Additionally, Siemens and Intel plan to jointly optimize and prepare Siemens' software portfolio based on Intel dual-core technology and Intel virtualization technology.
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