Swisscom Chooses Nortel Carrier VoIP Platform for Business Services

ZURICH, Switzerland, September 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Launches Carrier-Hosted VoIP and Multimedia Solution in Swiss Market

Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecommunications company, has launched Business VoIP Services powered by a carrier-hosted VoIP business solution from Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT; TSX: NT). The new services, VoIP Phone and VoIP Gate, form part of a broad VoIP and Multimedia portfolio to enable customers to outsource their communications, enhance productivity with SIP- based multimedia and web-based self service tools, and prepare for fixed mobile convergence.

"With Business VoIP Services, Swisscom is strengthening its core business with convergent service offerings and driving growth in the area of business customer solutions," said Urs Schaeppi, CEO Swisscom Solutions. "Demand for interactive services is increasing and anywhere, anytime communications must be guaranteed. We chose the Nortel carrier VoIP and multimedia solution because it helped us deliver the broadest suite of VoIP Business Services with high levels of service reliability and availability."

A clear evolution path that provides IMS-ready elements for secure services running across both Internet and mobile networks and supports a full range of multimedia capabilities were also deciding factors in Swisscom's selection of a Nortel solution.

"We are excited to be helping Swisscom to deliver secure and effective services and products for mobile, fixed and IP-based voice and data communications now," said Thomas Marfurt, managing director, Nortel Switzerland. "We're also providing the opportunity to develop attractive new offerings as customer needs and industry trends change."

Swisscom's Business VoIP Services are provided on a fully geographic redundant Nortel carrier VoIP solution, ensuring the highest degree of availability for these IP-enabled business services. The solution incorporates services from Nortel's Global Services portfolio including outsourced operations, OSS/BSS and Billing Integration as well as Service Development support.

Swisscom is also laying the foundation for enabling its Business Service offerings to sustain SIP-based multimedia, self-service capability and fixed mobile convergence, as well as supporting evolution to an IMS- based architecture.

The Swisscom VoIP solution is based on the Nortel Communication Server 2000-Compact, a carrier-grade softswitch that supports a wide range of voice and multimedia business features and industry-standard VoIP protocols. Nortel ranked number one in the global markets for service provider softswitches and gateways for the first half of 2006, according to Synergy Research Group.

Nortel's Global Services include a full range of integrated services for design, deployment, management and maintenance of end-to-end multi- vendor network solutions, including seamless migration to next generation technologies.

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