IBM and 3Com to Deliver “All-In-One” IP Telephony Suite for Small and Mid-Size Businesses

IBM and 3Com to Deliver “All-In-One” IP Telephony Suite for Small and Mid-Size Businesses

IBM and 3Com Corporation, a leading provider of secure, converged voice and data networking solutions, today announced plans to offer the 3Com VCXâ„¢ suite of IP telephony solutions on IBM’s “all-in-one” System i business computing solution.

Through this agreement, IBM and 3Com will enable small to mid-sized clients to integrate IP telephony capabilities with the System i, which comes pre-integrated with hardware, database software, storage and security. To simplify the convergence, IBM and 3Com intend to deliver the first IP telephony suite that can run in a single Linux on POWER partition on the System i. This means clients will be able to run business and telephony applications simultaneously, managed by the System i’s familiar system management tools.

The System i IP Telephony Suite is designed to help clients take advantage of IP telephony features and cost savings versus traditional telephony systems while delivering the same level of reliability that they expect from their business computing on System i.

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