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Mitel announced several enhancements to its market leading solutions that drive efficiency and productivity and help small- and medium-sized businesses increase customer satisfaction and grow revenues. As the leader in the fast-growing SMB IP communications market, Mitel today announced new products that address top requirements for SMBs including simple-to-deploy messaging, audio and web conferencing, mobility solutions, and easy-to-use IP desk phones. [click to continue...]
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Alectel-Lucent announced today that both their chairman Serge Tchuruk and their CEO Patricia Russo will be resigning later this year. CEO Russo will remain at helm until a successor is found but that will be before the end of the year, according to the company. Chariman Tchuruk will be resigning effective October 1st.
Both Russo and Tchuruk were the masterminds behind the merger of Alcatel and Lucent in 2006. While they did form a telecom giant, the merger did not produce the results investors were looking for and the stock seems to continue on a downward slope. [click to continue...]
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Cisco, in collaboration with the Cisco Learning Institute, announced the results of a study on networking labor needs in North America. According to an IDC white paper sponsored by Cisco Learning Institute, “Networking Skills in North America: Trends, Gaps and Strategies,” there is a 60,000-person shortfall between the supply of networking talent and the market demand for highly skilled information technology (IT) workers in the workforce today. As the demand grows for IT professionals, who now represent 14 percent of the workforce, this gap is expected to continue through 2011. [click to continue...]
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Addressing growing demand for enterprise video and telepresence solutions and adding to the industry’s broadest visual communication portfolio, Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) announced the Polycom Converged Management Application™ (CMA™) designed to dramatically simplify the deployment and management of enterprise video networks and the use of desktop, group and telepresence solutions for users. A key component of the solution is CMA Desktop™, a tightly integrated enterprise desktop video application capable of supporting high definition (HD) video, voice and content while scaling to thousands of users across an organization. [click to continue...]
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Mitel has risen to the top spot among the list of highest climbers in this year’s edition of the Financial Post 500 (FP500), the definitive ranking of Canada’s top companies by revenue.
Mitel, a leader in business communications since 1973, completed a $729 million acquisition of U.S.-based Inter-Tel Inc on August 16, 2007, creating a, market leader in the global IP communications industry, including leadership in the fast growing SMB sector of the market. [click to continue...]
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