VoIP Migration Company Citel to Showcase Communication Manager at ITEXPO

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Officials at Citel say that the latest version of their Portico Telephone VoIP Adapter, or “TVATM,” with built-in IP-PBX, Citel Communication Manager 200, will be on display at TMC’s (News - Alert) Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO East 2008, Feb. 2 to 4, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida.

 

The ITEXPO is the world’s largest and best-attended IP Communications trade show. At the 2008 east coast event last January, the show drew more than 7,000 buyers and sellers of IP Communications products and services. The show in January will mark the 10th anniversary and be the 19th ITEXPO, and TMC once again projects total attendance to exceed 7,000.

 

“Citel’s participation at the ITEXPO exemplifies why this show is widely recognized as the number one venue where service providers, enterprises, government agencies, developers and resellers gather to learn about the benefits inherent in IP Communications products and services,” said Rich Tehrani (News - Alert), TMC’s president and the event’s chairman. “The evolution in this industry has been monumental and it still continues to grow. We are proud to have Citel and its Citel Communication Manager 200 as a key part of this year’s program.”

 

Citel will introduce the world’s first IP-PBX that’ll allow the customer to support legacy digital phones and IP phone on the Citel Communication Manager 200. The CCM 200 will allow customer to deploy a mix of digital and IP Telephones together from one system.

 

Officials from Amherst, New York-based Citel also will showcase their line-up of IP Phones, the so-called “Citel C-Series,” and will demonstrate Citel Portico TVATM, a product that enables enterprises to reduce the cost of migrating to a Voice over IP platform by up to 70 percent, utilizing existing handsets and wiring, while eliminating the need for retraining employees to utilize a new VoIP system.

 

According to Citel Chief Executive Officer Laj Prasher, the TVATM is available with 12 or 24 ports and interoperates with a variety of IP call control platforms. It supports more than 100 handset types including Avaya Definity, Ericsson, NEC (News - Alert) DTERM, Nortel Meridian, Norstar, and P phone, Panasonic DBS, Siemens optiset and optiPoint, and Toshiba Strata DK, Prasher said.

 

“With over 300 million TDM PBX handsets continuing to power enterprise voice communications today, we believe the Citel product suite will continue to accelerate the adoption of VoIP both in hosted and premise-based IP PBX environments,” Prasher said. “We look forward to the opportunity to demonstrate our New products as well as our Portico TVA to the attendee at the IPEXO in Miami, Florida.”

 

For additional information on Citel, please visit our Web site at www.citel.com. To schedule an on-site demo please contact Raman Prasher at - 1-877-248-3587 x 3055 or via e-mail, [email protected] prior to the show.

 

Registration for the show is now open. Anyone interested may register by visiting www.itexpo.com. Limited booth space is still available as well. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the show should contact Dave Rodriguez (News - Alert) at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or at [email protected].

 

About Citel Technologies Inc.
Citel enables SMBs, large enterprises and service providers to realize the cost and productivity benefits of IP telephony while at the same time leveraging their existing PBX infrastructure. Businesses with single or distributed locations and PBX vendors can now deploy next-generation IP applications and services at their own pace, with minimal business disruption. Service providers can deploy Hosted IP telephony services quickly, without having to “rip and replace” existing enterprise PBX handsets and LAN cabling. Citel is based in Amherst, New York with offices in Loughborough, England and Toronto, Canada.

 

About TMC:
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping our clients build communities in print, in-person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by nearly one million US visitors according to Quantcast (News - Alert)* and by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELPHONY Conference & EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

 

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