PBI Media-InfoTech Offers Extended IP Coverage October 26, 1999 - IP Coverage PARSIPPANY, NJ, OCTOBER 26, 1999 - PBI Media - InfoTech, the world's largest consulting and research firm dealing exclusively in the telecommunication industry, today announced its expanding coverage of Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony and PC-based switch (PCX) products. With the company's expanded IP Telephony coverage, PBI Media-InfoTech is further entrenched as the world's leading source of telephony data and information. The Parsippany, NJ-based firm will be introducing new coverage for IP Gateways, IP Trunk Cards, and IP PBXs in its electronic database entitled, "TelecomTactics for CPE and Convergence". The expanded database - which supplants the company's TelecomTactics for Business Systems - will provide an in-depth analysis of the IP Telephony marketplace, and will include coverage of new market players such as Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), and 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS), as well as traditional telephone system manufacturers including Lucent (NYSE: LU) Nortel (NYSE:NT) and Inter-Tel (NASDAQ:INTL). PBI Media-InfoTech also announced that its InfoTrack for CPE and Multimedia report has just added IP telephony to its revenue and shipment forecast, with more detailed analysis of shipment data for IP Telephony and PCX to follow. The company's InfoEdge 2000 series of telephone system configurators and competitive price analyzers will also add more IP coverage. "TelecomTactics for CPE and Convergence along with our InfoTrack and InfoEdge products will bolster our coverage of IP Telephony - product features, pricing and market share," said Oren Bloom, director of PBI Media-InfoTech. "The industry is excited about Telecom Tactics as it continues to be the premier electronic information service for all telephony, adding VoIP and PCX, to its coverage of traditional PBX and Key, Voice Messaging, ACD, CTI, and Hospitality systems," said Bloom. This announcement follows a recent PBI Media-InfoTech study on IP Telephony, which forecasts the increasing convergence of voice and data and its growing effect on the business community. "As products are continuously added on a monthly basis to TelecomTactics, sales and marketing organizations and product planning groups can keep abreast of their competitors' and suppliers' the latest offerings in the fast-developing world of IP Telephony," said Bloom. "TelecomTactics' side-by-side capability provides a straightforward comparison of IP Gateways/Routers/Trunk Cards and IP PBX capacities, PBX interfaces, LAN interfaces, Hardware Requirements, Network Management, Standards Compliance, Compression Algorithms, IP Telephones, and more." TelecomTactics for CPE and Convergence will be available via the Internet or CD-ROM.
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