NATD in the News
New members elected
A record 225 attendees representing 200 companies attended
the recent NATD Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The following were elected into
membership at the January meeting:
- AO
Communications (Asset Optima, LLC) – Pearl, MS – Richard Wells
- Exceed
Communications Inc – Winnipeg, Canada – Warren Tkachuk
- Fairway
Telecom – Hemet, CA – Steve Valencia
- Nortech
Holding AB – Sweden – Richard Asp
- Paracon
(Div. of ScanSource) – Greenville, SC – Clay Sorensen
- ReLogisTechs,
LLC – Massillon, OH – Mark Farina
- Siemens
Financial Services – Germany – Guenter Hess (Vendor)
- Tigerpaw
Software Inc – Bellevue, NE – Dave Foxall (Vendor)
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| Capital (Technology Invest Partners, LLC) – Auburn Hills, MI – Pat
Callahan (Vendor)
- VoiceTouch,
Inc – Ontario, Canada – Alan Montgomery
- Xtel
Distribution – Brookville, FL – Scott Germak
ReLogisTechs, LLC aims
to be first in secondary market
ReLogisTechs, LLC announces their entry into the secondary
market for business communications products.
The new company is comprised of industry veterans and is led by Mark
J. Farina, Sr., former Director of New Business Development for Group
Midwest, Inc. Employee-owned and
operated, ReLogisTechs plans to capitalize on their customer-centric approach
in a rapidly growing industry. As telecommunications systems become idle,
surplus or decommissioned, ReLogisTechs provides refurbishment and repair
services and will then remarket or resell them at a fraction of the
Manufacturer’s list prices. Working
with OEM’s, leasing companies and Fortune 1000 firms, ReLogisTechs offers a
variety of remarketing programs based on the needs of each client.
Visit www.relogistechs.com.
Moves, adds & changes
On December 30, 2005, Teletek and Transcend merged.
The merged company will be Transcend Communications, Inc.
Visit www.transcendinc.net.
News in Review
Financial
Newmerix Corp. closes
$5 million in Series B financing led by Siemens Venture Capital
Newmerix Corp., a provider of automated testing and change
management software for packaged applications, announced that it has closed a
successful $5 million follow-on Series B financing round, led by Siemens Venture
Capital GmbH. Existing investors
Mobius Venture Capital and IDG Ventures also participated in the round.
Newmerix will use the funds to grow its research and development team and
sales staff, as well as expand the breadth and depth of its Automate! software
suite. Newmerix's Automate! software is an integrated suite of program
management, automated testing and change management software specifically
designed for the unique architecture of packaged applications such as
PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle and Siebel.
Resellers
CTI launches Proteus
Communications Management
CTI Group, a global provider of online billing, self-care
and communications management solutions, announces the official U.S. launch
of Proteus Enterprise, the first truly integrated communica-tions management
solution to offer wireline, cell phone, Internet and e-mail usage and cost
analysis to medium and large businesses. The solution allows companies to
monitor and analyze communications resources throughout their global
offices. With Proteus Enterprise,
managers have easy access to essential individual and integrated reports
which provide the necessary knowledge for increasing the performance and cost
effectiveness of their communications systems. Four integrated systems
monitor wireline and cellular telephony, e-mail and Internet. Each system
works by analyzing the log files produced by the PBX, Internet gateway,
e-mail server and electronic cell phone bill. The information is then
collated into parameter driven reports and graphs that can be viewed from
anywhere in the company’s network via a Web browser. Proteus is offered as a
license sale or ASP Managed Service solution.
Servers
Quintum announces new
Remote Management Session Server
Quintum Technologies, a leading innovator in VoIP
technologies, is pleased to announce their new Remote Management Session
Server (RMSS) with patent-pending technology that provides trans-parent and
encrypted/secure network management for remote Tenors situated behind NAT firewalls.
The new Remote Management Session Server is designed to simplify the
installation and manage-ment of remote Tenors for ISPs, service providers and
network administrators. The RMSS
provides a secure and centralized management interface within a Tenor network
that allows newly installed Tenors to be registered, configured and managed
remotely, even those behind NAT firewalls.
The Remote Management Session Server can register up to 5,000 remote
Tenor Switches and can manage up to 100 simultaneously.
Visit www.quintum.com.
Tom’s Corner: Understanding technology better with Tom Cross
Extreme UltraViolet
Lithography – Breaking the Chip Speed Barrier
EUVL technology may break "Moore's Law" where
computing power will double every 18 months. EUVL chips may exceed 400
million transistors about 10 times the Pentium4 with 42 million as well as 10
GHz - gigahertz clock speeds. Details:
EUVL gives chip designers the ability to carve silicon with smaller and
smaller lasers, thereby increasing the number of chips. By using concave
mirrors in a vacuum (potential application for manufacturing in space), EUVL
designers can design new and much smaller chips for applications like medical
diagnostics and repair, embedded systems and remote sensing. Here’s how it
works:
1 - Laser is focused on a jet of xenon gas creating plasma which emits a glow
of extreme ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 13 nanometers - 1/30 the
wavelength of violet visible light.
2 - Optical condensers focus the light toward the circuit "Chip
Mask" - a detailed image of the tran-sistors and other devices being
created-etched.
3 - The image of the integrated circuit reflects off the chip mask on a
series of four-to-six concave mirrors that reduce or sharpen the image of the
chip mask and the project the image onto the silicon wafer coated with
light-sensitive material called resist.
4 - The light images the circuit and a chemical solvent removes unetched
material.
Email Tom at [email protected].
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OEM Roundup
Avaya
Avaya
reports first fiscal quarter 2006 results
Avaya
Inc. reported income from continuing operations of $71 million or 15 cents
per diluted share in the first fiscal quarter of 2006. In the same quarter
last year the company reported income from continuing operations of $33
million or seven cents per diluted share. The company's first fiscal quarter
2006 revenues increased 8.8 percent to $1.249 billion, compared to revenues
of $1.148 billion in the first fiscal quarter of 2005. The first quarter of
2006 included the full quarter contribution from the Tenovis acquisition.
Avaya said its Global Communications Systems revenues rose 11.7 percent
year-over-year and Avaya Global Services revenues increased 5.8 percent over
the same period. The company's operating income for the quarter was $107
million. Avaya generated $106 million in operating cash flow and had $726
million in cash at the end of the quarter.
Mitel
Tech Data U.S. to distribute Mitel IP communications solutions
Tech Data Corporation announced it has established a
distribution agreement with Mitel, a provider of IP communications solutions.
Tech Data, through its Telephony Specialized Business Unit (SBU), is the only
U.S. broadline distributor to offer Mitel hardware, software and accessories.
Tech Data will distribute Mitel’s broad range of IP Communications Platforms
that scale from as few as 10 and to as many as 65,000 users in a single
network configuration, Applications and Services Gateways that provide
connectivity to Microsoft’s Live Communications Server and intuitive desktop
devices. The Telephony SBU also will offer resellers innovative Mitel
applications for contact centers, mobility, teleworking, speech-enabled
unified communications, messaging, collaboration, presence, video
conferencing and wireless communications, with specific market propositions
for verticals including Hospitality, Healthcare, Retail, Government,
Education and Finance.
Visit www.mitel.com or www.techdata.com.
NEC
NEC Unified Solutions
broadens its contact center offering
NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. and SophistiCom Technologies,
Inc., a leader in integrated
software solutions for Agent Performance Management, have
entered into a strategic alliance where NEC will resell SophistiCom's
Interaction Quality Manager for NEC (IQM) solution -- a full-featured, highly
scalable and easy-to-use recording and quality monitoring system for call
center environments. Through this relationship, NEC will provide greater
customer choice, enabling NEC to increase sales through its strengthened and
competitively priced product portfolio. Tightly integrated with NEC's
CCDesign product line, IQM's browser-based application provides key tools
required for effective logging and quality management, plus advanced features
to easily capture customer feedback and compare it to your own quality
assessments.
Nortel
Nortel PEC Solutions
renamed Nortel Government Solutions
Nortel PEC Solutions announced that the company has
been renamed Nortel Government Solutions Incorporated. The change was made to
reflect the company's singular focus on being a trusted supplier of
mission-critical systems and secure network communication solutions and
services for the U.S. government market. PEC Solutions, Inc. was
acquired by Nortel in mid-2005 and remains wholly-owned by Nortel. Since the
acquisition, the company has expanded its efforts to help government ensure
the safety, livelihood and well being of its citizens. Notable projects in
2005 included deployment of a cutting-edge wireless mesh system in support of
NASA's historic Return to Flight; provisioning of critical communications for
the new headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
development of an electronic pharmaceutical tracking system for the Drug
Enforcement Administration; and expansion of software development support for
the U.S. Postal Service's PostalOne! automated mailing service.
The Flag: EU & International Telecom News for IATD Members
New members elected in Orlando
A record 225 attendees representing 200 companies attended
the recent NATD Meeting in Orlando, Florida, including companies from Canada,
England, Germany and Sweden.
Newly-elected members included Exceed Communica-tions, Inc. of
Winnipeg, Canada; Nortech Holding AB of Sweden; Siemens Financial Services of
Germany; and VoiceTouch, Inc. of Ontario, Canada.
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and honor someone with a gift in his or her name.
About NATD Charities
NATD Charities are selected as organizations that have had
a big impact on the lives of our members. We begin with a “cornerstone”
donation of $5,000 to a not-for-profit (501-C) charity in the community of
the NATD member that was provided assistance. While we believe in and
support many fine charities at the national level, we realize that our
members are being assisted by volunteers and in facilities.... locally. NATD Charities puts the emphasis where it
helps our member the most...right in the hands of the local assistance
provider, the 501C organization that directly helped our member.
Help Us Select Our Next Cause
NATD members may send Nominations for the $5,000 award to
the Executive Secretary of the NATD, Ms. Ruth Marion. Funding for this
award will be solely from funds received from the annual NATD Charity Golf
Tournament, held during the Winter NATD membership meeting.
Funding for other projects and issues will be as solicitation
permits, depending on the issues. Other than emergency issues, fund
disbursement from NATD Charity general funds, will be as directed by the
membership in the General Meetings.
Please visit our newly revamped page at http://www.natd.com/public/committees/charitycommittee.asp
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