Daily News 2004/08/27

Altigen opening branch in Korea

　　As the leading provider of world advanced CTI telecommunication platform and IP-based techniques, Altigen has been working hard to make more and more users, especially the Asian users, share the benefits from innovations made through advanced telecommunication techniques. After establishing the branch company in Japan, it went on to establish a branch in Korea in July, 2004.

　　With the establishment of the Korean branch, Altigen can make better market promotions by providing advanced call center techniques/applications and high-quality localized services to the Korean customers. Long before the establishment of the South Korean branch, Altigen has rather a big group of users in Korea. IMC-TP (Teleperformance) is the first big-sized call center established by Altigen in Asia, with more than 300 seats. The company also did well in the field of quick consumables, medical services, network game and so on. The Korea users value and favor the high stability and performance of the products provided by Altigen very much. With the growth of the number of users, Altigen opened a branch in Korea formally to provide more comprehensive products and services. AltiCenter, the core software of the call center platform, will be provided in Korean version.

Jilin Telecommunication providing wide band video-telephone services

　　Recently, Jilin Telecommunication held a market promotional meeting for the wide band video-telephone services integrating images, voice and data to provide a more convenient way of telecommunication. The dream to improve the working efficiency and reduce the management cost though video meeting will come true.

The experience center of the next generation of network business opened in Shanghai

　　Shanghai, August 25 of 2004--Alcatel Shanghai Bell announced that the experience center of the next generation of network business was opened in Shanghai. The center, to be operated by Alcatel Shanghai Bell, is the first experience center established by Alcatel in the Asia Pacific region.
It is brand new experience center of the next generation of network business following the Belgium Antwerp Center. It can provide an opening business environment focusing on the design and measurement of NGN-based customized broadband services to meet the ever-growing demand in the Asia Pacific region. By cooperating with major providers, such as IBM, HP, the company is ready to provide various kinds of NGN-based products and services, such as soft phone, multi-media video meeting, IP Centrex, IP PBX and WLAN telephone.

　　Alcatel Shanghai Bell is the leading provider of NGN solutions in the Asia Pacifica Region, including China. In 2003, the company won the first NGN commercial contract from China Telecom. In May of 2004, Alcatel, the parent company, won the award of Best NGN Provider in 2004 as granted by Frost & Sullivan, the authoritative telecommunication-business consulting company.