Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application
Solutions (CVAS) has been named VoIP Network Vendor of the Year in the
Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice Awards. This recognition reinforces
Nortel’s long-standing leadership in the global carrier VoIP and
softswitch market, a position Nortel has maintained since 2002,
according to industry analyst firm Dell’Oro Group.
Nortel CVAS received the VoIP Network Vendor of the Year award for
its industry-leading Carrier VoIP portfolio, which has been
successfully deployed by leading service providers worldwide to help
generate new revenue streams, improve subscriber loyalty, and reduce
network costs.
Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice Awards
recognize the technology innovations and contributions to the
industry made by top telecommunications vendors operating across Asia.
Nominations for 22 categories were open to analysts, consultants and
high-level telco executives in September. A total of 56 telecom
insiders submitted more than 1,150 nominations.
"Nortel is the clear leader in carrier VoIP as evidenced by
their success in providing carrier-grade solutions to leading operators
around the world. Our readers recognized this long-held position in
this year’s awards, after analysts shortlisted Nortel for its
innovation, market share and continued customer momentum in the space,"
said Joseph Waring, group editor of Telecom Asia.
"Nortel is honored to have been named VoIP Network Vendor of
the Year," said Samih Elhage, president, CVAS, Nortel. "This award is a
reflection of our relentless focus to meet customer commitments and
help service provider around the globe to deploy next-generation
carrier VoIP solutions that can increase service provider revenues and
enhance network capacity while delivering advanced SIP capabilities to
end users."
Nortel continues to lead the global Carrier VoIP market
according to Dell’Oro Group, Infonetics Research and Synergy Research.
All three leading analyst firms’ recently published reports rank Nortel
as the global leader with the largest revenues in the carrier IP market
for the third quarter of 2009.
Nortel has a strong track record of success in the Carrier
VoIP space. Nortel has shipped more than 118 million Carrier VoIP and
Multimedia ports, including over 10 million SIP lines to leading
wireline and wireless carriers globally – including major service
providers across Asia Pacific such as Chunghwa Telecom, Hong Kong
Broadband Networks, LG Dacom, Maxis and Optus. Nortel CVAS has
consistently ranked as the number one supplier in the carrier VoIP
market since 2002.
