Ingram Micro Booth Demonstrates Comprehensive CTI Solutions To Resellers
LOS ANGELES, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Ingram Micro Inc., the world's leading wholesale distributor of technology products and services, today announced that its Telecom Integration Division will have a booth at CT Expo showcasing eight computer telephony integration (CTI) solutions for resellers. The show will be held in the South Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center March 3-5. Ingram Micro is in Booth 1558.
The company also will host a reception at the Regal Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on March 4 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. At the reception, Jerre L. Stead, Ingram Micro's chairman and CEO, will discuss the company's role in the distribution of computer telephony products.
Each solution presented in Ingram Micro's booth demonstrates various aspects of CTI to help resellers begin to offer a complete CTI solution to their end user customers. The following solutions will be featured:
-- Voice/Data (WAN) Integration -- PC-based phone systems -- Remote-access and fax server -- Call control with unified messaging -- Call center application -- Desktop video conferencing -- Internet telephony -- Lucent Technologies' NetCare Services
"The solutions Ingram Micro is showcasing at CT Expo will help resellers get started by breaking the CTI puzzle into manageable pieces," said Laura Skinner, vice president and general manager of Ingram Micro's Telecom Integration Division. "Resellers have been asking us to break down the barriers for them as they enter the computer telephony market. Our booth will exhibit a variety of solutions that our customers can use to take the first steps to offering a complete CTI solution, where they can service their current customer base and expand their expertise to new customers."
Ingram Micro's CTI consortium members, including Telecommunications Concepts, Inc.; Data Voice Inc.; Standard Tel; Digital Technologies and Vitec. Inc. will be present. The consortium is dedicated to the development of a national network of resellers committed to providing complete end-to-end solutions for a variety of end users.
"The computer telephony market provides incremental business opportunities for resellers," said Sam Standridge, CEO of Long Beach, Calif.-based Standard Tel. "As a member of the CTI consortium, we look forward to helping other resellers learn about the CTI solutions Ingram Micro offers, so together we can move toward providing those solutions to our end user customers."
Sponsoring manufacturers include 3Com, Active Voice, ADC Kentrox, Ascend Communications, Banksoft, CallWare, Cisco Systems, Dialogic, Equisys, IBM, Lucent Technology, Mitel, NEC America, Spartacom, NetPhone, Newbridge Networks, Opalis, Paradyne, PictureTel, Siemens, TSP Companies, VocalTec, Vodavi and White Pine Software. Each of these manufacturers offer products that are part of the CTI solutions Ingram Micro will be showcasing.
Ingram Micro, IBM CTI Bundles
Ingram Micro also has partnered with IBM to offer complete CTI bundles in pre-tested configurations that include the necessary hardware and software to create a system. These bundles offer resellers complete CTI solutions in one box, for unified messaging, server-based telephony and Internet telephony. The participating partners are CallWare Technologies, Mitel MediaPath and Netphone.
"We are pleased to partner with Ingram Micro to offer bundled CTI solutions to resellers," said Fred Yentz manager of embedded solutions development at IBM.
"Ingram Micro's broad customer base and CTI product offering will continue to fuel our expanding presence in the computer telephony market."
About Ingram Micro Inc.
Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM)
, headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., is the world's leading wholesale distributor of technology products and services, and a leading provider of assembly and integration services, with 1997 sales of more than $16.5 billion. The company and its affiliates operate in 31 countries and distribute more than 145,000 products to more than 100,000 resellers in 120 countries. Ingram Micro can be found at http://www.ingrammicro.com/.
Source: Ingram Micro Inc.
Contact: Cindy Ragland, Media Relations of Ingram Micro Inc.,
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