Tuesday, 27 June 2006

LG-Nortel to Develop IP Desktop Phones Built with MS

LG-Nortel, a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel has announced that it will develop and market with Microsoft Corp., a business enabled IP desktop phone built on Microsoft’s unified communications platform to provide communications for medium-to-large enterprises and government departments.

Based on Microsoft Office Communicator phone experience and designed for intelligent communication across business applications, networks and devices, the new IP desktop phones will work with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 presence-awareness, powerful IP call management features and enhanced instant messaging capabilities.

"Microsoft’s strategy for unified communications supports the development of innovative devices that enable a more intuitive and effective unified communications voice experience," said Zig Serafin, general manager of the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft.

The initial target market for the LG-Nortel business enabled IP desktop phone is small to medium sized companies and government departments in selective markets across North America, Europe and Asia, including Korea, from 2007. Both Microsoft and LG-Nortel will market the new IP desktop phone to Microsoft customers worldwide as well as through LG-Nortel’s global distribution network of operators and channel partners.