Mitel will implement Unified Communications as a Service platform to deliver real-time communications, collaboration and conferencing solutions focused on enterprise market
The enterprise division of French telecom firm Bouygues Telecom has selected Mitel UCaaS solutions to deliver real-time communications, collaboration and conferencing to medium and large businesses across France.
Bouygues Telecom currently has nearly 14 million customers and its Bouygues Telecom Enterprises division handles more than 2 million professional and corporate users, offering advanced communications tools and services including feature-rich voice, video and collaboration tools with telepresence, chat, audio and videoconferencing capabilities, and screen and desktop sharing.
“Bouygues Telecom Enterprises has always set itself the objective of bringing the latest technological advances to the largest number of people,” said Thierry Labbé, managing director of Bouygues Telecom Enterprises Division. “We have chosen to partner with Mitel due to its leadership position within the [unified communications] market and its ability to provide a future-proof solution for both our customers’ business and our own business.”
Bouygues Telecom’s 4G network currently covers 75% of the population, which will increase to 82% at the end of 2016.
Ericsson, Telstra achieve near-gigabit speeds on live demo
In related news, Swedish vendor Ericsson has announced the demonstration of LTE speeds of 979 megabits per second downlink and 129 Mbps uplink using a single device on Australian telecommunications operator Telstra’s network.
The demo was carried out using a Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 LTE modem test device and used LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation, 64 quadrature amplitude modulation uplink, 256 QAM downlink and 4×4 multiple-input multiple-output technologies.
“We are getting closer to delivering commercial 1 gigabit per second download speeds on our network. This will bring both speed and capacity outdoors, along with deeper coverage and performance indoors,” Mike Wright, Telstra’s group managing director of networks, said. “The pairing of higher data speeds on the downlink and the uplink is a key milestone in the ongoing delivery of the ultimate data experience. Our tests also highlight the joint engineering capability we bring to such a complex blend of new software and hardware technologies in real-world end to end conditions.”
