Alcatel-Lucent gets ClubMed account

Alcatel-Lucent added ClubMed to its big name customer roster Friday and will install about 30,000 total lines in a complete VoIP telephony system for ClubMed resorts, sales offices and corporate HQ initially with more rollouts planned for the future.

The companies signed a seven-year service agreement that will see Alca-Lu's OmniPCX enterprise telephony solution deployed across Club Med's 87 locations. Club Med will use the solution to streamline existing communications, cut costs, and manage telephony centrally, and the resort chain can now add locations easily through the centralized management tools Alca-Lu provides.

Plans are also being discussed to roll out softphones in resort room TVs and WiFi in every guest room, which would cut back on costs for guests and Club Med alike. Alca-Lu has had an executive shake up this month, and big partnerships like this could help to assuage wary investors. Focusing an enterrise story about cutting telephony costs with WiFi and VoIP capabilities also seems like a wise idea going forward. 

For more:
- see the press release here [1] 

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