Avaya gaining share on Cisco in telephony equipment segment; VoIP no threat to mobile operators

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> According to recent data from Telegeography, revenue from enterprise telephony equipment sales fell by 4 percent during the second quarter of 2011 over the same period last year. Though retaining its leading share of 30 percent of the market, Cisco's leading position narrowed as rival Avaya gained 3 percentage points to hit 22 percent market share. Article

>  VoIP is an application that should be embraced by mobile operators and not treated as a threat, according to Ronan Dunne, CEO of Telefonica Europe (O2)'s U.K. operation. Article

> AudioCodes' Mediant 800 Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs) have been certified for use with the Customer Interaction Center (CIC), the all-in-one IP communications software suite from Interactive Intelligence, a leader in the call center software solutions space. Article

> Toshiba America Information Systems' Telecommunication Systems Division today announced that its IPedge IP business telephone system has been named a 2011 Internet Telephony Excellence Award winner, presented by Internet Telephony magazine. Release

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