Mitel addresses small business demands with a launch of the 3300CXi at GITEX - Dubai

The 3300CXi offer SMBs for the first time the entire portfolio of "office in a box" IP Telephony applications, previously only available to large enterprises, including Teleworking, Presence and Video-conferencing.

Recent independent research into the SMB market, commissioned by Mitel, showed that 63 per cent of decision makers would work remotely and flexibly if they were able to do so. The expected official launch of the 3300CXi addresses this market demand directly. Supporting Mitel's entire family of IP Telephony products, the 3300CXi gives small businesses with 8 to sixty four users the full benefits of IP Telephony at an affordable price.

Customers of Mitel's new products will be offered the 3300CXi as a fully integrated system, offering voice, video and data over broadband for every user. Other applications available to users will include voicemail, auto attendant, caller ID screen pops that link to customer data, and the latest generation XML applications.

Small businesses keen to maximise their existing investment in IT can use the new Mitel products to integrate email services popular with SMBs such as Hotmail, in addition to Microsoft, Lotus and ACT environments. The new Mitel 3300CXi product offers full IP security including firewall, date router and NAT. SMB users can also take advantage of the 16-port layer 2 data switch, supporting industry standard power for telephony devices which enables a further reduction in the cost of deploying VoIP into small offices. The 3300CXi allows customers to choose their own data router and firewall products.

Hisham Amili, general manager, Mitel GCC, said: "While SMBs have been able to take advantage of low-cost IP Telephony through products and solutions already available, our new 3300CX and 3300CXi products present a true industry first. Small organisations can now use IP Telephony to work from remote locations, communicate using online 'presence' applications through video, voice and data, and they can take advantage of the cost benefits made possible by communicating over a converged IP network."

The Mitel 3300 CX and 3300CXi will be exhibited and operational at Gitex DWTC Dubai, on 25th and 29th September 2005 by two of it's distributors, Almasa and Online. The products are already available as of July 2005.