Enhanced telephony software brings new features Nortel Networks on Monday introduced Version 3.0 of its Succession Enterprise Software, and made it available on both its traditional TDM (Time Division Multiplexing)-based PBX and its newer IP-based PBX systems. The company hopes the latest iteration will whet customers’ appetites for data applications.Nortel has merged the software that was offered on its Succession 1000 family of IP-based PBXs with the software that was found on its TDM-based Meridian 1, according to Ann Swenson, senior product marketing manager of IP Telephony at Nortel in Brampton, Ontario. She explains this move will provide Nortel’s 150,000-strong Meridian install base with newer features that were only available on IP-based systems.“Before it was about delivering just IP connectivity,” Swenson said. “That now is a given. Customers want features and applications to layer on top of their systems.” Helping Nortel deliver new applications to IP phones over the Meridian 1 and Succession 1000 systems is partner Net6. The San Jose, Calif.-based startup develops technology that allows customers to adjust business applications for delivery on wireless devices including Web-enabled cellular phones and Palm- and Pocket PC-based PDAs. This is accomplished via its Net 6 Transformation Gateway appliance and software, which Nortel’s partners can now resell.Swenson lists secure IM, video communication, and video calling as examples of applications customers are looking to have available over IP-based phones.“This [merging of the software] gives the capability of a planned migration from a traditional TDM PBX to a fully converged IP-based network, without doing a forklift upgrade,” said Barry Marks, executive vice president of analyst company InfoTech in Parsippany, N.J. Technology Industry