More Large Enterprises Than Ever Deploy Siemens' HiPath 8000 SIP-Based Unified Communications Platform for Greater Collaboration and Productivity
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New Features Extend Enriched Functionality and Offer New Options for a HiPath 8000 Customer Base That Has Grown by 400 Percent Over the Last Year
BOCA RATON, Fla., Dec. 17 -- Siemens Communications customers worldwide are continuing to move rapidly to open, IT-based, unified communications to solve real business problems. That is why the customer numbers for the Siemens® HiPath® 8000 Real-Time IP System have jumped over 400 percent in the last year, with success in all market sectors, and in enterprises of all sizes and industries.
To continue its market leadership, Siemens announced today the latest HiPath 8000 feature release, including over 40 new Unified Communications (UC) Foundation features, such as enhanced one-number service for UC, larger business-groups for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), new class-leading business-continuity and disaster-recovery options, expanded ENUM, and UC interworking with IBM and Microsoft systems.
Highlights of the HiPath 8000 platform's new feature set include:
o Enhanced Call-Admission-Control for UC and Multimedia
o Class-leading business continuity and disaster recovery with improved
geographic node separation at much lower connectivity costs between
redundant IT data-center nodes, elevating business resiliency to
another level
o One-number service as a core feature for delivering anytime, any where,
any device access to information and people, enabling much greater
personal efficiency and productivity as well as collaboration --
especially when interworking with other presence capabilities
o Secure UC interworking with HiPath 4000
o Enhanced CALEA encryption support for UC as well as Voice
o Larger Business Groups for MSPs, so that they can support more
customers with many more branches and almost unlimited numbering-plans
simultaneously, and also enabling the simplest possible migration from
existing systems
o Expanded ENUM capabilities, which provide lower cost interconnectivity
across IP networks compared to transcoding required and feature
limitations for communications relays via the Public Switched Telephone
Network (PSTN)
During 2008 Siemens will deliver the HiPath 8000 platform to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the world's largest broadcaster with 23,000 employees for whom real-time communications and media-rich collaboration are vital to its mission of gathering, producing and delivering content to UK license fee payers.
Also using the HiPath 8000 to cost-effectively deliver unified communications is Duquesne Light Company, an electric utility company that serves more than half a million customers in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Both companies consider the HiPath 8000's carrier-grade architecture, open standards, SIP-based capabilities and extreme resiliency to be instrumental in the reliable, cost-effective delivery of competitive and high-quality managed services.
Mark Sprock, Manager of Communications, Duquesne Light Company said, "The HiPath 8000 platform offers business continuity while enabling us to create a rich set of unified communications capabilities that will transform our ability to communicate both internally and externally. Our employees will gain new efficiencies through a full suite of advanced IP services supported by a completely secure and flexible working environment. IP-based unified communications will enable all of us at Duquesne Light to more effectively serve the needs of our customers, which is a top priority."
"The migration to IP-based enterprise communications is in turn leading to the integration of real-time communications with business applications. The worlds of IT and communications are, therefore, rapidly coming together, and platforms such as the HiPath 8000 are facilitating that shift," said Jerry Carron, Vice President, Research, Current Analysis.
According to Eve Aretakis, CEO, Siemens Communications, Inc., large enterprises today do not need to replicate the old-world PBX feature set.
"Today's large enterprises, institutions and managed service providers don't need ways to deliver yesterday's communications capabilities," Aretakis said. "Instead what they need is a strategic IT technology like the HiPath 8000 to integrate real-time communications and presence into their day-to-day business processes. That way they can optimize the performance and potential of their employees or managed service customers."
About Siemens
Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $107.4 billion in 2006. Founded 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $21.4 billion and employs approximately 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 480,000 people in 190 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com.
About Siemens Communications, Inc.
Siemens Communications, Inc. is an affiliate of Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG, one of the world's leading vendors of Open Communications solutions for enterprises of all sizes, enabling business processes to be more productive, faster and more secure -- with any device, network or information technology infrastructure. Siemens Communications Inc., and Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG are wholly owned subsidiaries of Siemens AG with about 15,000 employees globally and headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. For more info, visit http://enterprise.usa.siemens.com/home.html
Source: Siemens Communications, Inc.
CONTACT: Jacob Rice of Siemens Communications, Inc., +1-561-923-8347, jacob.rice@siemens.com
Web site: www.usa.siemens.com/
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