Notification System provides campus alerts.

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Integrating Flash Alert(TM), Emergency Campus Notification solution provides centralized command center for alerting and notifying groups or individuals. Delivered via pagers, phone numbers, SMS text messages, email, and PDAs, messages can address entire campus or be tailored towards sub-segments of students, faculty, and staff. BlueFire® VC Digital Signage Controller automatically picks up alert when it is released and broadcasts it to LCDs and PDPs.



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NEC Unified Solutions Improves Student Safety With Emergency Campus Notification Solution



NEC Strengthens Higher Education Offerings, Utilizing Flash Alert to Provide Mass Broadcast Notification Solution

IRVING, Texas, July 24 // -- NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. (NEC), a leader in converged voice and data communications for the enterprise, in partnership with XTEND Communication Corp., today announced the availability of its new Emergency Campus Notification solution. With this offering, campuses are equipped with Flash Alert(TM), a mass notification communication solution that provides a centralized command center for alerting and notifying groups of individuals. Messages can address the entire campus population or be tailored towards sub-segments of students, faculty and staff.

Emergency notifications can be distributed immediately or within a pre-defined time frame. Messages can be delivered to a variety of communication destinations including pagers, home, office and cellular telephone numbers, SMS text messages, email and PDAs. This ensures campus decision-makers are notified immediately and provided with the information they require to quickly and efficiently address an urgent situation. Immediate notification of first responders allows them to respond rapidly, possibly avoiding potential or further emergencies.

NEC's Emergency Campus Notification Solution also uniquely integrates Flash Alert with NEC's Digital Signage Solution. At the heart of this solution, the BlueFire(R) VC Digital Signage Controller automatically picks up an alert when it is released and broadcasts it to display systems such as NEC's large Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) and Plasma Display Panels (PDPs). As the first notification system with integrated digital signage capabilities, it not only significantly expands the reach of the emergency notification to all areas of the campus, but also provides video-enhanced capabilities to attract the attention of people without a cell phone, telephone or email access. For instance, with NEC's Emergency Campus Notification solution, a weather alert message can be displayed prominently throughout campus while concurrently broadcasting a live-video feed of the local weather radar.

"Providing the higher education market with solutions that are more sophisticated and respond directly to the unique needs of a campus setting is a major objective of NEC," said Paul Lopez, general manager, Marketing, NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. "We are committed to helping our customers increase campus safety through this emergency notification solution, to allow for faster and more wide-spread alerts and information to reach students, faculty and community members alike."

"We're thrilled that NEC views XTEND as a competitive advantage," said Bill Schwartz, President & CEO of XTEND. "Our two organizations have been providing communications solutions to many of the same markets for years, so it's an exciting opportunity to team up to improve both of our offerings. We're always proud when yet again one of our solutions is in a position to save lives and aid in an emergency situation, and we view this as another of those opportunities. We feel Flash Alert fits nicely within the broad scope of solutions we offer in partnership with NEC, both for the education market as well as for healthcare, hospitality and enterprise business."

About NEC Unified Solutions, Inc.
NEC Unified Solutions Inc., a leader in converged voice and data communications solutions for the enterprise, delivers the industry's most innovative suite of products, applications and services that help customers achieve their business goals. NEC Unified Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation of America and offers the broadest range of communications services and solution choices, flexible product platforms and applications, and an open migration path to protect investments. NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. serves the Fortune 1000 and customers across the globe in vertical markets such as hospitality, education, government and healthcare. For more information, visit www.necunified.com, or call (877) 463-2267.

About XTEND Communications Corp.
Recognizing that every organization is unique, the professionals at XTEND take the time to listen to and understand each client's needs. Together we discover methods to enhance business practices by improving upon the features and functionality of telecommunications systems. XTEND has provided ground breaking, customer-focused solutions to the healthcare, education, public safety and hospitality markets for 40 years. In some ways we are "PBX marketizers," bringing the features and functionality of the communications system closer to what that individual market or customer needs. In other ways we are consultative subject matter experts, helping each customer understand the best and most efficient ways to accomplish their mission. Some say 40 years is a long time to be in communications. We are just getting started. For more information visit www.xtend.com.

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CONTACT: Amy Dittman of NEC Unified Solutions, Inc., +1-214-262-6384, adittman@necunified.com

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