Hilversum, The Netherlands, January 11, 2010 – NEC Philips Unified Solutions (NEC Philips) today announced the roll out of its powerful UNIVERGE SV8500 communications solution throughout the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) region. The new solution builds on NEC’s UNIVERGE®360 approach, which puts people, rather than technology, at the centre of business communications.
The UNIVERGE SV8500 is an enterprise application server designed to easily and efficiently scale to meet the needs of the largest enterprises. The reliable and energy-efficient solution can support up to 192,000 ports in a networked environment, providing voice, unified communications and mobility solutions.
Cutting-edge features and advanced UC applications
The SV8500 is a premier IP communications server offering an extensive IP feature set in a flexible, scalable, secure package. The system facilitates NEC’s desktop productivity suites to deliver unified communications, fixed mobile convergence and advanced collaboration, exploiting rich presence, mobility, IM, attendant console, click-to-call, unified messaging and conferencing. Besides these applications the system supports the full range of NEC endpoints, including the latest UNIVERGE DT700/DT300 series phones, with their extensive feature set, XML application support, and revolutionary modular design.
Web-based management is provided by the UNIVERGE MA4000 Management System that enables users to access the system remotely through a personalized portal. Additionally, the MA4000 Expense Manager offers call accounting, asset and mobile management, billing and invoice reconciliation.
Businesses process integration made simple thanks to open standards
The SV8500 supports open-standards for easy integration of communications into business process applications:
• SIP-enabled devices
• LDAP-compliant databases
• Java™ and XML
Business communities will appreciate the advanced collaboration offered by NEC’s Business ConneCT or by means of third party UC integration i.e. Microsoft OCS.
Green initiatives go hand in hand with lower Total Cost of Ownership
The SV8500 is an ecologically sound, compact system that uses 23% less power than previous generations of IP communication servers. NEC provided special attention to its environmental impact and delivered a RoHS compliant system that includes:
• Reduced air conditioning requirements for the server
• Recyclable materials and components using environmentally safe chemicals
• Elimination of lead and mercury in circuit boards
• Documentation provided in electronic format rather than paper
Besides leading in green initiatives the reduced power consumption and environmentally-friendly components also deliver lower total cost of ownership. Customers will appreciate the organizational productivity gains the system provides, delivering savings with facilities such as multi-user voice conferencing and softphones, and comprehensive ways to control operating expenses.
Ensuring Business Continuity and Secure Communications
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The architecture of the SV8500 is ideal for mission-critical situations and ensures highest availability and business continuity. Besides its flash drive technology for system reliability with a very high MTBF, It provides IP fail-over for stations and trunking, clustered survivability, power failure transfer and call routing for self-healing networks. Advanced fault diagnosis, error-correcting memory, and component redundancy with hot standby all add to the operational continuity provided.
In addition to providing high availability, the SV8500 offers users a highly secure system, with advanced end-to-end encryption on voice and signalling streams as well as authentication/ authorization. In the area of physical safety location of IP clients ensures fast and unambiguous aid to be provided in emergency situations.
Powerful Networking and Easy Migration
The SV8500 is a full IP communication server, with the ability to protect investment in earlier products. The system can accommodate existing systems such as SV7000 and/or NEAX 2400 thus providing existing customers with an excellent growth path to full IP.
Because the SV8500 uses the same media gateways, interface cards, terminals, applications and maintenance plans as other NEC systems customers and partners can reuse components installed and in stock. Existing customers with NEC’s legacy systems will also experience minimal impact to the organization when migrating to the SV8500 thanks to the use of familiar features and programming, avoiding the need for additional training.
Using both FCCS (Fusion) and CCIS networking for seamless integration, the SV8500 can be networked with other NEC systems, including the NEAX 2000 and the SV8300. Multiple SV8500 servers can be networked to provide up to 192,000 ports in a single image system.