Siemens Enterprise Communications' Flagship Product Lauded for Its Advanced Features, High Scalability, Performance and Open Standards MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group), a premier provider of enterprise communications solutions, today announced that Current Analysis, a leading communication industry analyst firm, has given the company's flagship software-based product, OpenScape(TM) Voice, high marks in its latest Product Assessment Report. In the report, OpenScape Voice earns a 5 out of 5 rating in scalability and performance for its ability to support up to 100,000 IP lines with just two industry-standard servers. OpenScape Voice also scored above the industry average in Pricing, as well as Security and Reliability. "Siemens has always been on the forefront of enterprise communication and OpenScape Voice, which has been built from the ground up on industry standards, offers the unique ability to integrate diverse communication systems, providing organizations with a very flexible communication platform that can significantly reduce costs," said Brian Riggs, research director at Current Analysis. "It also gives organizations the flexibility to select best-of-breed applications to meet end-user needs, something few enterprise communications solutions can do." According to Current Analysis, "OpenScape Voice is threatening to competitors in the enterprise PBX market. The most modern and most advanced of Siemens Enterprise's voice communications solutions, OpenScape Voice is uniquely positioned in the market. It can be configured as an IP PBX, capable of being cost-effectively positioned to mid-market enterprises requiring 500 or fewer lines. Or, thanks to its heritage as a platform for hosted voice services, it can scale up for organizations requiring support for 100,000 or more users. Alternately, OpenScape Voice can be deployed as an overlay to an existing voice network, a configuration called OpenXchange that provides centralized routing and session management for a large, complex network of Siemens Enterprise or third-party PBXs and communications application servers. In either scenario, OpenScape Voice can reside in a data center environment, allowing enterprises to reduce the number of disparate PBX systems distributed across their networks dramatically, and in the case of OpenXchange, reduce the number of T1 lines needed to support voice applications." OpenScape Voice is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based enterprise voice application and a key component of the OpenScape UC Server Suite, which incorporates enterprise grade voice services with carrier grade scalability and reliability, IP least-cost routing, video conferencing, mobility, unified messaging and role-based unified communications (UC) applications. Deployed in the data center, these offerings provide a flexible foundation for UC by building on the SEN Group's OpenSOA approach, which itself is designed to allow for deep business process integration into virtually any existing line of business application and seamlessly provide rich communications-enabled business processes (CEBP). It also allows for flexibility in deployment, including supporting hosted models that allow organizations to defer the costs of traditional on-premise systems, at predictable monthly fees. OpenScape Voice and the OpenScape UC Server Suite not only allow for uniform, ubiquitous access to multi-media devices, unmatched scalability and seamless, standards-based integration with other enterprise-class communication, they can significantly reduce TCO by simplifying and centralizing the administration of the communication infrastructure, reducing audio conferencing and call charges, and reducing power consumption. They can also enable seamless teleworking, help free organizations from real estate costs, assist business continuity and can help reduce carbon footprints by reducing the need for commuting. "We are pleased that leading analyst firms such as Current Analysis recognize the innovation that we have built into our products lines, helping to ensure that our customers can make the most of their communications investments," said Eve Aretakis, executive vice president of voice solutions and applications at the SEN Group. "The Product Assessment Report further demonstrates the value of OpenScape portfolio and our commitment to ensuring that we not only meet our customer's needs today, we position them for the future." Resources: Product Assessment Report - Siemens Enterprise Communication, OpenScape Voice - http://www.siemens-enterprise.com/main/Info_Center/Reports-and-Guides.aspx About Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group) The SEN Group is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's OpenPath commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, SEN Group companies include Siemens Enterprise Communications, Cycos, and Enterasys Networks. For more information about the SEN Group or Enterasys please visit http://www.siemens-enterprise.com/ or http://www.enterasys.com/ Note: Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. is a trademark licensee of Siemens AG. HiPath, OpenOffice, OpenScape and OpenStage, are registered trademarks of Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. or its affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. This release contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of Siemens' management. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "forecast," "expect," "intend," "plan," "should," and "project" are used to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results to be materially different, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance of new products or services and changes in business strategy. Actual results may vary materially from those projected here. Siemens does not intend or assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Siemens Enterprise Communications Group CONTACT: Silvie Casanova, Siemens Enterprise Communications Group Corporate Communications, +1-978-848-4617, Web Site: http://www.siemens-enterprise.com/

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