Siemens Communications continued its transition from a hardware-based to a software-oriented company with the release of its OpenScape Unified Communications (UC) Server, media reported Tuesday.
The OpenScape Unified Communications Server will integrate into any IT or voice switching environment from Siemens or any other vendor, said Mark Straton, senior vice president of enterprise marketing.
The UC Server is pure software that runs in any hardware environment, regardless of vendor, Straton said. Also announced were three applications that run on UC Server: OpenScape Voice Application; OpenScape UC Application V3; and OpenScape Video.
Available April 30, UC Server enables presence, administration, session control and other shared services for the suite of OpenScape UC applications, modular capabilities that can be enabled by activating license keys on a user-by-user basis.
"VARs can sell into any base of customers," Straton said. "It's a good entry point to sell it on top of an in-place telephony environment. It's not a rip-and-replace, but an upgrade."
Straton said the typical expense and complexity of UC solutions were tough barriers for VARs to break through and were often prohibitive to their customers.
Donna Warner, vice president of Black Box Network Services in Lawrence, Pa., said the new server will allow more flexibility for business customers. Black Box is Siemens' largest channel partner in North America.
"Customers aren't being forced into either a proprietary hardware solution or to interface with a limited number of operations systems providers and can move as slowly or quickly as they are comfortable into a full unified-communications environment," Warner said.
Source:Xinhua/Agencies
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