Delivers Best in Ease of Use, Capabilities, and Openness with New-to-Market Software Communication System
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 06/23/09 -- Prompted by strong demand from customers and partners, Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(OTCBB: NRTLQ) is expanding its Software Communication System (SCS) solution to accommodate enterprises beyond small and medium-size businesses. SCS brings solution simplicity, new applications, further plug-and-play interoperability and more opportunities for third-party development communities. A recognized leader in unified communications (UC), Nortel supports customers' evolutionary and transformational paths to UC with telephony UC solutions such as Communication Server 1000 and native UC solutions such as SCS.
"The UC market is in a transition from hardware to software, and for vendors this transition requires conviction to software openness. IP-only vendors will find this transition much more difficult. The winners in this market will be vendors who embrace open, software based solutions and who make software look like another application in the network," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, Yankee Group. "With SCS, Nortel is delivering a truly open, truly simple UC software solution."
Many corporate communications systems are strained to support businesses in today's global economy. The number of touch-points, stakeholder communities, and the speed required for making decisions is greater than ever. Traditional lines between communications functions and IT are also blending and offering new opportunities to improve productivity and better serve customers.
Responding to this trend, many businesses are departing from traditional systems and turning to SCS, a native UC software solution, based on Session Initiation Protocol, the standard for universal communications and interoperability. With SCS, businesses can converge all of their communications into a centralized, easy-to-install, -manage and -use solution that can integrate seamlessly into an existing IT environment with open Web-based interfaces.
"Many of our customers are moving to open standards based, software solutions and away from traditional proprietary systems. Having choices in the components they can use helps them to maintain vendor independence and prevents them from being locked into higher-priced proprietary configurations," said Gary Scroggs, managing partner, Innovational IP Solutions(2), a Nortel partner and Washington state-based company specializing in the development of low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) VoIP solutions.
Release 3.0 of SCS now extends support to industry-standard platforms from IBM, Dell and HP, including IBM Power Systems and System i, Dell Optiplex, and HP Proliant DL360, as well as the recently announced IBM x3350 and Dell PowerEdge R300 systems.
