NEC AMÉLIORE SON "PORTEFEUILLE UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS" AVEC DE NOUVEAUX PRODUITS ET LE SUPPORT DES APPLICATIONS DE COMMUNICATION UNIFIÉE DE MICROSOFT

Tokyo, — Oct. 17, 2007 — NEC Corporation today announced several products and services that will enable customers to easily integrate unified communications into their business to enhance productivity, increase customer satisfaction and drive revenue.  NEC will offer a USB handset, collaboration middleware, and a Media Gateway, all of which will be optimized for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.

 In addition, NEC will tightly integrate the latest voice, data and video technologies from NEC with Microsoft Corp.’s unified communications and collaboration software including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Office Live Meeting, Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and other Microsoft technologies.  Taking advantage of the mobile features of this offering, NEC will utilize fixed and mobile devices to enable real-time, collaborative work within NEC’s UNIVERGE® portfolio. 

NEC is committed to delivering to its customers best-of-breed UC solutions that work with a company’s existing solutions for presence, mobility, collaboration, unified messaging, conferencing and contact centers.  Supporting Microsoft’s interoperable and open-standards based unified communications products is a key ingredient in offering customers a versatile UC solution.  These new products and services will be offered by NEC in the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions and will provide customers with one source for combined Microsoft and NEC environments.  NEC is committed to enhancing its UC product lineup and capabilities to support and deliver the most advanced telephony features for enterprise UC users.  

 “As business communications and VoIP move to software, a new world of opportunity emerges for NEC and our customers.  NEC continues to provide global innovation by offering a migration path for customers to easily integrate VoIP technology into their existing communications,” said Mr. Kazuo Tsuzuki, Associate Senior Vice President, NEC Corporation.  “NEC is uniquely positioned to offer customers new services and products built on Microsoft’s unified communications platform to best meet customers’ business needs and seamlessly integrate into their current technology environments.”

”According to market studies, NEC is the leading provider of telephony lines worldwide, and as communications shifts to software, its efforts in collaboration with Microsoft will be important to help customers maximize their existing investments while moving to a software-based communications infrastructure,” said Kim Akers, general manager of Unified Communications, at Microsoft.

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