NEC's Mobile Client Extends Unified Communications to Mobile Devices

Business Wire, March 5, 2007

NEC Delivers Mobility-Enhanced Business Communications Applications with Integrated Wi-Fi and Cellular Communications

IRVING, Texas -- NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. (NEC), a global leader in VoIP and data communications, today announced the release of the UNIVERGE[R] Mobile Client, an enhanced applications that extends desktop telephony and messaging functionality to mobile devices and incorporates wireless LAN (WLAN) and cellular into a customized, user-friendly mobile format. As an addition to NEC's Assured Mobility[TM] and Unified Communications portfolios, the Mobile Client grants businesses the ability to achieve increased productivity by broadening the office reach to any location - remote or mobile.

Assured Mobility is a first of its kind to provide the mobile user with a secure, feature-rich and reliable communications experience anywhere on or off campus. It is a new approach to mobility because NEC takes the user experience into account along with managing the solution.

By embedding the Mobile Client, a SIP-based VoIP softphone, on mobile devices, NEC makes the desktop phone mobile and extends the functionality of NEC's UNIVERGE IP telephony platforms to mobile phones. The Mobile Client delivers access to the enterprise network as well as enhanced unified messaging capabilities such as instant messaging, presence, buddy lists, voice mail, corporate directory, click-to-call, call screening, caller ID with enterprise name, and one-button conferencing.

"The desire for enhanced communications that streamline voice and enterprise applications on a single mobile platform, has gained tremendous interest from the small-to-medium business to the enterprise, alike," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, Yankee Group. "In the emerging era of intelligent communications, NEC's addition of a Mobile Client to its portfolio will allow businesses to design how they want to react and communicate to specific events - allowing faster connections, increased opportunities and higher levels of productivity."

With the ability to facilitate the integration of Wi-Fi and cellular technologies onto a single device, users gain seamless roaming capabilities while on and off the campus, from the WLAN to the cellular network. This dual-mode functionality provides a flexible platform and a single phone number for both the mobile and desktop phone, ensuring the delivery of enterprise applications and business critical information with optimal quality of service.

To ensure ease of deployment, the Mobile Client employs a familiar NEC graphical user interface (GUI) that operates over the existing operating system to the user's mobile device of choice. Using this GUI that is customized for the mobile device, users can achieve immediate usage with minimal training and lower operational costs.

"Organizations are looking to connect and gain access to feature-rich applications that fuel productivity by embedding voice communications into real-time business processes," said Paul Lopez, general manager, Marketing and Services at NEC Unified Solutions. "With the Mobile Client, NEC supports the real-time enterprise by delivering right-choice communications that make businesses and workers more responsive to customers, more flexible in dealing with changing needs and more efficient in controlling how and when people communicate."

The Mobile Client consists of both a Mobility Gateway and client application. The Mobility Gateway integrates with NEC's UNIVERGE Media Gateway Controllers and extends security, voice mail, conferencing and other productivity applications to mobile devices. The client application runs on a variety of mobility devices including both single and dual-mode devices. NEC provides an add-on application for popular cellular devices such as Blackberry, Nokia E60/61, Win Mobile smartphones and PDAs that provide access to enterprise NEC VoIP application services. The Mobile Client also includes an application for dual-mode Wi-Fi/Cellular devices that provides a single user experience in either network mode.

NEC is showcasing Assured Mobility and its Unified Communications portfolio in booth #801 at VoiceCon, from March 5 - 8, 2007, at the Gaylord Palms hotel in Orlando, FL. For more information, please visit www.necunified.com.

About NEC Unified Solutions, Inc.

NEC Unified Solutions Inc., a global leader in VoIP and data communications for the enterprise and small-medium business, delivers the industry's most innovative suite of products, applications and services that help customers achieve business value through technology. NEC Unified Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation of America, offers a complete portfolio of solutions for wireless, unified communications, voice, data and management services, and an open migration path to protect investments. NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. serves Fortune 1000 customers across the globe in vertical markets such as hospitality, education, government and healthcare. For more information, visit www.necunified.com.