Why Consider Aspire?
Communications – converging businesses worldwide
Fast, reliable and secure communications are what bind today’s businesses together. The revolution
currently taking place with the convergence of PSTN, broadband and mobile technologies means that
anywhere in the world can be your office.
What is a complete communications solution?More than a Marketing Slogan!Mobile Capability – You can use your GSM/3G cellular phone as your Aspire extension, transfer the caller to an Aspire IP extension in the next office, or to a sales colleague who is taking calls on his laptop or PDA softphone. If you need to call the warehouse, then use your cellular extension to call the remote DECT phone.Mix and Match – Businesses can adopt the latest communication technologies at a pace to suit them. A greenfield site might justify a total Aspire IP Telephony solution using your data infrastructure. Or you might need to integrate older technologies with IP. Aspire gives you all the benefits of traditional phone systems, together with the cost savings of IP. If you wish to use the traditional phone cabling, or have a mix of IP and traditional, the Aspire system flexibly adapts to your needs. Convergence – Use the Aspire MyVision Computer Telephony application suite to link to your business applications, improving service levels and response times. SIP Future-Proofing Today’s ISDN-based phone network is being replaced in the future by a total IP-based phone network. Aspire is already compatible with many of the new generation SIP networks. Aspire allows you to migrate from an ISDN 2 or ISDN 30 network to SIP, whenever the time is appropriate for your business needs. With NEC, you are assured of peace of mind. Meeting the diverse requirements of business customers has made NEC consistently one of the top five electronics suppliers. With all of the major carriers committed to replacing their existing PSTN networks with IP, your business needs to keep pace with these developments. The two most important are: New Generation Networks (NGN)For organisations requiring to replace their phone systems either now or in the future, then a fundamental issue they must address is one of future-proofing. Both the UK and European carriers are in the midst of major investment programmes to replace their existing legacy PSTN networks with networks based on the new communications standard, SIP.BT is already rolling out to its 21CN network. DASS services are currently being withdrawn and, by the end of the upgrade programme in 2011/12, ISDN will be withdrawn. Today, most businesses rely on ISDN connections to make outside calls. You need a phone system that helps your business seamlessly transition to the new networks. Aspire is fully NGN future-proofed. Any Aspire installed today will work on these evolving new generation networks. This does not involve any expensive upgrade or large purchases of additional hardware. It’s out of the box. Any future upgrades will be merely new software. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)SIP is a real-time, multimedia protocol bringing together voice, data and video and is at the heart of the current communications revolution. Apart from bringing the PSTN network into the 21st Century, it is creating other major benefits for businesses.Customers have long complained that system extension phones are too expensive. SIP is now becoming the new standard for extension phones. With the Aspire system, users now have the choice of using NEC-designed phones or a range of third-party alternatives. Open standards within telephony – like in the PC industry – will drive down costs, creating more value for end users. NEC is the first UK supplier to commit to SIP open standards (RFC3261/3842) for both its corded phone and wireless LAN architecture on all its communication systems. This broadens customer choice and makes our communication solutions more cost-effective. | ||