Intel, Siemens to Collaborate on Second-Generation VoIP

Intel Corp. and Siemens Communications Inc. recently announced a partnership in which they will collaborate to create open unified-communications solutions based on VoIP. The two companies have agreed to jointly fund and cooperatively conduct research focused on secure wireless networks and real-time open unified communications in the short term as well as work together in the long-term to create comprehensive vertical industry collaboration solutions to drive business process optimization for key market segments such as telecommunications service providers, financial services and digital health care.

Additional components of the agreement call for the two companies to establish joint market development efforts focused on the enterprise and service provider sectors. The overall goal of the joint effort is to demonstrate real-time communications solutions for business process optimization using Intel architecture including Intel dual-core technology and rack-mounted servers, and the HiPath 8000, as well as OpenScape from Siemens.

The first step is to demonstrate the OpenScape platform running applications such as Personal Portal, Unified Communications, Video and Voice Conferencing and Mobile Clients. Intel and Siemens expect to present findings and display the first wave of technology solutions developed at the Intel lab to selected customers by the fourth quarter of 2006.

The Intel lab also will act as a center for the optimization and integration of products from independent software vendors and other third-party systems to work with the new open-unified communications VoIP technologies. Additionally, Siemens and Intel plan to jointly optimize and prepare Siemens software portfolio based on Intel dual-core technology and Intel virtualization technology to provide highest-performance scalability and flexible capacity for future performance growth regarding user updates and functional additions to be rolled out worldwide.

Intel Corp. www.intel.com
Siemens Communications Inc. www.usa.siemens.com

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