Siemens ICN - HiPath Solutions Brochure

Siemens ICN HiPath Solutions Brochure Spread 1 Demand for greater access to information is driving a communications technology evolution. Charles Darwin could not possibly have anticipated the speed at which communications technology would evolve. His decades of study chronicled eons of evolution. Today, change occurs in a few short years; sometimes even in a matter of months. But where Darwin noted the proliferation and branching of species, communication technology is evolving into a broader portfolio of solutions, while at the same time converging in the way those solutions are delivered. The result is a single network that integrates voice, data, video and image information, and delivers a myriad of new communication choices. It also provides value by leveraging your infrastructure investments. More important, these solutions maximize the lifetime value of your relationships with customers, and improve the productivity of your workers, even when they're both on the move. As with any evolutionary process, the need to adapt or perish is driving the change. Businesses have a greater need to manage more with less, to differentiate products and expand markets globally. Technological advances like increased bandwidth, improved security and multimedia capabilities, and the simultaneous convergence and proliferation of communication solutions provided by IP are helping businesses survive and thrive. These technological advances will allow you to take the communication capabilities you've grown so accustomed to in your office, and extend them beyond those four walls, to wherever you want or need them. Just as amazing as where technology is heading, is how easy it is to get there with Siemens' HiPath Enterprise Convergence Architecture. HiPath offers the only architecture available today that gives you a flexible, affordable, reliable and rational migration path to integrated, IP-based communications. We designed HiPath applications using open standards. So you can choose from a wide range of voice-data convergence solutions, in areas that include multimedia CRM, mobility, messaging and business over IP applications. Open architecture provides a high degree of interoperability. It allows your business voice/data applications to work with your existing systems and infrastructure, and facilitates an easy evolution from circuit-switched to packet-switched IP. This cost-effective approach lets you deploy next-generation applications at your own pace, while protecting the investment you've made in infrastructure, as well as saving money on support costs. CHOICES: We provide a wide range of solutions, including circuit-switched, IP and hybrid, with a full portfolio of industry-leading applications and services. They offer you global reach, backed by local expertise. EVOLUTION: We're providing evolutionary technology at a pace that also approaches revolutionary. But you don't have to make all-or-nothing or now-or-never decisions. You can buy today's technology knowing that it can be upgraded with tomorrow's advancements when you're ready. VALUE: Our solutions are not only very cost-effective, they provide value to your business. Aside from not having to reinvest hundreds of thousands of dollars in new applications and infrastructure, you won't have to invest in the time and labor needed to change all those applications and ensure the new ones work.