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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:
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 DASS services are currently being withdrawn and, by the end of the upgrade programme in 2011/12, ISDN will be withdrawn.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 softwarr
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.
