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Stock News Bot Date: December 11, 2006 03:00:00 AM
SI News Siemens' New OpenStage(TM) Family of SIP Phones Provide Personal Fixed Mobile Convenience with Style
BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Siemens Communications, Inc., today announced OpenStage™,
a new line of stylish IP telephones that bring an open communications
hardware platform to the desktop for the first time. With four different
models ranging from basic to advanced, OpenStage phones feature a
revolutionary new design that combines ease-of-use with PC functionality –
the biggest change in the telephone interface since the pushbutton phone
replaced the rotary dialer. In addition, OpenStage phones utilize
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to integrate wired, wireless and IP
communications to invoke new conferencing and call features such as “push
to conference,” desktop call management, “presence”
based calling, and more. The phones also support compatible third-party
applications through standards-based technology such as Java, HTML, WML
and XML so that they can become a key interface for everyday enterprise
business applications.
OpenStage introduces a touch sensitive wheel, called TouchGuide™
that allows easy access to the menu-driven user interface. The
TouchSlider™ controls the volume of the
handset, ringer and speaker phone, and there are touch sensitive pre-set
and programmable keys that provide easy access to frequently used
applications and features, such as address books, voicemail,
conferencing, and speed dial. OpenStage also lets you dial using
hands-free voice commands or a conventional keypad. It also features a
high-quality speaker phone that has been specially designed for
conference calls, and can operate multiple connections from the same
desktop.
“End-users in business environments are faced
with an ever-increasing variety of communications capabilities, devices,
interfaces and modes. Efforts to streamline and integrate these
capabilities, and to make the most of the latest in navigation
techniques, are welcome and will get the attention of buyers,”
said Jerry Caron, Vice President, Current Analysis. “Innovative
systems, such as the Siemens Enterprise Communications Open Stage
portfolio, make access to sophisticated capabilities easier and more
intuitive, thus inherently raising the relevance of the capabilities
themselves.”
Built-in Bluetooth support also lets you use a Bluetooth headset with
the OpenStage deskphone for hands-free operation. A V.Card exchange even
allows you to transfer contacts between compatible mobile phones and the
desk phone. A USB port is available to backup data, such as personal
contacts, as well as to connect to a wireless LAN using a WLAN dongle.
With network support, you can readily access a corporate phone directory
using an LDAP client, or gain public phone directory access using XML to
look up new contacts.
“OpenStage is the missing link that
integrates cellular, the Internet and the wired desktop,”
said Thomas Zimmermann, Chief Operating Officer of Siemens Enterprise
Communications. “We designed OpenStage to
deliver mobile convenience in a fixed device, providing instant access
that is always available and easy to drive. And this line of IP
telephones offer a new, rich communications experience that combines
style elements with the convenience of a mobile phone.”
OpenStage is designed to help organizations improve productivity and
streamline workflow by integrating system-wide communications into the
most-used office device, the telephone handset. Since it is an open
application platform, OpenStage gives IS departments and third party
developers more flexibility to write and deploy a wide range of
value-added applications that can make the phone a key interface for
enterprise applications and that can speed communications and workflow.
For example, Java applications that run on a PC, mobile phone, or PDA
can now be readily ported to run on the OpenStage phone. Using HTML, the
phones can be used as an interface for hosted applications, such as
timesheets, calendars, or public phone books. WML support makes it
compatible with applications developed for mobile phones, such as access
to traffic news. Support for XML also makes it easy to customize
OpenStage for any number of users, such as interfaces for building
control systems, responses to incoming calls or to create "tell me when"
applications that monitor for specific conditions. OpenStage is part of
LifeWorks, Siemens’ vision for open
communications and seamless collaboration across multiple protocols,
networks, and devices.
OpenStage phones will retail starting at $295. They will be offered
through Siemens Alliance partners.
About Siemens
Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and
engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $96 billion in
fiscal 2005. Founded nearly 160 years ago, the company is a leader in
the areas Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation,
Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water
Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate
headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $18.8
billion and employs approximately 70,000 people throughout all 50 states
and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in
the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG
and its subsidiaries employ 460,000 people in 190 countries. For more
information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com
About Siemens Communications, Inc.
Siemens Communications, Inc. is one of the world’s
leading vendors of Open Communications solutions for enterprises of all
sizes, enabling business processes to be more productive, faster and
more secure – with any device, network or
information technology infrastructure. The company is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Siemens AG with 17,000 employees globally and headquarters
in Boca Raton, Fla. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/communications
Note: Siemens, OpenStage, TouchGuide, TouchSlider and LifeWorks
are registered trademarks of Siemens AG or its subsidiaries and
affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
This release contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of
Siemens management. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate,"
"forecast," "expect," "intend," "plan," "should," and "project" are used
to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the
company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to
risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results to
be materially different, including, among others, changes in general
economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and
interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance
of new products or services and changes in business strategy. Actual
results may vary materially from those projected here. Siemens does not
intend or assume any obligation to update these forward-looking
statements.
