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Siemens Debuts The Affordable optiPoint(TM) 410 Family Of Modular, Multi- Protocol IP Telephones To Save Enterprises Time And Money In Managing Changing User Needs

Submitted by: Nancy Harlan, US Marketing Manager, Siemens Enterprise Networks

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For less cost than similar competitive offerings, enterprises from small to large can now take advantage of all the plug-and-play flexibility built into the Siemens optiPoint 410 family of high-fidelity, multi-line IP telephones to help them simplify matching end-user needs to business requirements. This new line of Siemens IP telephones can interoperate with any other SIP-supported IP networks, as well as with SIP-enabled Centrex systems. In either case, companies can now consider the optiPoint 410 family of IP telephones and its benefits, giving them more choice and flexibility in selecting their IP telephone devices.

Great care has been taken to provide the industry's highest quality voice transmission in the Siemens optiPoint 410 telephones. One enhancement is the use of conference-quality speakers for hands-free calls. Another is the use of the G.722 codec that provides 7 kHz of wideband voice transmission, more than twice the 3.3 kHz delivered by conventional phone systems.

Acoustic research 1 has shown that wideband transmissions can reduce speech ambiguities by as much as 90 percent, increasing conversational intelligibility and reducing listener fatigue. This also means callers can spend less time subconsciously unraveling what's being said and communicate more clearly and productively with each other.

The Siemens optiPoint 410 family is comprised of five telephone models including a full-featured entry IP telephone. To save increasingly precious desk space, all are multi-line capable, share a similar small-footprint form factor and are wall-mountable.

In their design, Siemens has continued its modular telephone architecture, providing enterprises with flexibility that brings them several important advantages:

A range of snap-in feature adapters and modules are available that include a Large Display Interaction Module (DSM), providing voice dialing, a virtual keyboard and a touch screen graphical user interface that provides a WAP-based Internet browser and LDAP access to corporate directories

Multi-protocol adaptability includes on-board support for SIP and Siemens CorNet IP. For quality of service, the phones support DiffServ and 802.1pq protocols. This range of industry protocols reflects Siemens adherence to a long-standing open-standards philosophy. Most importantly, they can help unleash the power of IP in all kinds of converged applications that can turn the optiPoint telephones into highly productive user clients.

All Siemens optiPoint 410 models support the recently approved IEEE 802.3af standard that provides line-power via Ethernet, thereby eliminating the need for separate, plug-in power supplies and without locking enterprises into proprietary, line-powering mechanisms. The clients also support Cisco's proprietary power of Ethernet protocol.

For ease-of-use, four models of the Siemens optiPoint 410 family of telephones come with wide-angle, easy-to-read LCD display screens.

In addition, the Siemens optiPoint 410 Large Display Interaction Module (DSM) enables enterprises flexibility in deploying large displays only to those users that require them. It offers an open Java platform and toolkit for custom applications that can be easily developed and tailored to the customer's specific needs. Unlike competitive solutions, the Siemens optiPoint 410 Large Display Interaction Module (DSM) allows users to stay on task when voice calls arrive because they do not have to toggle the display to access the voice information and programmable keys; the telephony functions are always available on the telephone's display.

1 N.R. French and J.C. Steinberg, "Factors Governing the Intelligibility of Speech Sounds," The Acoustical Society of America Journal, 19(1) (1947):90.