Siemens Showcases Value of Enterprise Class Voice and Unified Communications in the...

Siemens Showcases Value of Enterprise Class Voice and Unified Communications
in the Cloud at VoiceCon

Public cloud demo running on Amazon Web Service illustrates value of open,
standards-based, software approach to voice and UC and potential impact of new
"pay-as-you-go" delivery model

WHERE & WHEN:VoiceConOrlando, March 30 - April 2 Booth # 601

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070904/SIEMENSLOGO)

WHAT: Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN), will be illustrating the future
of enterprise class voice and unified communication (UC) with a booth (#601)
demonstration that shows the Siemens OpenScape Voice and OpenScape UC
Applications running in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
environment. This proof-of-concept is part of Siemens' ongoing commitment to
explore innovative new ways for partners and customers to adopt best-of-breed
UC applications that meet their business goals.

Because Siemens has designed and built the OpenScape UC Server and OpenScape
Voice solutions on OpenSOA Web services standards, they are uniquely
positioned for deployment in cloud computing environments. Working closely
with Amazon Web Service (AWS), Siemens has already determined, based on
testing, that the solutions are compatible with the Amazon EC2 environment. In
addition, OpenScape UC Server and OpenScape Voice are designed to be vendor
agnostic and to allow for open integration into other 3rd party cloud
applications, opening the future possibility for embedding communication in
Amazon hosted business process applications.

WHY: For organizations with limited capital budgets and resources, this new
"pay-as-you-go" model has the potential to help eliminate or limit traditional
barriers and costs associated with adopting new software-based voice and UC
solutions. By making them available as Web services through the Internet,
customers can avoid the need to invest in additional infrastructure, which can
preserve their capital funds, and help to reduce administrative and operating
costs and increase their corporate asset efficiency.

About Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group)
The SEN Group is a premier provider of enterprise communications solutions.
More than 14,000 employees in 80 countries carry on the tradition of voice and
data excellence started more than 160 years ago with Werner von Siemens and
the invention of the pointer telegraph. Today the company leads the market
with its "Open Communications" approach that enables teams working within any
IT infrastructure to improve productivity through a unified collaboration
experience. SEN Group is a joint venture between the private equity firm, The
Gores Group, and Siemens AG and incorporates Siemens Enterprise
Communications, Enterasys Networks, SER Solutions, Cycos and iSEC. In fiscal
2008, The SEN Group generated revenues of approximately 3.21 billion Euros.

About Amazon Web Services
Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all
sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you
can requisition compute power, storage, and other services-gaining access to a
suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them.
With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or
programming model makes the most sense for the problems you're trying to
solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term
commitments. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and
Amazon CloudFront.

Note: Siemens and OpenScape 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.
Media Contacts:
Holly Hagerman
Connect Public Relations
(801) 373-7888
hollyh@connectpr.com

/PRNewswire -- March 30/

SOURCE Siemens Enterprise Communications