Anglicare Australia Selects Siemens Enterprise Communications for Voice and Data Networking

ANDOVER, MA, Aug 17 (MARKET WIRE) --
Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group) today announced that
Anglicare Australia, an Anglican Church-based network of advocacy and
charity organizations caring for people in need, is leveraging the
company's seamless voice and data connectivity to provide IT
infrastructure and Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony for its 1,200 employees
across 46 locations in South Australia. Using a combination of SEN
Group's IP telephony and Enterasys wired and wireless networking
solutions, Anglicare Australia provides cost-effective, reliable
connectivity to its care providers and staff, empowering them to better
serve Southern Australia's most at-risk population of residents.

To replace their end-of-life network and telephony systems, Anglicare
evaluated a number of leading network vendors and ultimately chose SEN
Group based on several criteria, including ease-of-use, reliability,
scalability, security, interoperability, support for IPv6 and total cost
of ownership.

"Before the SEN Group's solutions were in place, our network
infrastructure was in a bad state -- inefficient, static, difficult to
manage and extremely expensive to support," said Daryl Eckermann, IT
manager for Anglicare Australia. "We were in need of a next-generation
network that would provide the foundation for data and voice
collaboration for our many locations, including wireless remote
connectivity for traveling staff, and most importantly, easy management
capabilities for our small IT staff."

Today, Anglicare's data and voice network, powered by SEN Group, enables
data collaboration, remote connectivity and reliable VoIP service,
optimizes productivity for care providers and administration, and has
already provided a significant cost savings on telephony services.

"Until we installed the HiPath 3800 solution, we didn't realize how many
site-to-site phone calls were being made across the external telephony
system and how much those calls were costing us," Eckermann said. "Once
the deployment was complete, we saw almost immediate savings on our phone
bill, which was unexpected. Our original return on investment (ROI)
projection on the telephony segment of the new network was five years.
We've already revised that figure to less than three years before the
project pays for itself."

Enterasys C-Series and B-Series switches for infrastructure and Enterasys
wireless solutions for remote connectivity empower the new Anglicare
network to prioritize and secure voice traffic in 46 locations, including
all its aged care facilities, emergency assistance centers,
rehabilitation centers, suicide and grief counseling hotlines and
special-needs child care centers. The new network provides reliable
support for business-critical applications such as clinical care
management software, e-mail, a company intranet, quality management
database and operations software such as finance, payroll and fundraising
management. Traveling caregivers specializing in home-based outreach can
now rely on secure, remote connectivity, while counselors leverage the
robust VoIP solution for 24/7 availability. Nursing staff in Anglicare's
aged care facilities use the Enterasys' convergence-optimized wireless
solutions for wire-free patient care zones to help them manage medication
dispensing and keep resident care plans protected. An IT team of just
five manages the network and telephony infrastructure, using the
integrated Enterasys Network Management Suite (NMS), which delivers
visibility and control to the centralized operations team.

"The nature of work we do demands absolute voice and data network uptime,"
Eckermann said. "If a glitch on the network were to result in the loss of
voice service, or a breach of sensitive client data, the results could be
disastrous. We've seen employee productivity increase significantly since
the deployment. Since implementing the integrated SEN Group solution, we
haven't experienced any degradation of voice quality, or any security
issues with our data."

About Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group)

The SEN Group is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise
communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security
solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify
communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration
experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables
organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through
easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments,
delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the
company's OpenPath(R) commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk
and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The
Gores Group and Siemens AG, SEN Group companies include Siemens Enterprise
Communications, Cycos, and Enterasys Networks. For more information about
the SEN Group or Enterasys please visit www.siemens-enterprise.com or
www.enterasys.com.

Note: Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. is a trademark licensee
of Siemens AG. HiPath, OpenOffice, OpenScape and OpenStage, are registered
trademarks of Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. or its
affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Contact:
Barry Cioe
Enterasys Networks
1-978-684-1525
bcioe@enterasys.com

Media Relations
Michelle Barry
BridgeView Marketing
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michelle@bridgeviewmarketing.com

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