NEC Australia announces next evolution of UC with

personalised software suite

 Industry’s first personalised UC offering builds on NEC’s success in market

 SV8000 communication server series has over 4,500 customer in 18 months

Melbourne, 19 November 2009: NEC Australia today announced the next evolution of its UC
offering with the launch of a complete software platform, extending its strategy in the market and
sounding an additional challenge to IBM and Cisco. The UC700 desktop client is an enterprise
ready, functionally rich software application that allows users to individually customise their
communication preferences and presence.

The announcement gives NEC the most complete UC offering in the market with award winning
IP communications servers, middleware, feature rich desktop applications, third party integration
and first class in-country support.

Steve Woff, Unified Communications Business Manager NEC Australia said: “Unified
communications is all about increasing employee productivity through incremental savings. Our
publicly available modelling shows that really quite significant returns are available from properly
implemented UC strategies but the focus has to be on the staff – not just an extension of IM
technology. Our UC strategy has been developed with the user at the centre, building
functionality around them.”

“The Australian unifed communications services market was estimated to be worth $608.7 million
in 2008. UC Services will see good growth due to the complex nature of how various technologies
are interconnecting with one another. Technologies will no longer only span one single application
such as IP telephony. They will increasingly be integrated with other technologies such as video,
social networking and web 2.0 applications, mobility, contact centre and ultimately to the business
process applications. The main growth will be in areas such as implementation, managed
services and integration,” said Audrey William, Research Director Australia and New Zealand,
Frost & Sullivan

The latest addition to NEC Australia’s UC strategy comes on the back of strong sales of its
SV8000 communication server series announced 18 months ago, with over 4,500 customers to
date.

The UC700 client is a complete desktop suite providing:

 Industry leading presence management – individualised to different contacts. Appear
available to some contacts, not-available to others and easily define how you can be
contacted
 Integration with third party applications with embedded click to call functionality saving
time for users
 Integration with Microsoft Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes
 Unified messaging
 Single-number reach - with just one office number, users can be reached on any mobile
device, regardless of location or network service provider.
 Easy-to-use interface - the combination of UCE Mobility and UCE Desktop Client enables
users to remotely change their status and set contact rules for when to simultaneously
ring multiple phone numbers.
 Unified voicemail - with UCE Mobility, mobile users now have one voice mailbox to check
for messages - all unanswered calls are directed to their corporate voicemail making
voicemail retrieval a breeze. No more checking multiple voicemail boxes for business
calls.

"As organisations trim expenses and look to improve efficiencies in their business, they
understand that giving their employees access to mobility and collaboration tools can help fill in
the gaps," said Woff. "These enhancements to NEC’s Unified Communications suite, which are
the result of input from customers and dealers, bring new levels of productivity to the enterprise
that can result in bottom line savings."
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For media enquiries please contact:

Will Clarke
NEC Australia Pty Ltd
Tel: 03 92714172
Email: will.clarke@nec.com.au
Alec Stanwell
n2n Communications
02 9213 2305
astanwell@n2n.com.au

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About NEC Australia – www.nec.com.au

NEC Australia is a fully owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation. NEC Corporation operates in 44
countries around the world, employing over 140,000 people with annual revenues in excess of
$US45 billion. In Australia NEC researches, develops and deploys advanced IT/Network
communication solutions and services tailored to business and government. Its product range
includes IPPBX, Broadband Access Systems, Digital Signage, Systems Integration and Hosted
Application and Network Services amongst many others.