NEC Telephone Systems are extremely scaleable. Some models are designed for small businesses and small offices of larger organisations, typically incorporating key systems or all-in-one server solutions. Some focus on the requirements of intermediate-sized businesses, especially businesses that are expanding both in physical growth and in communications requirements. Some are designed to fulfil the needs of enterprise business customers, deploying over 24,000 ports with all their communications systems and networking needs.

For information on the following telephone systems and their handsets' features, please click on the following links :-

Electra Elite IPK
Aspire
NEAX 2400 IPX
 

ELECTRA ELITE IPK

The Electra Elite IPK, allows you to converge your voice and data networks, and enjoy the many advantages of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). It allows you to deploy traditional circuit-switched technology, VoIP, or any combination, all from one system. It is a powerful key system that can meet the ever changing communications demands of current businesses. Its unique compact design allows the system to be easily and quickly installed. The Electra Elite IPK system can grow with your business. You can easily and economically increase port size when necessary. The feature-rich Electra Elite IPK system provides the basic telephone functions and supports the following:

Automatic Call Distribution (ACD)
Automatic Number Indication (ANI)/Caller ID
Automatic Route Selection (ARS)
Centralized Voice Mail
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
Dialed Number Indication Service (DNIS)
Dterm Handset Cordless
Enhanced 911
Integrated Digital Voice Mail
ISDN-BRI and PRI Voice Trunks
K-CCIS (Networking)
Least Cost Routing (LCR)
Live Monitoring
Live Record
Multiline Conference Bridge
Multilingual LCD Indication
Multiple Music on Hold using CO Interface
PC Attendant Console
Unified Messaging
Uniform Call Distribution (UCD)
Voice over Internet Protocol Trunks (VoIP)
Wireless System
Optional 33.6 kbps Modem for Remote Programming and Maintenance

ASPIRE

The Aspire™ from NEC allows you to converge your voice and data network and enjoy the many advantages of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) while enjoying the hundreds of features you've come to expect from traditional digital/analog switching. It allows your firm to benefit from the potential cost-saving advantages of IP even if you're not ready to migrate to 100% IP Telephony immediately. That's because Aspire gives you a choice. You can deploy traditional circuit-switched technology, VoIP or a combination, all from one system, Giving you the freedom to adopt VoIP when and where you need it. Aspire provides peer-to-peer IP switching. “Peer-to-peer” switching means that the stations participating in a call are connected directly to each other through the IP network. The signals travel through the IP network but do not “go through” the switch as they do in traditional telephony. The fact that Aspire can function in and support a “hybrid” network with traditional digital/analog switching, IP/TDM/IP switching and pure peer-to- peer IP switching means that users can continue to utilise their existing equipment while they begin to phase in IP Telephony and lay the foundation for current and future networks. The feature-rich Aspire system provides the basic telephone functions and supports the following features:

 - Attendant Features
Assigned Night Answer (ANA)
Attendant Camp On
Attendant Position
Attendant Transfer
Automatic Hold
Dial 0 For Attendant
Split Hold (Line-To-Line Hold For Attendant)
 - VoIP Features**
Internal DHCP Server
IP Terminal - Automatic Firmware Update
IP Terminal - Automatic Phone Registration
IP Terminal - H.323 Phone
- Incoming & Outgoing Calls
- Hold & Transfer Of Calls
IP Terminal - Non Peer-to-Peer Connection
IP Terminal - Peer-to-Peer Connection
IP Trunk - H.323
- Basic Function
- Gatekeeper Router/Direct Connection
- Fax Relay
Layer 2 QoS
Layer 3 QoS (IP Precedence/DiffServ)
Networking by VOIP
Simple Internal Gatekeeper
VLAN Tagging
( ** = Future availability)

NEAX 2400 IPX

The NEAX® 2400 Internet Protocol eXchange (IPX), the newest member of the NEAX family, fuses existing NEC technologies with dynamic advancements in hardware and software to satisfy the most stringent system requirements.

NEC also introduces the next level of Internet Protocol (IP) medium -- peer-to-peer switching -- into the NEAX 2400. This capability allows the NEAX 2400 to provide all of NEC's networking services and Dterm Series E digital telephone features when deployed over an IP network.

Peer-to-peer switching means the stations participating in a call are connected directly to each other through the IP network. The voice signals travel through the IP network but do not "go through" the switch as they do in traditional telephony. The fact that the NEAX 2400 IPX can function in and support a "hybrid" network with traditional digital/analog switching, IP/TDM switching and pure peer-to-peer IP switching means the users can continue to utilise their existing equipment while they phase in IP Telephony and lay the foundation for future networks.

NEC's modular design, distributed processing, sensible migration, comprehensive network solutions and the ability to customise functionality to match specific business applications are just a few of the NEC benchmarks that the NEAX 2400 IPX builds upon.

The NEAX 2400 IPX provides over 780 service features that enhance productivity, reduce operating costs, and improve communications efficiently. Innovative modular hardware and software design allows the NEAX 2400 IPX to serve efficiently and grow incrementally over its entire size spectrum, ranging from 384 ports to over 24,576 ports.

The NEAX 2400 Internet Protocol eXchange has the ability to expand from its minimum configuration to its maximum capacity with virtually no loss of existing hardware. This unique expansion capability allows the system to grow in a cost-effective manner as the user's requirements grow. This system is truly unique in today's telecommunications industry.

By serving as the controller of an integrated information network, the NEAX 2400 IPX is able to integrate and enhance all forms of advanced information processing and management services. The NEAX 2400 IPX combines voice and data, store and forward, packet switching and many other advanced features.

The system also delivers advanced applications such as Fusion, CCIS and IP Networking, IP Stations (both IP enabled and peer-to-peer), Remote Switching, Electronic Tandem Networking, Centralized Attendant Service, Direct Digital Interface, Integrated ACD, Voice Messaging Integration, along with many other feature-rich capabilities via the Open Applications Interface (OAI). This reflects the philosophy of NEC Corporation to integrate Computer and Communications (C&C) technology, and makes it possible for the NEAX 2400 to provide both voice and non-voice services.

Proprietary digital instruments (Dterm) may be provided to increase system flexibility and eliminate the need for conventional multiple line stations with their associated control equipment and cable plant requirements.