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Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Extended Communication Server
Overview
Today SMBs want to increase their employees' productivity and reactivity by giving them communication and collaboration services they can use when on the move. Each person must be able to benefit from his or her professional environment for sharing information and communicating, whether they are in the office or traveling. Now you can access your e-mail, manage your diary, share your contacts, consult your files and use business communication services, wherever you are.
The Extended Communication Server is a solution for communication, collaboration and complete, simple mobility to meet the essential needs of SMBs. Designed for SOHOs and SMBs, this flexible solution enables communication and collaboration in mobility! This is an integrated solution, easy to deploy and may be linked with the Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Office. It may be also fully integrated with existing network infrastructures.
Alcatel-Lucent Extended Communication Server is available in two different editions and offers an array of associated software packages.
Alcatel-Lucent Extended Communication Server platforms
- Alcatel-Lucent Extended Communication Server Compact Edition (up to 25 users)
- Alcatel-Lucent Extended Communication Server Premium Edition (up to 250 users)
Software Packs for Alcatel-Lucent Extended Communication Server
- "Eye-soft Suite" included on each platform provides system base, easy remote management, backup, update and allows easy management of the company's network (LAN, WAN, DHCP server, VPN,....). It also includes shared and secured Internet access with firewall, authenticated proxy and Web hosting.
- "Collaboration pack", provides a wide range of services to share information across the company: contact, calendar, files, email, news.... Thanks to the "Virtual Desktop" all employees can access their emails, shared calendar and contacts from anywhere through an Internet connected client. This pack also includes Alcatel-Lucent Connector for Microsoft Outlook® which allows employees to access emails and also to retrieve all personal, group and company contacts registered on the Eye-box and shared calendar, using the Microsoft Outlook® messaging client.
- "Unified Communication pack", is a voice-data convergence solution based on the Alcatel-Lucent Extended Communication Server and Alcatel-Lucent's OmniPCX Office communications system. This software pack is designed to integrate Alcatel-Lucent's telephone services into the enterprise IT infrastructure and to offer new applications that improve company's performance. A unified messaging application can be used by all users to access their emails and voice mails from any PC connected to the internet. This pack also includes 75 PIMphony TEAM soft-phone licenses and nomadic mode with a click-to-call feature.
- "Mobility pack", offers a Mobile Virtual Desktop to travelling employees. The best and most convenient way to retrieve all the company's information (emails, contacts, company & personal directory and calendar, ....) through a mobile device relying on a secure connection as at the office.
- Business Partners Options Pack
Alcatel-Lucent Extended Communication Server solution includes 2 business partners options:
- Kaspersky Labs® anti-virus software that protects email messages and attachments,
- Optenet's URL filter that controls both URLs and content to make sure that the Internet is used securely and appropriately.
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Benefits
With Alcatel-Lucent Extended Communication Server, SMBs employees benefit from :
Collaboration tools
Shared and secured Internet access, shared calendar, personal, group and company contacts management, file sharing
Unified communication
Enrich e-mail with voice mail notification, click to call from the contact, manage the telephone services (voice mail, call forwarding, personal assistant)
Mobility
Allows nomadic employees to access their business critical data using mobile devices supporting GPRS, Edge, UMTS or Wifi.
Easy to
- deploy and install,
- integrate in an existing environment
- Automatic online-update
Features List
COLLABORATION
UNIFIED COMMUNICATION
MOBILITY
IT SERVICES
| COLLABORATION |
| Mail server |
> E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP and IMAP
- Inbox quotas, message size limit, absence message,
- Secure connection: TLS support
- Address aliases and distribution lists
- POP / IMAP remote account synchronization
- Relay authorization and authentication
- Statistics (incoming and outgoing traffic, viruses, spam)
> Filtering of message content:
- Anti-spam, message filtering, advanced rules, quarantining of SPAM
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| Virtual Desktop: a secure Web Interface |
> Authenticated and secure access from a browser (AES-256 bit SSL)
> User can select language (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish)
> E-mails
- Send / receive, composition, transfer, answer, spell-check, draft,
automatic address completion
- Parameter setting, filtering rules, absence message
- Dossier management
> Shared contacts:
- Personal, Groups, business directory
- Import / Export
- Phone call or e-mail composition
> Shared calendars:
- Personal, Group
- Participant notification
- Multiple diary view
- Time zone management
- Import / Export
> Shared files:
- Personal, Groups, company
- Transfer / downloading
- Dossier management
> Internet bookmarks management:
- Personal, Groups
- Import
> New:
- Groups, Company
> Search engine
- Document indexing, e-mails, contacts, calendar, files
Advanced communication services: see Unified communication
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| Alcatel-Lucent Connector for Microsoft Outlook® |
> Extended Communication Server shared contacts and diary, synchronized with MS Outlook®
> Selection of contacts and diaries to synchronize
> Use in connected and disconnected mode
> Automatic or manual synchronization
> Remote synchronization (secure connection)
* Outlook® 2003 or later
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| UNIFIED COMMUNICATION |
| User Features |
> Setting phone parameters
> Call Forwarding Management
- To voice mail
- To a number
- To a personal assistant
> Unified message system (e-mail, voice mail)
- Voice mail notification
- Transfer of voice mail to e-mail
- Voice mail access
> Activation of nomadic mode
> Direct call from a contact card
- From the Virtual Desktop
- From the Mobile Virtual Desktop
> Up to 75 Alcatel PIMphony Team
- Direct downloading of PIMphony Team from the Virtual Desktop
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| Administration |
> Automatic detection of Alcatel OmniPCX Office on the same network
> Assignment of an Extended Communication Server user to a phone set number
> Management of user name displayed on the phone sets
> Synchronization of modifications between Extended Communication Server and OmniPCX Office
> The Extended Communication Server directory controls the unified communication service
> Authorization of the mobility service from the directory
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| MOBILITY |
| Mobile Virtual Desktops |
> Secured access from mobile devices (PDA, Smartphone and mobiles)
- WAP 2.0
- AES-256 bit SSL
> User can select language (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish)
> E-mails (Send / Receive, composition, transfer, answer, etc.)
> Shared contacts:
- Personal, Groups
- Import / Export
- Phone call or e-mail composition
> Shared calendars:
- Personal
- Group
Advanced communication services: see the Unified communication
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| IT SERVICES |
| Administration interface via secure Web access |
> Authenticated and secure access from a browser (AES-256 bit SSL)
> User can select language (English, French and German)
> Assistant Initial parameter settings for simple fast start-up
> Delegated administration
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| Security and Network |
> Integrated router:
- DHCP server
- Shared Internet access, external router supported
- QoS Management
> DNS Server, DynDNS Client
> Firewall
- Protocol analysis, packet filtering NAT, DMZ
- Advanced security rules
> Authenticated proxy cache
> VPN IPSec
- Gateway to gateway, Nomadic mode
- Authentication server X.509, RSA, PSK keys 3DES encryption, IKE, MD5 - SHA1
> VPN PPTP
> Certificate, private key management (authorities, users, services)
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| System |
> Base directory on LDAP V3
- Support for LDAP remote access
- Import / Export
> Control panel
- Statistics, performance (web sites, FTP, e-mail, network, proxy cache, system)
- System alerts (disk error, detection of new component, etc.)
- Log file recovery (e-mail, proxy, sites web, system, firewall)
> Back up and restore
- On network sharing, a USB disk or the 3rd disk*
- Programmed backups
> Update: automatic or manual, by Internet, DVD-ROM*
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| Sharing of files and printers |
> Sharing of Samba file (user, group and company)
> Management of Management Domain controller, or member of a domain
or workgroup
- NetLogon Scripts and user profile management
> Sharing of printers and driver pre-loading
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| Web server and FTP |
> Hosting of Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites and management of secure SSL sites
> Languages supported: PHP5, PERL, Java
> Management of FTP sites in anonymous or guest mode
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Documents
Data Sheets:
ECS Brochure (PDF)
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