SCS - fully featured SIP based IP PBX from Nortel

Nortel’s Secure Router 4134 now supports SCS (Software communication system- fully featured SIP based IP PBX) functionality through a blade.
The Secure Router 4134 Server Module with SCS delivers a complete unified communications solution for enterprise sites of up to 250 users. It effectively integrates two products – Nortel’s Secure Router 4134 and Software Communication System (SCS) into a single, unified device.
The combined solution effectively integrates the following functions of Nortel’s SCS and the Secure Router 4134:
• SIP-based call server with support for a range of hard clients, soft phone and application plug-ins
• Full suite of UC applications including:
• Unified messaging
• Secure presence and instant messaging
• Audio and video conferencing
• Auto attendant (corporate and personal)
• Basic contact center capabilities
• Integration with Microsoft Outlook and IBM Sametime / Lotus Notes
• Communications-enabled business processes
• PSTN gateway
• IP routing
• Stateful firewall and IPSec VPN
• Wide-Area Networking (WAN) connectivity
• Ethernet switching with PoE

1. Standalone solution- can handle all of a business’s voice and data communications needs as an all-in-one “office-in-a-box” solution. It delivers all the call server, unified communications, PSTN and WAN connectivity.
2. Distributed Solution - can also be deployed as a “branch-in-a-box” solution as part of a larger distributed network with a centralized SCS server – leveraging the multi-site, multi-branch capabilities of SCS.