About NEC Sphere
Company Overview
NEC Sphere Communications is a leader in software-based enterprise telecommunications, and is the first to deliver IP PBX technology as a business application for your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
NEC Sphere is the first to deliver Service Oriented Communications (SOC) software technology as a business application for SOA in IP telephony. NEC Sphere is the winner of many industry awards, including the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Differentiation & Innovation.
Founded in 1994 by telecommunications visionary and serial entrepreneur, Charles W. Pearson, Sphere Communications has a rich history of leadership and innovation. At NEC Sphere, we believe that enterprise telecommunications should be delivered through an open, software-based IP PBX solution that integrates with your business processes and gives you the flexibility to choose the phones and other communications tools that fit the way you work.
Tokyo based NEC Corporation, acquired Sphere Communications Inc.; a U.S. based company specializing in service oriented unified communications software technology in October 2007. The acquisition provided core technology for new SOC solutions and has enabled NEC to accelerate the growth of its global enterprise business.
A cornerstone of the NEC Sphere value proposition is to offer our customers a wide range of choices for their telecommunications devices. Ultimately, this approach provides users with the greatest flexibility at the lowest possible cost of ownership. NEC Sphere utilizes a certification process that ensures that NEC Sphere Certified devices offer an appropriate level of quality and dependability for our end users.
Today, the award-winning NEC Sphericall IP PBX is in use by all types of enterprise, education, government and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) organizations in over 15 countries around the world. NEC Sphericall IP PBX is revolutionary in its design and was awarded the patent for packet-based PBX systems.
In addition, NEC Sphere provides application developers with the NEC Sphericall Web Services Software Developers Kit (SDK), enabling communications to be easily integrated with a wide range of business applications through web services technology within the framework of SOA.
NEC Sphere invests in ongoing research and development to continuously enhance its NEC Sphericall IP PBX. Through its standards-based open-systems approach to enterprise communications, NEC Sphere continues to optimize its software leveraging the ongoing advancements and cost reductions of enterprise servers, gateways, IP phones and related communications end points.
NEC Sphere continuously expands its universe of certified Alliance Partnerships to offer our customers flexibility and choice.
With NEC Sphere, you can deliver the most flexible, scalable, reliable and cost effective IP PBX solution available.
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global customer base. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electronic devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide. For additional information, visit the NEC home page at: http://www.nec.com. NEC Sphere is headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
