Sagem-Interstar to Launch Industry-Leading IP Fax Solution for the Cisco ISR

IP Fax Solution on the Cisco AXP - Powered by XMediusFAX(TM)

Sagem-Interstar's XMediusFAX FoIP solution is the first IP fax software platform to operate natively on the Cisco Application eXtension Platform (AXP), which resides within the Cisco ISR. It contributes significantly to streamlining costs, improving document communication, collaboration, and productivity, while providing more value to Cisco ISRs deployed worldwide in enterprises today.

The XMediusFAX software solution offers benefits such as:

-- Highly secure fax communication within the Cisco ISR environment

-- Routes sensitive documents to designated recipients and devices for easier access anywhere, anytime, in the office or outside

-- Facilitates compliance requirements (i.e., SOX, HIPAA, PCI)

-- Facilitating a distributed redundant fax architecture with central Web management

-- Eliminating the costs of traditional faxing (i.e. printing, paper, toner, maintenance, dedicated analog lines, fax hardware)

-- Reducing hardware footprint in the enterprise branch, eliminating single-purpose server hardware, thereby decreasing energy consumption - a green initiative

-- Lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

-- Easier deployment and administration with the XMediusFAX software-only solution (no expensive fax boards or third-party integration required)

"We wanted a Unified Communications solution that would provide us with better document communication records and traceability, specifically for faxes. Bottom line, we wanted to integrate the fax capability into our overall branch communication strategy. One of the unique things about the SAGEM solution running on the Cisco AXP is that it allows us to embed IP fax capabilities directly into our branch router. This optimizes performance, and gives us several cost advantages," said Luis Suarez, Director of Information Technology at H.I.G. Capital.

H.I.G. Capital is a Sagem-Interstar customer that successfully adopted a trial installation of the IP fax solution on Cisco AXP last month. As a global private investment firm with over four billion dollars of capital under management, H.I.G. Capital works in a very fast-paced global environment which handles legally binding, mission-critical documents for multi-million-dollar transactions.

The IP fax solution on Cisco AXP "provides us with access to fax documents anywhere anytime, no matter where our people are in the world, allowing us to secure multi-million-dollar transactions, while maintaining an audit trail for our records management requirements. This is critical to our business," added Luis Suarez.

"Sagem-Interstar's taking advantage of the Cisco AXP third-party hosting services on the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) adds industry-leading Fax over IP to an already comprehensive Unified Communications solution," said Dave Frampton, Vice President in Cisco's Access Routing Technology Group. "This complete solution delivers significant cost and performance benefits for mission-critical fax services in many industries, while facilitating highly secure communication, collaboration and regulatory compliance."

The IP fax solution on Cisco AXP can be integrated into the Cisco Unified Communications Manager, and is available on a variety of hardware options and a broad range of Cisco ISRs. It is also a solid fit for virtualization strategies since its boardless technology enables IT staff to efficiently combine and manage common resources for diverse applications, further enhancing IP Telephony and UC deployments.

For details on ordering the AXP platform and the Cisco AXP fax solution, please contact your local Cisco Reseller. For more information, please visit www.cisco.com/go/axp.

For more information on the XMediusFAX fax server solution, visit Sagem-Interstar:

www.faxserver.com/fax-server-software/xmediusfax/index.htm or www.faxserver.com/fax-server-software/xmediusfax/cisco_axp_e.htm

* Source: Davidson Consulting's Computer-Based Fax Markets Report (published Dec. 2007)

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Networking goliath Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is now opening its Integrated Services Router (ISR) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platforms to become Linux-based application server platforms.

"We really think that we're changing the way business models will be built in the branch," she said. Lasser-Raab isn't being overly dramatic, either. Cisco to date has sold more than 4 million ISRs and as such has a large installed base to target with the new application initiative.

Officially called the Cisco Application eXtension Platform (AXP), the new initiative includes both hardware and software for deploying applications on Cisco's routers. The AXP is available as both a module that can plug into modular Cisco ISRs as well as a daughterboard that can plug into a Cisco ISR motherboard.

On the software side, the core operating system of the AXP is Linux. Joel Conover, manager of network systems at Cisco, explained that that the version of Linux used is one that Cisco refers to it as Cisco Hardened Linux. http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1539