The two companies have agreed to jointly fund and co-operatively conduct research focused on secure wireless networks and real-time open unified communications in the short term. In addition they will work together in the longer term to create comprehensive vertical industry collaboration solutions aiming to drive business process optimisation for key market segments such as telecommunications service providers, financial services and digital healthcare.
 
Additional components of the agreement call for the two companies to establish joint market development efforts focused on the enterprise and service provider sectors. The overall goal of the joint effort is to demonstrate real time communications solutions for business process optimisation using Intel architecture such as Intel dual-core technology and carrier class Rack Mounted Servers (RMS) from Intel and the HiPath 8000 and OpenScape from Siemens.

The first step is to demonstrate the OpenScape platform running Applications such as Personal Portal, Unified communications, Video and Voice Conferencing and Mobile Clients. Intel and Siemens expect to present findings and display the first wave of technology solutions developed at an Intel lab in the US to selected customers by the fourth quarter of this year.
 
Siemens has a strong commitment to this joint development effort and to ongoing collaboration with Intel to unlock the potential of our open unified communication enterprise solutions to a global ecosystem of third party independent software providers and systems integrators, says Thomas Zimmermann, president, Enterprise Systems, Siemens Communications.