Nortel Ships New Release of Cornerstone Unified Communications Solution.

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Communication Server 1000 Release 6.0 Delivers Key Enhancements; Tops Competitors in Energy Efficiency

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 07, 2009) - A new software-centric, feature-rich release of the Nortel Communication Server 1000 (CS 1000), the enterprise foundation for communications and telephony-based unified communications (UC), is now available to businesses worldwide. With this latest release, 6.0, CS 1000 provides even greater simplicity, resiliency, security, and openness. Initial results of independent comparisons of CS 1000 release 6.0 and competing products also find that the Nortel(1) (OTCBB: NRTLQ) solution is up to 40 percent more energy efficient.

Ensuring 'always-available' communication services is a key factor for Bellevue Public Schools(2) in Nebraska, but cost concerns rank high as well. "Like most education institutions, we have to work with increasingly tight budgets, so we need …