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NEC Sphere Communications (News - Alert) (NEC SC) and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) are integrating their select technologies to provide National Security departments with VoIP and 3D Dynamic Geographical Views, declared NEC (News - Alert) SC recently.

NEC SC’s expertise lies in delivering Service Oriented Communications (SOC) solutions via IP phones, text messaging, and multiple simultaneous conference calling over different platforms. SOC’s are software designed and driven. These stay away from old private branch exchange ideals of only automatically and digitally managing calls by providing features that allow two-way data exchange with other applications. It is this multi-functional approach that permits integration with SAIC’s software.

In this collaborative effort, SAIC delivers its Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) product called GeoViz. It provides 2D, 3D and 4D geographic visual aids of regions as desired by national security agencies such as the department of defence and department of homeland security. SOA, in a similar way to SOC, allows different software to communicate with each other, defines and separates each service, and give users the freedom to reuse them to create either mission, or user, defined operational pictures.

These modified and focused scenarios are then distributed within the government agencies for a more controlled balanced and systematic approach for tackling emergency situations. Either the hierarchy within departments, or differently functioning staff, allot their own status flags to the screen images. These are viewed across participating systems and provide valuable insights regarding the stages of the operation. Modification tools are available within the Web browser and are user friendly GUI’s with simple single point-and-click activation.

Deemed as geospatial collaboration, this SOA is reported to be the current popular technology for government agencies involved with disaster management and prevention. "GeoViz customers can now securely and reliably collaborate in emergency response scenarios without having to think about dialing, radio channels, and other complexities - at a time when instant communications is imperative," said Todd Landry (News - Alert), senior vice president of NEC Sphere Communications.