Reliability is not an after thought, it's an integral part of the design brief. NEC can cut corners and time to market, by using off-the-shelf PC components and operating systems. But this is at the cost of reliability.
Aspire uses a 173 MIPS RISC processor similar to those used in industrial machine tools and passenger jets. Aspire telephony applications are controlled by an industrial strength embedded, multi-threading operating system. We use Windows 2000 or Linux for the less critical peripheral applications.

All this designed in reliability, is packaged in NEC manufactured rack mounted hardware, designed for ease of maintenance and upgradeability.

Manageability is simplified by browser-based system administrator and end user profile applications. SNMP allows integration into existing data network management systems.