What is the Alcatel OmniPCX Office Internet solution? Alcatel OmniPCX Office is an easy-to-use, comprehensive, all-in-one Internet solution that provides small and medium-sized businesses with Internet access, e-mail and Internet-based communications in a safe, controlled and cost-effective way. The solution is composed of integrated components, making it easy to deploy and manage. Key components include an Internet access router, a certified firewall with filtering rules, a Web proxy for precise access control, a Web cache server to accelerate Web access, an e-mail server that supports a unified messaging solution, a secure Internet-based remote access function using IP Virtual Private Networking (VPN) and an intranet server to improve internal information sharing.   In a nut shell... OmniPCX Office is the new generation of Alcatel communication servers for SMEs. The technical choices of OmniPCX Office mean that a single architecture can cater for all manner of requirements encountered in SMEs: It can act as the company PBX/IP-PBX for SMEs that require a state-of-the-art voice communication solution with the best feature/price ratio. The company communication server integrating voice/data/Internet is the solution for SMEs for which the Internet is a major communication resource and which want to benefit from convergence (integration of the various media, as in unified messaging), The cost is lower than deploying separate voice, data and Internet solutions. The OmniPCX Office architecture lets an SME enhance the system as requirements change, simply by adding new elements (boards, extension subracks and software licenses). It is thus an open-ended, future-proof solution. OmniPCX Office is the convergence solution for SMEs, satisfying all voice, computer data and IP/Internet communication requirements while meeting the needs for simplicity and efficiency, which are so crucial to these businesses and their partners.