The Nortel Adaptive Application Engine makes meeting the demands of the NGN 2.0 world simple. With the Adaptive Application Engine, service providers can extend voice and multimedia communications into the rapidly expanding Web IP application environment. Nortel’s industry standards-based Open Programmability Environment enables service providers to create new applications using the Adaptive Application Engine and deliver new, differentiating services to market quickly and easily. By simplifying the development process, service providers are able to increase profitability by leveraging the same investment across a much wider customer base. Also, the Adaptive Application Engine ensures that services are independent of the IP access technology, giving providers the ability to deliver a consistent service set across multiple broadband IP networks.

• A comprehensive Class 5 residential and SMB IP voice and multimedia feature set
• Multiple hardware-agnostic deployment options 
• Expanded scalability from hundreds to millions of subscribers
• An Open Programmability Environment that enables developers to create new, differentiating features
• Support for all network configurations in a single release including standalone SIP application server, in conjunction with Communication Server 2000 IP softswitch and IMS compliant application server
• Seamless upgrade path for both Communication Server 2000 and Application Server 5200 customers