ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union has begun deploying UNIVERGE unified communications infrastructure and applications from NEC Unified Solutions Inc. of Irving, Texas.

NMEFCU has been a NEC customer for 25 years and had been running a NEC digital PBX system since the 1980s. The new system features the UNIVERGE NEAX 2400 IPX system with FUSION Call Control Signaling, which allows the system to network between the $829 million CU's headquarters and 12 branch locations.

Also included are IP phones and Windows-based unified messaging, allowing voice, e-mail and fax messages to be retrieved from a single mailbox.

“By migrating our communications infrastructure to IP, we simplify the management of our systems and save costs by eliminating a T1 line at nearly every branch location,” said Kevin Murphy, vice president of information technology for NMEFCU.