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Microsoft to Deploy Twisted Pair Solutions' WAVE Software to Enhance Global Security Operations in Three ContinentsSEATTLE --(Business Wire)-- Twisted Pair Solutions (www.twistpair.com), a pioneer in unified communications software built to open standards, today announced that Microsoft Corporation will deploy WAVE software technology in its Global Security Operations Centers (GSOC) in the United States, Europe and India. WAVE software will help Microsoft build mission-critical redundancy in to its global security operations by enabling communications interoperability between the different two-radio systems currently in use around the world, as well as provide dispatch console positions for GSOC operators. Microsoft GSOCs are responsible for all aspects of security in their facilities across the region. Security operations involve the management of a multitude of systems, ranging from building access readers and intrusion sensors, to elevator phones and panic alarms. Like the security operations for many large, multi-site organizations, Microsoft depends in part on two-way radios systems for its GSOC voice communications and these radio systems are typically different from region to region. These radio systems also have sometimes been maintained as silos in the IT or facilities department with no back end integration with user databases and no advanced collaboration capabilities that are now common with solutions such as Sharepoint and Office Communications Server. In order to add greater redundancy to its worldwide GSOC operations, Microsoft intends to provide communications interoperability between the different radio systems deployed around the world and WAVE software has been chosen to provide this unique capability. Once WAVE is operational by mid-2009, each of Microsoft's three GSOCs will have the ability to assume full control of another's security operations for whatever reason, with full communications interoperability between radio systems. Microsoft will also be able to leverage advanced Unified Communications and collaboration capabilities with a fully integrated console solution. "Twisted Pair's WAVE technology provides a powerful way for us to achieve greater redundancy for our global security operations and does so through very close integration with our own Microsoft Unified Communications solutions like Active Directory, Office Communications Server and Sharepoint," said Dermott Barry, Managing Director for Worldwide Public Safety at Microsoft. "By allowing two-way radios, cell phones, Stentophones and VOIP communication systems to seamlessly work together, WAVE adds a full suite of new collaborative capabilities to our Global Security Operations Centers." "Because of this deployment, Microsoft is able to deliver powerful radio to IT integration with their off-the-shelf collaboration systems that help extend the life of radio networks by making them interoperable and adding new capabilities," added Tom Guthrie, President and CEO of Twisted Pair Solutions. "Justifying the purchase of a whole new radio system in this economic climate is nearly impossible." Widely deployed by private, public and mission-critical organizations across the globe, WAVE is the industry's only pure software-based solution for integrating two-way radio networks into a wider unified communications environment. Leveraging IP networks as a unifying medium, WAVE connects workers who are using disparate and oftentimes incompatible communications technologies, including two-way radios, personal computers, cell phones and IP phones, into a single, interoperable and easily manageable communications system. The latest version, WAVE 4.5, supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), a compliance requirement for U.S. military and federal agencies, as well as offering an enhanced user interface and increased compatibility with Microsoft applications and platforms such as Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Office Communications Server and Sharepoint Server. Twisted Pair has also announced that it is adding WAVE support for Trident PassPort trunked networks and MOTOTRBO radio systems, as well as FSI for P25. Twisted Pair is a licensed developer of MOTOTRBO. About Twisted Pair Solutions, Inc. Twisted Pair Solution's award-winning WAVE software technology enables partners and customers to build and operate secure, highly scalable communications solutions in the world's most demanding environments. Recognizing that the best approach to solving the complexities of communications interoperability is to use standards-based software to unify diverse communications technologies, WAVE is trusted when communications is absolutely indispensable. Twisted Pair Solutions is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA with offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. Visit us at www.twistpair.com. |
