www.tmcnet.com/1293.1
Microsoft Unleashes Unified Communications Platform
The key message from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
was that what is driving this initiative from Microsoft is
the need to let people be more creative through
software, not only through voice communication, but
integrating that with video, messaging, and
collaboration features. We're experiencing a
software revolution, Gates said, building on
what the communications industry has been
espousing for some time now, that it's really
about the applications and the software.
www.tmcnet.com/1294.1
Broadvox Achieves Highest Interoperability Certification with Objectworld
Broadvox announced it has achieved the highest level of interoperability
certification with Objectworld Communications. Beyond the standard
telephony services, Broadvox's SIP Trunking solution will also interoperate
seamlessly with the Objectworld Unified Communications Server to provide
business continuity during a crisis; it also offers dynamic load balancing and
unlimited geographical distribution eliminating or reducing the number of PRIs
and branch office PBXs.
www.broadvox.net
www.objectworld.com
www.tmcnet.com/1295.1
Siemens Brings Unified Communications to the SMB
Siemens Communications is extending Unified
Communications solutions to the SMB with its
new HiPath OpenOffice ME appliance,
specifically designed to bring rich productivity
enhancing features to businesses with between
20 and 150 employees. The OpenScape Office
suite of UC applications means is that SMBs no
longer need to be constrained by the limits of
their existing phone and messaging platforms.
Instead, the can enjoy the presence, mobility,
and collaboration features being introduces in
many larger enterprises.
www.tmcnet.com/1296.1
Alcatel-Lucent and Sagem Add FoIP to Unified Communications Solution
Alcatel-Lucent and
Sagem
Communications
have partnered to
embed Sagem-
Interstar's
XMediusFAX into OmniTouch UC, Alcatel-Lucent's Unified Communications
suite. The effort is directed specifically at those businesses that need to
integrate fax capabilities into their IP Communications environment. With the
new solution, users are able to send and receive faxes directly through their
email client, making them not only easier to send and receive, but also to track
and store, just like their normal emails.
www.alcatel-lucent.com
www.sagem.com
www.tmcnet.com/1310.1
Genesys Adds Key Telephony Capabilities to Microsoft OCS
Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories announced that its Enterprise Telephony Server
(GETS) will allow users of Microsoft OCS 2007 to leverage telephony-enabled presence and
control, in combination with new or existing telephony systems, to deliver advanced services
without replacing their infrastructure. The announcement is part of Genesys' continuous efforts
to make it easier for enterprises to link the phone and the PC without taking a "rip and replace"
approach to their existing infrastructure.
www.tmcnet.com/1297.1
GN Rolls Out Headsets Optimized for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
GN launched its Jabra GN9350 OC and Jabra GN9330 USB OC,
the first long-range wireless DECT headsets. The Jabra headsets
offer full compatibility with Microsoft Office Communicator
2007 with embedding wideband technology software
integration and remote call control.
www.tmcnet.com/1298.1
Quintum Tenors Deliver Plug and Play Unified Communications with MS
Quintum Technologies said its Tenor line of VoIP switches and gateways will provide
interoperability with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The New Jersey-based
company will offer a hybrid gateway that will provide a single box solution with an integrated
Tenor gateway and Microsoft
Mediation server, simplifying the
interface with Microsoft Office
Communications Server 2007. The
solution is designed to "easily
integrate" an enterprise's existing
voice and data network with
Office Communications Server
2007 with "minimal effort and
business downtime."
www.tmcnet.com/1299.1
ApplianX Gateway for Microsoft OCS 2007
In a major endeavor in effecting significant savings in
terms of cost, Aculab, a key contributor of enabling
technology as well as appliances for the
international communications market,
revealed ApplianX Gateway for Microsoft
Office Communications Server 2007. Apart
from providing valuable back up to an
array of global protocols and being trouble-free to
install and configure, ApplianX Gateway integrates the Mediation Server function
of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The merger of these operations in a single
ApplianX Gateway appreciably diminishes the entire cost as far as ownership is concerned.
www.tmcnet.com/1300.1
LG-Nortel UC Devices Optimized for Microsoft OCS 2007
LG-Nortel has introduced the LG-Nortel IP Phone 8500 series UC
devices customized for use with Office Communications Server
2007 and Office Communicator 2007. "The launch of Office
Communications Server 2007 brings the world exceptional
unified communications capabilities, and our IP Phone 8500
family includes innovative end-user devices for accessing those
capabilities with an ease of use that reflects LG-Nortel's mission
of providing customers with a great communication experience
anytime, and at any location."
www.tmcnet.com/1307.1
Securent Addresses Security Needs of Microsoft UC Solution
Securent says its EMS solution will ensure the security of business communications on
Microsoft's platform. In integrating with Microsoft, Securent is able to provide policy-based
control and visibility in to OCS 2007-based communications, allowing security teams,
compliance officials, admins, IT managers, and end users control over who and which devices
are authorized to communicate on the platform.
www.tmcnet.com/1302.1
Palm Supports New Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007
Palm has said Treo smartphones running Windows now
support Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007 in
a bid to improve instant messaging and presence on the
network. "Palm believes in Microsoft's vision for unified
communications, and enabling people to find and
collaborate with colleagues right from the Microsoft
applications they already know and use."
www.tmcnet.com/1309.1
Quest Software Supporting Microsoft Unified Communications Products
Quest Software announced it will release two new products in support of
Microsoft's Unified Communications initiatives. Quest MessageStats Report
Pack for OCS 2007 and Quest Password Manager will become part of Quest's
Unified Communications product set.
www.tmcnet.com/1303.1
Dialogic Rolls Out New Program at Microsoft Unified Communications Launch
Dialogic has rolled out an enhanced High Availability Media Gateway
Service Program, which allows its service partners to bring their own
support strengths to Dialogic's service and training offerings. "Because we
have high confidence that Microsoft unified communications software will
streamline communications for end users and increase operational
efficiency, Dialogic is making a significant investment to meet the total
needs of the system integration channel in support of the Microsoft
Unified Communications Launch 2007."
www.tmcnet.com/1304.1
TANDBERG Plans Interoperability with Microsoft OCS 2007
In a bid to bring its standard-based
products to the center of the UC market,
TANDBERG has announced plans to make its
full line interoperable with the newly
launched Microsoft Communications Server
2007. With the interoperability, it will
be possible to launch high definition video
communications right from the desktop - making it
easier to incorporate the use of video communications for everyday
business needs.
www.tmcnet.com/1305.1
Dell Dives Into Unified Communications
Continuing to offer simplified IT solutions to
customers, Dell is now taking a dive into Unified
Communications, announcing it is offering
customers a new solution to simplify the path to
unified communications through products,
partnerships and services. The new UC solution
from Dell brings together communications options
like email, fax, phone, video and the PC, and preintegrates
them for a "business-ready" solution, so
customers benefit from reduced complexity and
improved productivity.
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