Unified Communications tag
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Polycom UC Intelligent Core Platform Supports TIP Standard - Interoperable with Cisco
June of last year I wrote about how Cisco had to adopt the open source TIP protocol before the EU would approve Cisco's acquisition of Tandberg: An interesting back story behind the Cisco acquisition of Tandberg is that Cisco had...
Hosted Microsoft OCS/Lync Provider Supports Direct SIP Trunking
Direct SIP trunking has existed since OCS 2007 R2, however, WorkSpace Communications claims to be the only hosted Microsoft OCS/Lync Provider to support direct SIP trunking in a "hosted" environment. Even the more recent version Microsoft Lync cannot do direct...
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) Adds Microsoft Lync Support
According to BlackBerry's BlackBerry Enterprise Server Add-on product website, support for Microsoft Lync is coming soon. In the footnotes it says "Support for Microsoft Lync Server will be available in an upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service Pack." It will be...
ProtoSphere 3D Virtual World Combines Microsoft Lync, VoIP, Collaboration, & Social Media
ProtonMedia's ProtoSphere combines Microsoft Lync, VoIP, collaboration, & social media features to bring a 3D virtual world to life, enabling the enterprise to more easily interact and collaborate. One of their competitors is Avaya's (formerly Nortel's) Web Alive, which I...
Microsoft Lync Unified Communications "14" Training Kit
Microsoft Lync has launched, so now what? How can you as a developer get in on the action? Well, Microsoft just released a training kit that provides deep technical training on all aspects of the Lync Server 2010 and Exchange...
Dialogic Releases Survivable Branch Appliance for Microsoft Lync Server 2010
A simple software upgrade for Dialogic 4000 Media Gateway Series (launched in 2007 with OCS 2007 support) adds Branch Office Connectivity and Survivability for Microsoft's Lync Unified Communications platform. This is a key component to Microsoft's strategy of a...
New Solution Enables Microsoft Lync to Talk to Land Mobile Radio users (VHF, UHF, P25, etc.)
One of Microsoft’s partners, Twisted Pair Solutions, maker of WAVE software now supports Microsoft Lync. WAVE Lync Communicator extends Lync by adding push-to-talk connectivity between office-based workers and their mobile worker colleagues who use two-way radios and smartphones. WAVE Lync...
Microsoft Lync Mini-review
Rich Tehrani and I were in NYC recently checking out Microsoft's latest UC offering, Microsoft Lync, which officially launches this week. I've been busy testing it out using some virtualized images Microsoft gave me, so haven't had time to write-up...
Avaya IP Office v6.1 Launches
Avaya, Inc. today released Avaya IP Office Release 6.1. Avaya IP Office is the company’s flagship communications solution for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The new version delivers a host of business collaboration and customer service enhancements that can improve...
Texas Instruments TNETV1072 processor Supercharges voice experience Optimized for Microsoft Lync
Texas Instruments claims that their TNETV1072's C64x+ digital signal processor (DSP) core provides "exceptional high-definition voice and wideband acoustic echo cancellation capabilities offering richer voice quality to its users." The chip is targeting and is specifically optimized for Microsoft Lync....
ITEXPO up 50% with 216 Exhibitors
Some great news about TMC's ITEXPO that I wanted to share. ITEXPO has experienced phenomenal growth year-over-year. Vendor participation for ITEXPO West increased almost 50 percent, and 216 exhibitors issued almost 400 news announcements from the show floor, detailing new...
ooVoo and Wave2Wave Announce One-Stop-Shopping Hosted Web, Email, & Video Conferencing
ooVoo announced a partnership with Wave2Wave Communications this morning. The goal of this collaboration of two communication services is to give Wave2Wave customers a one-stop-shop capability for data, voice, web hosting, E-mail and video conferencing.Here's the news: WAVE2WAVE AND...
Goodbye Microsoft OCS Hello Microsoft Lync!
Last week I wrote an article titled "Microsoft Lync 2010 - New Product? Or New OCS Name?" based off of a couple new downloads on Microsoft's site I found via Twitter. When I saw something called Microsoft Lync on Twitter...
Microsoft Releases some Updates for Office Communications Server 2007 R2
Microsoft just released some patches/updates to Office Communications Server 2007 R2. First up is KB 968802, which includes the following updates: loadTOCNode(2, 'moreinformation'); Update for Application Host 967832 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967832/ ) Description of the update package for Communications Server 2007...
Verizon Business Trials Cloud-Based Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service
Verizon Business takes aim at the hosted unified communications space using Cisco's UC and collaboration solutions. Hosted UC is going to be a fast growing market segment, so this is a smart move by Verizon Business. Interesting that they chose...
Enterprise Unified Communication, VoIP & TDM Equipment 2010 (1Q10) forecast report
Infonetics Research released the 1Q10 results from its first quarter 2010 (1Q10) Enterprise Unified Communication, VoIP, and TDM Equipment forecast report. In it they point to how Cisco and Avaya battle for supremacy in enterprise telephony market with Avaya closing...
Sangoma and HP Partner on UC Platform
I saw a release a couple of weeks ago about Sangoma entering into an OEM relationship with a "major computer and networking equipment supplier", which really piqued my interest since I'm a Sangoma telephony card fan. The release however doesn't...
Alteva's Hosted OCS 2007, Exchange & Sharepoint Offers Comprehensive Hosted UC
Alteva, a unified communications hosted solution provider recently announced a partnership with Microsoftand Broadsoft to provide a true hosted Unified Communications (UC) solution to small businesses. Alteva has connected their hosted voice and messaging services with Microsoft Communication Services...
Unified Communications and VoIP Research Report for 2009/2010
New reports from Infonetics that I thought I'd share. They discuss how hosted VoIP services and unified communications will increase and they talk about capital expenditures on enterprise VoIP equipment. One point I'd like to highlight is they stated "Service...
FaceTime Vantage - The Ultimate Unified Communications Compliance Tool
As I have mentioned in the past, controlling and monitoring Skype usage in the enterprise is very difficult. It is Skype's ability to work on any network, regardless of the types of NAT, proxy, firewall, or intrusion prevention systems...
AudioCodes SPS Brings Microsoft OCS Features to Legacy SIP Phones
Some very interesting news from AudioCodes with the launch of AudioCodes' SIP Phone Support (SPS) for Microsoft Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS). AudioCodes is well known for their VoIP gateway products - well think of SPS as a gateway...
IceWarp Unified Communications Server 10 Review
I tested and reviewed IceWarp Unified Communications Server for TMC's Unified Communications Magazine, which will be published very soon. I was very impressed with the product and thought I'd share my test results here. Check it out... IceWarp Unified...
Avaya IP Office 6.0 Released
Today, Avaya IP Office 6.0 was released bringing additional new features to this tried and true SMB phone system. I reviewed Avaya IP Office back in 2004 and it certainly has come a long way since then. Avaya claims...
Skype for SIP Beta Now Open!
Skype today announced that their Skype for SIP beta program is now "open" to everyone. I was invited to their private beta to test it and have been pleased with the results so far. Though if you read my article...
Run Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Virtualized
According to Microsoft, Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can now be deployed onto Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, or onto any virtualization solution that is a certified partner through the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certified partners. Running OCS 2007 R2...
