New - Free OCS Tutorial "Co-existence Via Dual Forking" - Microsoft's OIP-Open Interoperability Program Pries Open the PBX

OCS Forum announced today its weekly tutorial on OCS - Part 1 of 2 - OCS-UC-SIP-OIP - Alphabet Soup Creates PBX-OCS - "Co-existence Via Dual Forking" - Microsoft's OIP-Open Interoperability Program Pries Open the PBX.

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Here are the details of the tutorial, in other to create not just better Unified Communications applications but unified switching now being called software powered voice, Microsoft created the OIP-Open Interoperability Program to:
- Develop Industry-Class Telephony Infrastructure that work seamlessly with OCS and Exchange UM-Unified Messaging
- Develop many solutions and new ideas
- Provide a forum for customers with setup, support, and use
- Test to enterprise-level standards for audio quality, reliability, and scalability
- Provide a means for scalable qualification of vendors

Also explained in the animated tutorial, the OIP program designed to provide PBX implementation/integration in the following configurations:
1 - Standalone via gateway
2 - Standalone via direct SIP
3 - Co-existence via dual forking
- Direct SIP + PBX is qualified against Microsoft Dual-forking specification
Co-existence via dual forking - dual OCS phone and PBX phone
4 - Co-existence via dual forking with RCC-Remote Call Control
- PBX supports Dual forking plus RCC-Remote Call Control and
- CSTA-Computer Supported Telephony Application

Here's how it might work using RCC-Remote Call Control a user uses their OC-Office Communicator client for Presence/IM and uses the OC softphone to control their existing PBX phone. For example, a user checks the presence for someone via Office Communicator and then clicking on that user to call - but then having their PBX desk-phone call the number (and use that device). Remote Call Control can also be deployed in conjunction with Dual-Forking using the "dual" calling of simultaneous or sequential ringing feature of "forking" to call the phone(s).

Next week's OCS tutorial will be "Parallel & Sequential Forking with First-Party, Third-Party Call Control and RCC."

OCS Forum provides classroom and webseminar training as well as a non-production environment for those IT departments without additional equipment, budget or time. This allows planners and users to test ideas, dial in and dial back out, IM file transfers, remote desktop sharing, video conferencing, run scenarios, break linkages and learning about new telephony features and network access. OCS Forum is also designed for both the system integrator/consultant who wants to learn about OCSR2 without having to build their own system as well as the enterprise customer who doesn't have the time, resources or time to develop one. OCS Forum Labs are designed to be "hands-on" or "over-the-shoulder" with experts available for Q&A and classes for feature-specific review.

The complete 5-day OCS course outline can be found here: http://www.ocsforum.com/news/Course%20Overview-2010k.htm

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