SIP-VoIP Alert: Microsoft OCS-Office Communications Server "Shock & Awesome"

October 16, 2007
Maybe not since 1-1-1984 with the breakup of the Bell System has there been such a time to re-think the telecommunications business.  Today, Microsoft officially enters the CPE-Customer Premise Equipment or hardware side of the telephony business.  Rumors abound that Microsoft will also, in response or anticipation of yet another threat from Google, get into the network side becoming a carrier or provider.  Given the cash on hand they could easily buy almost anything they want.
 
Meanwhile, I am at the Broadsoft Connections Conference (www.broadsoft.com) where VoIP and SIP is "Scaling New Heights" with lots of new products with video phones, call center tools, cool converged hardware products and exciting product products (www.sutus.com) and CRM integration with SalesForce.com (www.salesforce.com) and many others which I will write more about.
 
In response to Microsoft’s entry, there is not panic but great uncertainty when people were asked. For many its, more “shock and awe” than “shock and awesome.” For me, it’s the greatest time in a long time as new energy and ideas will emerge with new and cool SIP applications. In addition, efforts by the SIP Forum www.sipforum.org and its many members like Chris Gatch the CTO of Cbeyond will certainly accelerate “the need for speed.”
 
Meanwhile, back to the Conference, I leave you with some more details on Microsoft OCS-Office Communications Server. Office Communications Server 2007 supports three types of MG-Media Gateways. These MG's include basic, collated and advanced.  A basic media gateway requires the support of a Mediation Server to route a PSTN call to the Unified Messaging client. The basic media gateway requires the support of the Mediation Server to route the calls from the Unified Messaging clients to the PSTN.
 
A collocated media gateway resides (collocates) with a basic media gateway and the Mediation Server on a computer that is using the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. The collocated media gateway may reduce provisioning, installation and management costs when compared to the other types of gateways.
 
An advanced media gateway has the features of the basic media gateway and the Mediation Server. An advanced media gateway does not require a separate Mediation Server to handle the signal and to translate media that is necessary to route a PSTN call to the Unified Messaging client.


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