Nortel Shows First OCS Gear At Tech.Ed Print E-mail
Written by Adam Gosling   
Wednesday, 08 August 2007
Attendees Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference on the Gold Coast week be able to check out the fruits of Nortel's VoIP collaborations with Microsoft when the company demonstrates the first of its unified communications solutions to ‘natively' integrate with Microsoft's upcoming Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 platform.

An privilege of cooperating with Redmond is that Nortel's IP PBX s and Multimedia Conferencing products will not require special gateways or hardware to work with the new Microsoft Comms server which will be released later this year.

This week will be the first time Nortel has shown off the capabilities of these new products for prospective Australian customers to see.

"The solutions we're showing at Tech.Ed include the next wave of products from our alliance with Microsoft and are based on the continued development of Nortel's proven hardware infrastructure solutions and Microsoft's ubiquitous desktop software platforms," says KirstenGilbertson, Microsoft Business Manager, Nortel ANZ.

"We've engineered a level of integration between Microsoft's OCS 2007 and Nortel's IP PBX that currently is not matched in the industry which translates in real terms to ease of deployment when migrating IP telephony networks to unified communications."

Nortel will also demonstrate a range of advanced SIP handsets, developed by LG-Nortel for Microsoft's OCS 2007, and Nortel's Secure Always-on Networking solutions that support the companies' unified communications platform.

The demonstrations will run across a live network based on Nortel equipment designed specifically for unified communications applications. Nortel's new CS 1000 release 5.0 is the first hardware platform to provide native integration with Microsoft'sOCS 2007, which will give enterprise customers around the world a consolidated VoIP solution that further improves service reliability, enables better security for VoIP calls, and simplifies deployment and management through the use of industry standard hardware and software.

Nortel's CS 1000 is a server-based, full-featured IP PBX, providing the benefits of a converged network, advanced conferencing applications, and more than 750 telephony features. Microsoft'sOCS 2007 is the next-generation unified communications platform enabling seamless communication between Microsoft Office applications and other networked applications and hardware - including IP handsets, laptops and SIP-enabled mobile devices.

www.nortel.com

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