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Nortel, Microsoft Add to Joint Unified Communications Line
- By Becky Nagel
- March 12, 2008
Yesterday, Nortel and Microsoft jointly announced four new unified communications
(UC) products designed to help bring together enterprise voice, data, e-mail
and other systems.
The products are part of the companies' Innovative
Communications Alliance, which now offers 10 products jointly developed
by both companies, the announcement said.
The four new offerings are:
"With these solutions, enterprises can now choose to deploy unified communications
via a customer premise solution, managed service solution, or hybrid of the
two, helping accelerate the pace of unified communications adoption," Ruchi
Prasad, vice president and general manager, Innovative Communications Alliance,
Nortel, said in a press release announcing the products.
According to the companies, these releases mean the partnership has now delivered
on all the products it originally promised when it was announced in January
2007. Both companies intend to continue to work together on new UC solutions.
"In the coming year, we will extend the scope of our unified communications
collaboration to include areas such as Contact Center integration and a mix
of hybrid and fully hosted UC solutions," commented Gurdeep Singh Pall,
corporate vice president, Unified Communications Group, Microsoft, in the same
release.
About the Author
Becky Nagel is the vice president of Web & Digital Strategy for 1105's Converge360 Group, where she oversees the front-end Web team and deals with all aspects of digital projects at the company, including launching and running the group's popular virtual summit and Coffee talk series . She an experienced tech journalist (20 years), and before her current position, was the editorial director of the group's sites. A few years ago she gave a talk at a leading technical publishers conference about how changes in Web browser technology would impact online advertising for publishers. Follow her on twitter @beckynagel.