VCSF09 Preview: Brent Kelly Workshop
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Deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 or IBM Lotus Sametime 8.x in Multi-Vendor Telephony Environments E. Brent Kelly, Ph.D. [email protected] Wainhouse Research, LLC www.wainhouse.com CHOICES IN UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS 1 © 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified Communications
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Brent Kelly of Wainhouse Research previews his upcoming VoiceCon San Francisco workshop, "Choices in Unified Communications," comparing Microsoft OCS and IBM Lotus Sametime.
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© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified Communications
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Deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2or IBM Lotus Sametime 8.x in Multi-Vendor Telephony Environments
E. Brent Kelly, [email protected]
Wainhouse Research, LLCwww.wainhouse.com
CHOICES INUNIFIED COMMUNICATIONSSOLUTIONS
© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified Communications
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Tutorial Outline
Unified Communications Definitions
Strategies for Unified Communications
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Architecture
Integrating Telephony into Office Communications Server 2007 R2
Microsoft UC Clients
IBM Lotus Sametime Architecture
Integrating Telephony into Sametime 8.5
Sametime Unified Telephony
Sametime UC Clients Analysis, Conclusions,
Opinions
Part 1 Part 2
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What do you do… If you have a homogeneous
communications environment, you can Use that vendor’s UC tool Use Microsoft OCS or IBM Sametime
If you have a heterogeneous communications environment… then what? Can use Avaya Aura, Nortel ACE, Siemens
OpenScape, … The market is choosing IBM or Microsoft
Microsoft and IBM provide not just similar, but the SAME functionality across telephony and mobility environments!
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Enterprise Voice Architecture:PBX in Front
Mediation Server
PSTNNetwork
Enterprise PBX(TDM or Hybrid)
IP or DigitalPhones
Communicator Clients ActiveDirectory
Gateway
Mediation Server and the gateway can be single box or separate.
Gateway Providers•Aculab•AudioCodes•Cisco•Dialogic•Ferrari•NEC•Nortel•Nuera•Quintum Technologies•Tango•VegaStream
EnterpriseOCS
Deployment
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Multivendor Deployment
TelephonyGateway
SIP
PSTNNetworkIP or Digital
Phones
Vendor 1IP PBX
Analog orDigital Phones
SIP
Vendor 2Legacy
PBX
VP
VP
SIP
Telephony ApplicationServer
Telephony Control Server
Gateway
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Additional Topics
Server Operating System Options LDAP Directory Options List and Street Costs OCS and Sametime Futures Deployment Considerations
Please join us at VoiceCon San Francisco 2009where we will discuss choices in Unified Communicationsfocusing on Microsoft OCS and IBM Sametime
