VCSF09 Preview: Brent Kelly Workshop

CHOICES IN
UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS
SOLUTIONS
Deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2
or IBM Lotus Sametime 8.x in Multi-Vendor Telephony Environments
E. Brent Kelly, Ph.D.
bkelly@wainhouse.com
Wainhouse Research, LLC
www.wainhouse.com
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© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified Communications

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
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Microsoft and IBM provide not just similar, but the SAME functionality across telephony and mobility environments!

Enterprise Voice Architecture:PBX in Front
Gateway
Enterprise
OCS
Deployment
Active
Directory
Communicator Clients
Mediation Server and the gateway can be single box or separate.
IP or Digital
Phones
Mediation Server
Gateway Providers
Aculab
AudioCodes
Cisco
Dialogic
Ferrari
NEC
Nortel
Nuera
Quintum Technologies
Tango
VegaStream
PSTN
Network
Enterprise PBX
(TDM or Hybrid)
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Multivendor Deployment
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Telephony Application
Server
VP
SIP
VP
Telephony Control Server
SIP
SIP
Vendor 2
Legacy
PBX
Telephony
Gateway
Vendor 1
IP PBX
PSTN
Network
Gateway
Analog or
Digital Phones
IP or Digital
Phones

Additional Topics
Server Operating System Options
LDAP Directory Options
List and Street Costs
OCS and Sametime Futures
Deployment Considerations
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Please join us at VoiceCon San Francisco 2009
where we will discuss choices in Unified Communications
focusing on Microsoft OCS and IBM Sametime

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