CHOICES INUNIFIED COMMUNICATIONSSOLUTIONSDeploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2or IBM Lotus Sametime 8.x in Multi-Vendor Telephony EnvironmentsE. Brent Kelly, Ph.D.bkelly@wainhouse.comWainhouse Research, LLCwww.wainhouse.com1© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified Communications

Tutorial OutlineUnified Communications DefinitionsStrategies for Unified CommunicationsMicrosoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 ArchitectureIntegrating Telephony into Office Communications Server 2007 R2Microsoft UC ClientsIBM Lotus Sametime ArchitectureIntegrating Telephony into Sametime 8.5Sametime Unified TelephonySametime UC ClientsAnalysis, Conclusions, OpinionsPart 1Part 22© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified Communications

What do you do…If you have a homogeneous communications environment, you can Use that vendor’s UC toolUse Microsoft OCS or IBM SametimeIf you have a heterogeneous communications environment… then what?Can use Avaya Aura, Nortel ACE, Siemens OpenScape, …The market is choosing IBM or Microsoft 3© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified CommunicationsMicrosoft and IBM provide not just similar, but the SAME functionality across telephony and mobility environments!

Enterprise Voice Architecture:PBX in FrontGatewayEnterpriseOCSDeploymentActiveDirectoryCommunicator ClientsMediation Server and the gateway can be single box or separate.IP or DigitalPhonesMediation ServerGateway ProvidersAculabAudioCodesCiscoDialogicFerrariNECNortelNueraQuintum TechnologiesTangoVegaStreamPSTNNetworkEnterprise PBX(TDM or Hybrid)4© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified Communications

Aculab

AudioCodes

Cisco

Dialogic

Ferrari

NEC

Nortel

Nuera

Quintum Technologies

Tango

VegaStream

Multivendor Deployment5© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified CommunicationsTelephony ApplicationServerVPSIPVPTelephony Control ServerSIPSIPVendor 2LegacyPBXTelephonyGatewayVendor 1IP PBXPSTNNetworkGatewayAnalog orDigital PhonesIP or DigitalPhones

Additional TopicsServer Operating System OptionsLDAP Directory OptionsList and Street CostsOCS and Sametime FuturesDeployment Considerations6© 2009 Wainhouse Research LLC. – Analysis and Information on Unified CommunicationsPlease join us at VoiceCon San Francisco 2009where we will discuss choices in Unified Communicationsfocusing on Microsoft OCS and IBM Sametime