http://gigaom.com/2008/10/14/microsoft-pushes-voip-to-fend-off-cisco/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://gigaom.com/2008/10/14/microsoft-pushes-voip-to-fend-off-cisco/#comment-944486 Microsoft and HP Team Up to Take on Cisco Wed, 20 May 2009 01:01:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=24738#comment-944486 <p>[...] way data centers are being designed and provisioned, while the multiple ways to contact people make unified communications a huge opportunity. In this partnership, we’re seeing how Microsoft, HP and Cisco are reacting to these trends [...]</p> [...] way data centers are being designed and provisioned, while the multiple ways to contact people make unified communications a huge opportunity. In this partnership, we’re seeing how Microsoft, HP and Cisco are reacting to these trends [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/10/14/microsoft-pushes-voip-to-fend-off-cisco/#comment-905051 SharePoint Daily for October 15, 2008 - SharePoint Daily Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:53:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=24738#comment-905051 <p>[...] News StoriesMicrosoft Pushes VoIP to Fend off Cisco (GigaOM)Microsoft today unveiled its next-generation Communications Server product that will allow [...]</p> [...] News StoriesMicrosoft Pushes VoIP to Fend off Cisco (GigaOM)Microsoft today unveiled its next-generation Communications Server product that will allow [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/10/14/microsoft-pushes-voip-to-fend-off-cisco/#comment-904746 Chris Schmitt Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:25:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=24738#comment-904746 <p>Just from reading your description above I 'get' the Microsoft offering, however, your description of Cisco's play sounds like a bunch of gobbledygook. Having seen the integration of SharePoint and Communicator in action, it makes perfect sense for Microsoft to integrate its voice server product in this manner. It sounds like it could be a killer product.</p> Just from reading your description above I ‘get’ the Microsoft offering, however, your description of Cisco’s play sounds like a bunch of gobbledygook. Having seen the integration of SharePoint and Communicator in action, it makes perfect sense for Microsoft to integrate its voice server product in this manner. It sounds like it could be a killer product.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/10/14/microsoft-pushes-voip-to-fend-off-cisco/#comment-904731 The Cruft Of My Brain » Blog Archive » Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 - Has the war begun or is this just a skirmish Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:25:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=24738#comment-904731 <p>[...] Stacey over at GigaOM put up Microsoft’s press release about R2 today.  R2’s bringing some much needed feature depth to OCS including better attendant handling, very basic call queueing, dial in audio conferencing and some SIP trunking improvements.  However, this isn’t the “big one”.  R2 still misses some very critical components.  E911 is still missing.  Advanced call queueing and call center type functions are not there.  The SIP trunking is still incomplete.  And a full OCS implementation just requires too many servers! [...]</p> [...] Stacey over at GigaOM put up Microsoft’s press release about R2 today.  R2’s bringing some much needed feature depth to OCS including better attendant handling, very basic call queueing, dial in audio conferencing and some SIP trunking improvements.  However, this isn’t the “big one”.  R2 still misses some very critical components.  E911 is still missing.  Advanced call queueing and call center type functions are not there.  The SIP trunking is still incomplete.  And a full OCS implementation just requires too many servers! [...]

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