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CUCM 6.1 and OCS R2 Direct SIP Document

Published on August 31st, 2010 by in Cisco, Lync, Microsoft

A good resource if you are looking to configure a Cisco Call Manager 6.1 with OCS R2 for Direct SIP. Goto technet document

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Unified Communications enabling multi language IM Conversations

Fire up the UC use case folder.  Chris over at his blog has detailed a fantastic looking app that integrates Bing Translator with the Communication Server “14″ platform.  This allows IM conversations to be translated into 32 different languages.  For further details go take a look at Chris’ blog post. This has got me thinking as to

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What’s new in Sametime 8.5.1

Published on August 30th, 2010 by in IBM

IBM continue to invest in their Sametime product line.  The Lotus User Group are giving a webcast on the 14th September to brief everyone on what’s new in the 8.5.1 Sametime release. Sametime blog is here A reminder from our energetic LotusUserGroup.org community and the Virtual User Group program: join Lotus product managers Rob Ingram and

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Phone Numbers: Dying?

Published on August 30th, 2010 by in UC News

A recent TechCrunch guest poster Nikhyl Singhal states the phone number is dying out?  After using a UC system for almost 12 months now I can totally agree with Nikhyl.  Dialling numbers seem an alien concept.  Either my contact is available via a simple click or if they are external I place them in my

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TeleHealth Solutions chosen by UK Government

The purchasing arm of the UK government recently awarded a teleheath framework agreement to TeleHealth Solutions who are a UK company supplying technology and consulting to the Health sector who require telehealth services. Take a look at TeleHealth Solutions here

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UC Use Case: Selling to A Government Agency

Again not normally a big fan of these types of video, they tend not to pitch at the right level. But this one is quite good, of course there is the standard corporate look and feel but don’t let that distract you from the central message that deploying UC can enable significant and tangible benefits within your

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Google Talk and Gmail integration

If anyone has any doubts that Google aren’t making a major push into the UC market place TechCrunch highlight how Google are just about to launch Gmail and Google Talk integration.  This is another clear sign that Google want to attack Skype in the consumer market and Microsoft/Cisco et al in the business market. I

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Silly but Quite Funny

Published on August 25th, 2010 by in Microsoft

I don’t normally like the arguments between vendors but this video is quite funny and the message to Cisco is loud and clear – unify your Unified Communications product range.  Until you do you will be open to this type of attack from your competitors.

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AT&T Adding VoiP Support to Enterprise

Published on August 25th, 2010 by in UC News

AT&T yesterday announced that their enterprise customers can take advantage of integrated VoiP solutions when they take private IP VPN from AT&T.  This makes a great deal of sense for customers who would like to experiment with VoiP services on an existing network platform.  The press release makes special mention of OCS SIP trunking. AT&T* announced today

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Telemedicine and Unified Communications

Unified Communications – especially presence, skill search, interactive real time applications and video – can and will revolutionise health care. It’s great to see that everyday their are articles related to the investment in Telemedicine across the world. UC can reduce the cost of providing health care and provide faster and wider access to specialist

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